Waste

see pages 100-106 for nuclear

wastesand 107-115 for other
waste
 Other Hazardous wastes
LUST:
Leaking underground storage tanks
Yank-a-tank

Secure landfills
Deep well injection
superfund
Deep-well Injection
hazardous waste
Uses dry
impermeable
bedrock sealed from
aquifers above and
below
Seismicity triggered
at Rocky Mountain
Arsenal by deep-
well injection
Wastesfrommining
MiningActivitiesintheU.S.

12-22 Source:MineralCommoditySummaries1996,U.S.BureauofMines.
 Created in 1980
to correct and
Superfund stop abuses of
irresponsible
toxic-waste
dumping
Kansas (from EPA)
29th & Mead Ground Water Contamination (PDF) (5 pp,
41K, About PDF)
57th and North Broadway Streets Site (PDF) (5 pp, 36K,
About PDF)
Ace Services (PDF) (7 pp, 37K, About PDF)
Arkansas City Dump (PDF) (4 pp, 29K, About PDF)
Big River Sand Company (PDF) (4 pp, 31K, About PDF)
Chemical Commodities, Inc. (PDF) (8 pp, 42K, About PDF)
Cherokee County (PDF) (12 pp, 53K, About PDF)
Doepke Disposal (Holliday) (PDF) (5 pp, 31K, About PDF)
Former United Zinc & Associated Smelters (PDF) (4 pp,
42K, About PDF)
Fort Riley (PDF) (7 pp, 41K, About PDF)
Hydro-Flex Inc. (PDF) (4 pp, 45K, About PDF)
John's Sludge Pond (PDF) (5 pp, 31K, About PDF)
Obee Road (PDF) (6 pp, 43K, About PDF)
Plating, Inc. (PDF) (5 pp, 46K, About PDF)
Pester Refinery Company (PDF) (6 pp, 35K, About PDF)
Strother Field Industrial ParK, (PDF) (5 pp, 41K, About
PDF)
Tri-County Public Airport (PDF) (5 pp, 66K, About PDF)
Wright Ground Water Contamination (PDF) (4 pp, 30K,
About PDF)
 A lot of Trash
About 4.4 lbs. per person per day (almost 1
ton of household waste annually) (Wichita residents
higher)
57% goes to a landfill
One days total= a line of 10-ton trucks that
would circle the Earth 3 times (20 times for
all waste)
15 million scrapped cars annually in the US
Us generates the most- Were #1!! (per person)
But Singapore has the most per unit of land
(2,500tons per Km2) US (20 tons Km ) Canada (23 tons/ Km
2 2)
 Where does it go?

Ocean Dumping
Favored in the past
for sewage, sludge,
dredge spoils and
encased nuclear
wastes
Now regulated by
the Ocean Dumping
Act
Early recycling
Scavengers at the Olusosun
garbage landfill. The Olusosun
dump is Nigeria's largest trash
heap comprising over 100 acres
of garbage and is believed to be
the largest in Africa. There are
roughly one thousand homes
built within the dump.

Mexico City dump

'Illegal waste' shipped to Brazil
An investigation into illegal waste shipment has been
launched after containers of rubbish sent to Brazil for
recycling were found to contain items including nappies and
medical waste.
A collection of doors at a recycling center. More than 70 percent of
the materials that feed China's recycling industry come from abroad.
The city dump
 Case History

Highest elevation on the eastern shore of the US

25 times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza
Landfill Problems
Leachate
Settlement
Gas generation
Visual blight
Modern landfill- Isolation
(cells)
Categories of Waste Disposal
Methods

Isolation
Attenuation
dilution
Reduction
Reduction
Multiple Land-Use Concept
A mine or quarry
becomes a
landfill, which
when full may
be converted to
a park or other
recreational area
Waste Management
Components
Source Reduction
Recycling
Waste Recovery
Waste Disposal
Extend the lifetimes
of landfills and
natural resources
Resource Recovery
Amount of waste
delivered to landfills
can be reduced
through recycling
programs,
composting, and
implementing waste
reduction strategies
Waste basket- Room 101 1:45
Do you know where the re-cycling bins
are located?
 Back row Rm 101 Tus/Thur 1:45pm

Recycling- What you can do!

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough
energy to run a television for three hours and
takes only 5% of the energy needed to produce one from scratch (aluminum ore).
Lawrence leads with 36% beverage containers)

Recycling a glass container saves enough

energy to light a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours

Composting yard waste (and organics

can cut landfill waste by 30%) with a
useful by-product
 Cant be bothered to empty your plastic bottle and put it and the cap
ecycle bin?
Then heres where it will probably end up:

Plastic bags and other plastic

garbage thrown into the ocean kill
as many as 1,000,000 sea
creatures every year!
 Recycling that aluminum can- Just too much of a
hassle?

A recycled aluminum can saves 95% of the

energy and all of the environmental
degradation from mining new ore.

Most critiques of the aluminum industry focus

on refineries and smelters, which are among
the worst culprits of global heating. But bauxite
mining excavates a huge surface area, and has
caused environmental devastation in Jamaica,
Guinea, Australia, India and recently also in
Vietnam.
A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.
That's closed loop recycling at its finest!

Aluminum is a durable and sustainable metal: two-thirds of the aluminum ever produced is in use today.
Making new aluminum cans from used cans takes 95 percent less energy and 20 recycled cans can be
made with the energy needed to produce one can using virgin ore.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four
hours or run your television for three hours.
Last year 54 billion cans were recycled saving energy equivalent to 15 million barrels of crude oil -
America's entire gas consumption for one day.
But also needs governmental
commitment
 Recycling

Municipal waste in Oman is characterized by its high

proportion of recyclables
The San Francisco Recycling Center processes about
750 tons of recyclables a day, and Mayor Gavin
Newsom wants to add to that total.


Workers sort plastics at the San

Francisco Recycling Center. The city,
with 7,800 tons of waste a day,
keeps 70 percent of it out of
landfills. Mayor Gavin Newsom is
 Creative Recycling

The toll motorway around

Birmingham includes 16
miles of tarmac and
asphalt glued together by
a paste made from 1.5
million recycled romantic
novels!
Danish
Garbage into heat
Incinerator
Reduce energy
Denmark recycles 42% of its waste and
costs
burns 54% in waste to energy in heat and
power stations
Lessen landfill
The US recycles about 33%; 13 % is used
needs
in waste to energy incinerators; 54 % in
landfills (3% in Denmark)
Produce less
pollutants and CO2?
Cons: more toxic
ash
 E-Waste
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an
estimated 30 to 40 million PCs will be ready for "end-of-life
management" in the next few years

About 50 million cell phones are replaced EACH MONTH worldwide

only about 10% are recycled

- About 25 million TVs are taken out of service yearly.

- The EPA estimates that in 2005, the U.S. discarded 1.5 to 1.9 million
tons (3 billion lbs.) of computers, TVs, VCRs, monitors, cell phones,
and other equipment.

- According to the UN Environment Program, the worldwide total for e-

waste could be 50 million tons per year.
 E-waste- where does it go?

Watch 60 Minutes on where your

e-waste probably winds up
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4586903n
 Please view the video link listed to see
what happens to e-waste in America

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/follow
ing-the-trail-of-toxic-e-waste/
 2008

Kansas Facts
The average Kansas hog factory farm has 10,000 pigs.
The average Kansas factory-farm dairy has nearly 3,600 cows.
There are only twice as many people as factory farmed hogs in Kansas.
Kansas nearly has more beef cattle on industrial feedlots (2.6 million) than
people (2.8 million).
The nearly 225,000 beef cattle on industrial feedlots in Scott County, Kansas
produce as much untreated manure as the sewage from the New York City
and Seattle metro areas combined.
The 2.5 million beef cattle, 1.7 million hogs, 79,000 dairy cows, and 614,000
egg-laying hens on factory farms in Kansas produce as much untreated
manure as 307 million people about the same as the entire U.S.
population.

Plus antibiotic resistant microbes!

KDHE approves expansion permit for Greeley County hog farm

More than 390,000 pigs would be allowed, making facility one of
nation's largest
The poultry industry contributes more than $700 million annually to the
Maryland economy. But as the amount of cropland has shrunk and the number
of chickens raised has grown to 570 million, these mountains of manure have
become a liability. In Willards, Md., corn and soy fields separate the houses
from the roads. Three quarters of the state's crop go toward feeding the birds.
Photo: Veronica Lukasova for The New York Times
Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency say that agriculture
is the largest single source of pollutants and sediment in the
Chesapeake Bay, accounting for over 40 percent of the nitrogen and
phosphorous and over 70 percent of the sediment. This drainage ditch
near Mr. Richardson's chicken houses runs to the Pocomoke River,
which feeds into the bay.
Plastic- can last forever
 A Much Better Use for Oil than Gasoline! Or is it?

Professor Mark Foster and Family (Univ. of Akron Polymer Science

Department) with all their oil-based polymer belongings! -- Nat. Geog. June
2004
Ocean trash gyres

 e t e r mi n a lly
B i rd s bec o m
Sea & Shore t h ey di e!
entangle d

- World Wildlife Fund Report 2005

 Nearly 200 different species of sea
life including whales, dolphins, seals
and turtles die due to plastic bags

- World Wildlife Fund Report 2005

- BBC News August 20, 2002
 Israel, Canada, western India,
Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South
Africa, Taiwan, and Singaporehave
also banned or are moving toward
banning the plastic bag

- PlanetSave.com February 16, 2008

On March 27th 2007, San Francisco
became the first U.S. city to ban
plastic bags

- NPR.org (National Public

Radio)
End
ConsumptionGrowthofPlasticsandMineral
Figure12.21

12-21 Source:U.S.BureauofMines.
 Cans Seurat, 2007
6092
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds

For more- go to: https://hopeeternal.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/chris-jordan-cans-seurat-2007-georges-seurat-sunday-

afternoon-at-the-grande-jatte/
Closer
Closer