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by Okoth Okoth | 04-02-2020 01:27
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The big question still remains, what about hazardous wastes? Or let's frame it this way, "what about your hazardous wastes? Many a time environmental activists and individuals fighting for a cleaner environment forget the impact of hazardous wastes to our ecosystem. Electronics, tyres and used oil freely find their way to the ecosystem with little concern from governments. We talk about negative impacts of improper and unsanitized disposal of solid wastes to the ecosystem without talking about hazardous wastes. Let us break them one by one: Electronic wastes (e-waste) Electronics such as computer monitor contain almost 1Kg of lead which is a cancerous component. We all know the effects of lead to the unborn and grown ups including damage to the nervous system. Used Oil Used oil finds its way to the environment from garages, they then join municipal sewer systems to treatment plants and a higher percentage to water sources. It makes it hard to treat waste water due to its complex components. Used oil contain carbons and lead from vehicle engines thus is a threat to human and animals lives. Tyres Tyres are hard to treat and recycle. When burnt they produce toxic gases to the environment which is a trigger to upper respiratory tract infections. Even burning them in cement kilns is not enough to manage them. Organize! Mobilize! Green Cheers! Viva!
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About tyres, I have noticed diys of reusing them. They can be used as furniture by creating ottomans, and gardens, used in play grounds as swings, used decoratively by plantiong flowers in them.
All in all we need to step up and do something right with what we have.
Posted 12-02-2020 15:48
Hello
I hope you are fine
Thank you so much for this report
Yours
Ishma
Posted 11-02-2020 14:32
Hello Okoth!!
It was a great feeling to go through your report and know about hazardous wastes and its consequences on human health and environment.Timely actions and initiatives is required to solve this problem as it holds an immense importance on the environment management.
Hope to learn more from you !!
Keep sharing such wonderful reports !!
Green cheers!!
Regards,
Jasmine Karki
Posted 08-02-2020 16:45
Hello Okoth
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about hazardous wastes
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 08-02-2020 15:36
Hello Okoth,
Thank You for writing such awesome and wonderful report .
Green Cheers from India
Regards,
Basanta Pandey
Posted 08-02-2020 13:55
Hello Okoth
Thanks for your information, over oil used in our environment must be stop, because its threat humans and animals in our plant, i am really agree with you
Keep writing the good article.
Posted 06-02-2020 13:47
Hey Okoth!
It's Lisa your mentor.
The creation of an excessive amount of waste is not the only problem that we have to resolve but managing them properly is also something that we should think about. I heard that in some of the developing nations, there are huge garbage piles nearby the poor villages and children living in those villages play in that pile of hazardous materials where they could get injured and get exposed to all these toxic materials. I was really shocked when I watched that. It's time that we take more time and energy in devising a proper way to manage these garbages!!
Great report dear:)
Posted 05-02-2020 22:22
hi,
thanks for the information about hazardous wasters. Some of these are our daily uses products too.we should be aware.
thank you very much.
Posted 05-02-2020 16:32
Thanks for the information
Posted 05-02-2020 06:51
Hello Okoth,
Greeting from Nepal,
You had made some of the good points here about the waste that are hazardous to both the environment and the human beings, so what we can do is just not using such a product as well as encourage other too about this,
Thanks for the informative piece of writing,
Keep writing and shining,
Green Cheers from Nepal,
Yours,
Sandhya
Posted 04-02-2020 23:32
Hello Okoth
I can see that some wastes that are easy to find are hazardous to both the environment and to humans. Maybe the best action we can take is not to buy the products that are made from hazardous materials. If that's too hard, at least we should be aware of the fact and put extra care when buying products with those materials. This report will help in sorting what wastes are really bad for the health.
Thank you for the informative report!
Posted 04-02-2020 16:56