Terrestrial Resource Plan

Environmental waste

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Solid Waste & Contents

2

Municipal solid waste #2

Paper, Paperboard #3 Yard Waste #4 Food waste Plastics metals #5 Rubber Leather glass and

wood. 6, 214 million metric

tons of waste

Controlling Solid Waste

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Source reduction

RecyclingCompostingWaste combustors

Resources needed

4

Time Partner companies

GreenScapes Support Communities Government Coal Combustion

Products Partnership B)

Educating the People

What we can do…

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Provide training on how and what to recycle.

Questions to be answered

Special meeting of progress that has been achieved

Challenges

6

Inconvenient Financially costly People will not

listen Not fast enough

Living in a Healthier Environment

7

  Less pollution Healthier lives Saving the world

References

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Axia College of University of Phoenix. (2008). Solid Waste.Retrieved November 3, 2008 from Axia College, Week Seven reading, aXcess, SCI275— Environmental Science Web site.

 U.S Environmental Protection Agency (n.d) Wastes - Non-Hazardous Waste - Municipal Solid

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