What Is Environmental Education?
Today, there is an all important global concern about how to preserve and protect the world’s environment and environmental education is a key component to achieving that preservation. Many governments, businesses and environmental activists spend a lot of time trying to undo damage that has already been done. However, as with many of the world’s [...]
Migrating Through a Swarm of Battery Recycling Regulations
Everyone uses some sort of battery power. Where in a flashlight or radio or your automobile, there are specific recycling options for both alkaline and rechargeable batteries. Car batteries are the type of recyclable battery most people are accustomed to. These very often contain a mixture of lead and acid which can be very dangerous [...]
How to Design and Install Landfill Caps
This article applies to all typical RCRA Subtitle C Landfill Cap Systems, and is an educational guide only read the USEPA guides before taking any action. The things that landfill capping can achieve for an old landfill are: * Diminish exposure on the surface of the waste landfill. * Prevent vertical infiltration of water into [...]
Are We Consuming Toxic PCB From Bad Waste Management?
In just a few years, between their creation in 1930 and when they were banned in the late 1970s, highly toxic PCBs (also known as Polychlorinated biphenyls) were used in countless products and dumped into soil and water all over the world. In the North America, the Monsanto company (the very same one that brought [...]
Recycling Aluminum Cans Helps Our Waste Management
Recycling aluminum cans is healthy for our environment as it reduces our pollution and helps our waste management. Collecting these cans and taking them to recycling centers has grown in popularity over the years. It may seem counter-intuitive that aluminum could be such an environmentally friendly substance, but when recycled, as much as 95% of [...]