· Solid Waste. Digging up ore displaces huge piles of earth and rock. Processing the ore to produce metals generates immense quantities of additional waste, as the amount of recoverable metal is a small fraction of the total ore mass. In fact, the manufacture of an average gold ring generates more than 20 tons of waste.
· Solid waste is an integral part of textile manufacturing, and denim waste is composed of preconsumer waste (clean waste) and postconsumer waste (secondhand trash). Metal accessories such as rivets and zippers used in jeans have to be recycled properly. Download Download full-size image Figure 2.1. Problems of denim industry.
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A major Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade in 2014 significantly reduced the amount of electricity used in treating the town's wastewater. Other energy-saving initiatives have included replacement of the windows in the Wastewater Treatment Plant's administrative building, the use of programmable thermostats and a tankless water heater on the Town Hall campus, and the use of LEDs in
· Gold mining is one of the most destructive industries in the world. It can displace communities, contaminate drinking water, hurt workers, and destroy pristine environments. It pollutes water and land with mercury and cyanide, endangering the health of people and ecosystems. Producing gold for one wedding ring alone generates 20 tons of waste.
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· Norwegian strives to process and land ashore nearly all solid waste materials produced aboard. Aggressive sorting and processing of solid waste aboard has led to recycling rates of over 30 percent of materials. Incineration of burnable materials, when permitted, greatly reduces the
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Particularly in peri-urban areas, this leads to wild dumping of garbage even within human settlements. Solid waste is not only a major risk for the local environment and people’s health it also causes considerable amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane. Poor neighbourhoods resolve the waste problem by themselves
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· Solid waste is an integral part of textile manufacturing, and denim waste is composed of preconsumer waste (clean waste) and postconsumer waste (secondhand trash). Metal accessories such as rivets and zippers used in jeans have to be recycled properly. Download Download full-size image Figure 2.1. Problems of denim industry.
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