Managed Waste Disposal
In
this day and age we are slowly moving away from the throw away excesses of
previous decades; which saw huge amounts of perfectly reusable materials being
dumped into landfill sites, and instead, a more careful and considerate
approach to the removal of our unwanted items by managed waste disposal.
There is now a concerted effort in society to move towards sustainable waste management,
whereby we look at what we no longer have a use for ourselves, and try to
ensure that it has another life in a different environment. The principles of
this practice of managed waste disposal are to ‘reduce, re-use
and recycle.
We now no longer look at our World as a place full of riches, there for us to exploit, instead we are coming to the realization that our resources are limited and need to be managed carefully. Already there are certain rare elements that are used in our everyday technology, such as smart phones, that only have reserves of a few years left if we continue to use them up at our current rate. Rarity is pushing prices up to a level which is making the recovery of these elements from un-repairable equipment financially viable.
We now no longer look at our World as a place full of riches, there for us to exploit, instead we are coming to the realization that our resources are limited and need to be managed carefully. Already there are certain rare elements that are used in our everyday technology, such as smart phones, that only have reserves of a few years left if we continue to use them up at our current rate. Rarity is pushing prices up to a level which is making the recovery of these elements from un-repairable equipment financially viable.
Sustainable Waste Removal
One area of sustainable waste removal that is rapidly growing centres on house and office moves. These can generate a large amount of what we used to call waste, which would normally have gone into a skip, and then landfill. The most obvious are large pieces of furniture that are either tired or out of date, pieces of electrical equipment that are no longer used or not fully functional, and all the other bits and pieces that are simply not worth the effort of packing and un-wrapping at the other end. There are now removal companies that will take these off our hands and ensure that they end up where they will prove most useful in.
The possible recipients for your unwanted items are numerous; charities are very grateful for items we can no longer find a use for, domestic furniture can be given to young people setting up their first home after leaving foster care, industrial chairs and tables can find a second use in other projects. Small electrical equipment can either be repaired and shipped abroad to the third world or recycled for its component materials, clothing is either sold on or recycled for its fibres, and in a sustainable world almost everything has a re-use if we can find someone to get it from A to B.
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