How To Mitigate The Proliferation Of Hazardous Industrial Waste

By Carolyn Roberts


Human activity on this planet is increasing at a very fast pace. The increase in population means that demand for consumer goods also increases necessitating more production. This will lead to plant and factory expansion as companies strive to meet the demands for the consuming public. This is economics at work and with it is the dark specter of wastes. As a conscientious manufacturer, companies rely on hazardous waste disposal NY.

The early inhabitants of the planet did not have to deal with pollution and industrial wastes as we do today. Life was laid back then as the inhabitants needed only simple things. Technology was yet to be developed. Their main concern was survival. The trash they dealt with were natural. Fecal matter, dead animals, rotting plants. Things that nature to care of through bio-degradation.

Biodegradable materials are organic matters that naturally rots and decays through the natural process by which these are acted upon by protozoans, fungi, and bacteria. In this process, poisonous substances are rendered less poisonous or are even eliminated. This was the main waste eliminator during ancient times when humans first walked this planet.

As technology advanced, so did progress and this became manifested in urban areas. Studies would show that only a small land area holds the world population. This is essentially the urban area. This is where people congregate, where businesses are transacted and were factories operate. It is the hub of the economy and the heart of industrialization.

The entry of the industrial age came with some very serious problems. The most obvious one is how to deal with all the waste that accumulate human activities. The trash materials adversely affected the environment. Manufacturing and industrial giants churned wastes at a pace never before experienced. At the time these were just discarded over the rivers or channeled into oceans.

Businessmen during those times were unconcerned about what heavy industries and manufacturing plants were doing to the environment. They turned a blind eye for their only concern was making money. The government did not fare better as their only concern was getting hefty taxes. They were oblivious of what was going on. Such things as animal extinction, Fish kill, the disappearing forests, all these escaped their attention.

It was only during the twentieth century that serious studies were made regarding the effects of industrialization on the environment. This was the century of severe natural disasters when the La Nina and El Nino phenomenon was fully understood, and climate change came to be recognized as an effect of human activity. Today companies are now more environmentally conscious.

Governments the world over are also becoming conscious and concerned about the environment. All nations now have environmental protection agencies. Various legislation has also been enacted that serve to protect the environment with heavy penalties to offending companies. Overall, world population is more environmentally conscious than it had been in the past.

Such simple practice as waste segregation multiplied and magnified a million times can have a very big impact in controlling the proliferation of hazardous trash materials. Ordinary family members can contribute by just following basic sanitation and cleaning. Corporate owned heavy industries who are mainly responsible for all the hazardous wastes must exercise appropriate management of these.




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