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Solid and Hazardous Wastes
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This review paper looks at how the world handles trash, including plastic, food, and electronic waste, and warns that global waste could triple by 2100 if nothing changes. It highlights plastic pollution and microplastics as major threats to marine life and human health, and discusses laws like the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act aimed at better waste management and recycling.
This chapter is about waste generation and its management, with mismanagement of waste constituting a hazard to human and ecological health. Moreover, as an alarming human and ecological health portent, the World Bank forecasts that global waste is on pace to triple by the year 2100. The gist of the chapter is about the various forms of solid and hazardous waste and their impact on human and ecological health. This chapter discusses plastic waste, microplastics, food waste, electronics waste, municipal waste, and abandoned hazardous waste sites. Particular attention is given to the global challenge of plastic waste to marine life. Domestic and international policies purposed for waste management and remediation, including recycling, are discussed, with emphasis given to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
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