Hazardous waste, good practices when managing it to stop climate change.

 

In cities like Delhi, more than one hundred thousand tons of domestic garbage are produced every day, more or less 37 million tons per year of urban solid waste thrown in landfills, according to Greenpeace, a change in the management of hazardous waste at an industrial level is necessary, to slow down climate change , reduce their production and at the same time recover those generated.

In this city, the treatment that garbage receives is reduced to leaving it in landfills or being incinerated, this generates serious damage to the Environment and therefore to the health of human beings, animals and vegetation, deteriorating life in general.

These practices when it comes to disposing of waste, either by decomposing it, burying it or simply leaving it in a landfill, causes the emission of thousands of chemical, harmful and dangerous compounds that filter into the air, soils or the water, endangering all forms of life on the planet.

On the other hand, there are a multitude of materials that must be treated with special care when disposing of them, especially if it is done by incineration, batteries , electrical appliances , plastics , computer equipment or bio-sanitary equipment, among many others, generate highly toxic substances. and bioaccumulative, gasification directly affects the food chain causing direct damage to the health of the population such as cancer, immune system disorders and hormonal alterations, among other diseases ...

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Greenpeace and its “Zero Waste” plan promote the practice of managing hazardous and non-hazardous waste from its production to its recycling or destruction in an appropriate manner, fully solving the environmental problems generated in this process.

Although in Asia we are much more advanced in the management of hazardous waste , we can still continue to progress, learn and fight against climate change, for and for global sustainable development.

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