Waste management and Transport Flashcards
(26 cards)
problems with landfill
- Takes up a lot of land
- Ugly
- NIMBY
- Sites filing up and running out
- Contamination
- water pollution
Problems with Incineration
- Greenhouse gases
- Congestion
London’s waste management problems
- 3.4 million tonnes of rubbish
- £600 million cost (2010)
- 90% of products end up in landfill after just 6 months
- 75% of waste ends up in landfill sites
E waste
- Growing problem in the consumerist market today
- Potentially hazardous
- E waste in India could grow by 500% from 2007-2020
Basel Convention
1989
Meant to control the transfer of hazardous waste between countries
-WEEE sets targets for disposal of such waste
Cambridge waste
- £730 million contract
- state of the art mechanical biological treatment plant
- Recycles over 50%
- Spend £7 million or more on landfill still
Peterborough waste
- 300 000 old electrical items annually
- WEEE implement electrical appliance recycling programme.
- Holistic view to waste minimisation
- Items collected via take back scheme
- Reuse
- Recycle
Waste targets
- Targets for governments on reducing waste
- (reduce by 45% by 2020 from 2000)
- 50% recycled and composted of household waste by 2020
Why do we have waste targets
- Environmental benefits
- Less landfill
Plastic bag charge
- 5p
- 2010 6.3 million were used
- save £60 million in litter clean-up cost
- save £13 million in carbon savings
Rutland recycling
- 3 bins (grey, black and green)
- Each bin is collected every 2 weeks
- 59.1% of waste is recycled (11,665 tonnes)
What happens to Rutland’s waste
Grey- materials and recycling/ recovery facility in Leicestershire (sorted and bailed)
Green- Digby Farm, North Luffenham to be composted
Black- Eastcroft energy from waste facility (Nottingham)
Other sites for rubbish disposal in Rutland
- 18 recycling sites
- 2 Civil amenity sites
- Home composting (£8 bins)
Nairobi waste management
- Scavengers- collect rubbish (20 out of 800 tonnes) and sell bits on
- Children pick through organic waste for food or its given to livestock
What is the clean up Nairobi campaign
- Founded 1999
- Run by residents promoting waste reduction and compositing
- Recently collapsed due to management issues
Benefits if the clean up Nairobi campaign
- Improved health (less diaroehoa and malaria)
- Improved physical environment (Better drainage, more outdoor environments, decrese suicide numbers)
Location of Curitiba
- 1000km from Rio
- 2 million residents
- High education level
- developing country
Buses in Curitiba
-Integrated transport scheme
-Quick and cheap
-5 arterial roads
-Red, orange, green grey busses coded for routes
-500 x cheaper than building a subway
-Each bus takes 4000 passengers in one day
Bi-articulated bus lanes
Parks and urban areas in Curitiba
- Lots of green spaces
- Flood problems alleviated with lakes built
- Trees planted to limit flooding
- Industrial areas turned back into parks( stops slums forming)
- Sky scrapers given permission to build higher if they build green areas alongside
Curitiba waste
- Recycling since 1980s
- Smaller scale changes
- 2/3 of Curitiba’s waste is sorted
- Waste sorters get jobs
- Green exchange set up for low income families
What is the green exchange
- Garbage trucks turn up at slums which they cant get into
- You can exchange waste for food or bus tickets
- Good as Curitiba has a surplus of food from agricultural businesses
- encourages use of bus system
- Helps 3000 families a month
Other techniques used in Curitiba
-Mall in heart of the city is pedestrianised
Social problems caused by congestion
- Pollutants increase chest problems
- Longer commuting times means longer times away from families
- More cars on roads increase the number of accidents
- Traffic jabs increase road rage
Environmental problems caused by congestion
- Air pollution
- Noise pollution
- increased road buildings means destruction of greenfield sites
- Acid rain and greenhouse effect from air pollution
- HGV can cause vibration damage to structures
