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This document discusses solutions for reducing hazardous waste, including reduce, reuse, recycle, and compost. It defines reduce as consuming and throwing away less by purchasing durable goods and seeking less packaging. Reuse is repairing or donating items to reduce waste. Recycling reprocesses materials like glass, metal, and paper into new products. Compost is organic material used to improve soil quality by combining organic waste and allowing it to break down.

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PowerPoint - Reduce Reuse and Recycle

This document discusses solutions for reducing hazardous waste, including reduce, reuse, recycle, and compost. It defines reduce as consuming and throwing away less by purchasing durable goods and seeking less packaging. Reuse is repairing or donating items to reduce waste. Recycling reprocesses materials like glass, metal, and paper into new products. Compost is organic material used to improve soil quality by combining organic waste and allowing it to break down.

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Module 04: Hazardous Waste Urban EcoLab

April 2021

PowerPoint - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle


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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

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Reduce
According to the US EPA:
—  Waste prevention, or "source reduction," means
consuming and throwing away less.
—  It includes:
¡  purchasing durable, long-lasting goods;
¡  seeking products and packaging that are as free of toxics as
possible;
¡  redesigning products to use less raw material in production,
have a longer life, or be used again after its original use.

Source reduction actually decreases the generation of


waste in the first place, so it is the most preferred
method of waste management and goes a long way
toward protecting the environment.

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Reuse
Reusing items -- by
repairing them, donating
them to charity and
community groups, or
selling them -- also reduces
waste.
Reusing products, when
possible and safe, is even
better than recycling
because the item does not
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before it can be used again.

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Recycle

—  Recycling takes materials that would otherwise


become waste and remanufactures them into valuable
resources. In addition, it generates a host of
environmental, financial, and social benefits. Materials
like glass, metal, plastics, and paper are collected,
separated and sent to facilities that can process them
into new materials or products.

—  Recycling is one of the best environmental success


stories of the late 20th century. Recycling, including
composting, diverted 82 million tons of material away
from landfills and incinerators in 2006, up from 34
million tons in 1990.

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Compost

— Compost
Compost is organic material that can be used as a soil
amendment or as a medium to grow plants. Mature
compost is a stable material with a content called humus
that is dark brown or black and has a soil-like, earthy
smell.

—  It is created by: combining organic wastes (e.g., yard


trimmings, food wastes, manures) in proper ratios into
piles, rows, or vessels; adding bulking agents (e.g., wood
chips) as necessary to accelerate the breakdown of organic
materials; and allowing the finished material to fully
stabilize and mature through a curing process.

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Reduces the need for chemical
fertilizers.
Benefits of Composting

Promotes higher yields of agricultural


crops.

Facilitates reforestation, and wetlands


restoration efforts by improving
compacted and marginal soils.
Cost-effectively remediates soils
contaminated by hazardous waste.

Removes solids, oil, grease, and heavy


metals from stormwater runoff.

Provides cost savings of at least 50


percent over conventional soil, water, http://www.flickr.com/photos/_sjg_/5472660657/

and air pollution remediation


technologies, where applicable.

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