How Companies Can Help In Saving The Planet

By Joshua Rogers


Progress sometimes will make humans pay for it. Economic activity intensifies as the population grows and technology advances. Consumer product demand soars making business capacities expand to meet the rising demands. It definitely is in the urban areas where most of this happens and the by product is waste. Lots of it. This can only be negated with by hazardous materials management new York.

The negative effects of dangerous wastes on the human population and the environment have been studied in recent decades by researchers and scientists. These unwanted materials are mostly by products of heavy industries that have physical as well as chemical properties that contain poisonous substances, flammables, radiation, and other harmful elements.

These types of refuse are mostly generated by industry, mostly from factories and manufacturing plants. The most prolific among these are those that use chemicals, and these are the industrial giants. Petrochemical plants, pharmaceutical laboratories, steel plants, nuclear facilities, plastic and synthetic material production are but a few examples.

A microcosm of this problem is very visible in developing countries where dangerous refuse is not properly managed and documented. Left unchecked by governments which are either incompetent or corrupt, this will have a severe negative impact on the surroundings. Economic endeavors are mainly responsible for this as emerging markets are hastened their industrial development.

Residential and construction garbage also contribute to the degradation of the environment. Every day people use things and throw them away randomly. Junk materials that contain harmful substance are often seen piling up in street corners and in landfills. But these pale in comparison with those that are spewed out by petrochemical and pharmaceutical plants.

It is a fact that the underdeveloped and the developing countries are not the main culprits of the deteriorating earth condition. On the contrary, it is the first world countries, the industrialized nations who the most prolific generators of dangerous trash materials. Their wealth and fancy tastes have resulted in endangering biodiversity which in the end is counterproductive.

Researchers and scientists have made studies on this global problem and they have concluded that the best way to address this problem is through involvement. All stakeholders of the planet, which is practically the whole human population must get involved. Individual families, businesses, organization, associations, and governments have to join hands in addressing this issue.

Another danger that humans face today that is really difficult to address is the proliferation of nuclear plants both for civilian and military use. Unlike solid waste, radiation is unseen and its effect do are not visible and will take years to be felt, often passed on to the next generations. Used plutonium and uranium rods are very hard to discard. Radiation leaks resulting from natural disasters is a clear and present danger.

As one president of a third world country succinctly said, the first world nations are the culprits in making the environment what it is now. Yet these nations have the gall to impose restrictions on third world countries for a condition that is primarily the result of their industrialization. The truth is that it is Europe and America who are primarily responsible for the current ecological imbalance and climate change.




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