Creating an Environment Conducive to Living through Waste Management
If you come to realize about using proper waste management or garbage disposal as an environmentally friendly or responsible act instead of sending wastes to landfill, you may be surprised to find out the many benefits of waste management to the environment and how it can greatly outweigh any disadvantage it might have. With proper waste management, you can enjoy more sanitary conditions in your home. By disposing wastes properly such as making leftover food items into fertilizers by composting, you will be incurring less garbage in your home and this could result to fewer garbage bags and lesser trips into your garbage can. In addition, there is also less chance of decomposing food that may attract animals, insects and pests. Additionally, those who are using plastic garbage bags that are not biodegradable will be using fewer of these plastic bags. Lastly, leftover food items that are ground up and flushed into the sewage system leaves more sanitary home conditions than the same food left standing in the garbage bin in your home producing harmful bacteria. Other waste management benefits include reducing emissions in landfills. Food scraps that decompose generate methane gases which are more than 20 times potent than carbon dioxide and trap heat in the atmosphere of the earth. Food wastes that are sent to landfill are also incinerated there and this process is known to produce emissions as well. Given the quantity of solid waste and food scraps sent to landfills, reducing the amount of waste also saves costs on energy for cities as there will be lesser vehicles needed and this means reducing the overall consumption of energy and emissions from unburned fossil fuels. There are actually a lot of benefits that proper waste management can bring to the environment. When everyone realizes these benefits, achieving a safer, healthier and more conducive to living environment is never impossible. In cities such as Brisbane where the population is extremely high, the amount of waste they produce is also massive. This is exactly the reason why recycling Brisbane has been strongly enforced by the government, to reduce wastes and to keep the city cleaner and greener.