EP 152 - Waste & Waste Mgt: Environmental Intersection of our Consumption-based Culture & its Waste Generation
Virtually every resident, organization, and human activity in the U.S./the world generates some type of waste. Many different types of waste are generated, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, industrial non-hazardous waste, agricultural and animal waste, medical waste, radioactive waste, construction and demolition debris, extraction and mining waste, oil and gas production waste, fossil fuel combustion waste, and sewage sludge – and more including clothing waste. Waste generation, in most cases, represents inefficient use of materials. Once generated, wastes must be managed through reuse, recycling, storage, treatment, energy recovery, and/or disposal or other types of releases to the environment. Most municipal solid wastes and hazardous wastes are managed in land disposal units. For hazardous and industrial wastes, land disposal includes landfills, surface impoundments, land treatment, land farming, and underground injection. Jamil Admad with the UN Environment Programme and Adi Varshneya With the Global Alliance for Incenerato Alternatives talk with Host Bernice Butler to help us better understand how our consumption patterns are driving waste and its management. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support