waste management Flashcards
(13 cards)
In SG, amount of waste disposal has increased ___ folds in the past 40 years
7
in 2017, 7 million tons of waste generated, can fill ___ Olympic pools
15000
global material footprint has been rising since 1990. (___% increment)
100
how much natural resources was used to satisfy an individual’s needs in 1990, and 2017?
1990 - 8 metric tons
2017 - 12 metric tons
___% of e-waste is recycled.
20
rich ___________ countries rely on ten of billions of tonnes of raw materials and hundred of billions of hours of human labour every year from the _________ countries
northern; southern
the global (north, south, east or west) is the dumping ground for e-waste
south
what is the production-consumption chain?
extraction - production - distribution - consumption - disposal
5 major driving forces of consumption are
Economic factors → income
■ Growing middle class in China
Social factors → human interaction like family members, friends, celebrities
Demographic factors → age
Cultural factors → fundamental values: needs, wants, preferences, perceptions and behaviours
Psychological factors → behaviour
■ Consumer attitude towards a product and brand image
_____ introduced mandatory packaging reporting in 2020 and targets implementing a framework for managing __________ waste including plastics by 2025.
NEA; Packaging
NTU announced its 15 year sustainability emission plan. what is this?
to half the campus carbon emission, energy, and water use by march 2026 compared to 2011 baselines
In 2019, NEA and NTU did what?
built the waste to energy research facility to turn domestic waste into energy
in Oct 2018, what did NTU do to reduce plastic usage and waste?
NTU campus stopped issuing plastic bags for free in October 2018, saving a million plastic bags a year
