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2.2 Waste Management as an Approach in Green
Engineering
Waste management in the university has different characteristics from waste management in city level and general. This is due to campus activities, which are uniquely
compared to other areas in the city. Garbage generation generated by the campus with
open areas has different types of waste when compared to campuses with closed campus areas. Garbage generation in the open campus area has more complex types of
waste and the type of waste is almost the same as the type of urban waste. This condition occurs because people around the campus area can easily dispose of household
waste at certain points within the campus area. In the Green Architecture study,
waste management is a principle in Zero Waste concept and activity, in creating a
sustainable area.
Designing, analyzing, and evaluating a process or a region, a green engineer must
be able to minimize the risk factors, potential hazards, direct, and indirect impact
on human health and the environment that might occur. All the efforts to mitigate
all the risk factors and potential hazards must be holistic, starting from the input
information, data, and source to the final output of a planning process or design.
Waste is unwanted and unusable materials as a result of human activity or activities
in the region. Trough period of time and the growth of population and human needs,
it can be accumulated creating a mound of unusable material and generate potential
hazards for human health and environment. Waste can be minimized and reduced by
a certain approach, effort, and strategy. In accordance with the basic principles of
green engineering.
Waste as an issue is not only found in the residential area but also in university areas
although the type of waste produced in both residential and university areas is slightly
different. Mostly the waste management in university area still uses conventional
methods, in the sense that the generated waste generation will usually be collected
at the garbage collection points and then will be transported by the garbage truck to
be disposed of in the Final Waste Disposal Site. The transport of waste to the final
disposal site will only solve the problem of solid waste generation in an area but will
cause problems for the environment of the landfill.
Mostly waste management in university still applies conventional methods in
which all the wastes will be collected and transferred to the nearest waste collecting
points and then will be transported by scavenger truck to be disposed of in the
final waste disposal site or final landfill. Transporting waste to the final disposal site
will only solve the problem in the university area, but will cause problems for the
environment of the landfill.
The lack of capability to manage, recycle, and reuse the dump of waste has caused
environmental problems. Moreover, it is often reported that plastic waste fills the
oceans and kill many animals who eat it. In consequence, waste management as one
of many approaches in green engineering can contribute to minimizing the impact
of environmental damage that can affect human health. Waste management is better
started from waste sources to shorten the process. By providing sorted garbage bins,
A. Kusumawanto and M. Setyowati
2.2 Waste Management as an Approach in Green
Engineering
Waste management in the university has different characteristics from waste management in city level and general. This is due to campus activities, which are uniquely
compared to other areas in the city. Garbage generation generated by the campus with
open areas has different types of waste when compared to campuses with closed campus areas. Garbage generation in the open campus area has more complex types of
waste and the type of waste is almost the same as the type of urban waste. This condition occurs because people around the campus area can easily dispose of household
waste at certain points within the campus area. In the Green Architecture study,
waste management is a principle in Zero Waste concept and activity, in creating a
sustainable area.
Designing, analyzing, and evaluating a process or a region, a green engineer must
be able to minimize the risk factors, potential hazards, direct, and indirect impact
on human health and the environment that might occur. All the efforts to mitigate
all the risk factors and potential hazards must be holistic, starting from the input
information, data, and source to the final output of a planning process or design.
Waste is unwanted and unusable materials as a result of human activity or activities
in the region. Trough period of time and the growth of population and human needs,
it can be accumulated creating a mound of unusable material and generate potential
hazards for human health and environment. Waste can be minimized and reduced by
a certain approach, effort, and strategy. In accordance with the basic principles of
green engineering.
Waste as an issue is not only found in the residential area but also in university areas
although the type of waste produced in both residential and university areas is slightly
different. Mostly the waste management in university area still uses conventional
methods, in the sense that the generated waste generation will usually be collected
at the garbage collection points and then will be transported by the garbage truck to
be disposed of in the Final Waste Disposal Site. The transport of waste to the final
disposal site will only solve the problem of solid waste generation in an area but will
cause problems for the environment of the landfill.
Mostly waste management in university still applies conventional methods in
which all the wastes will be collected and transferred to the nearest waste collecting
points and then will be transported by scavenger truck to be disposed of in the
final waste disposal site or final landfill. Transporting waste to the final disposal site
will only solve the problem in the university area, but will cause problems for the
environment of the landfill.
The lack of capability to manage, recycle, and reuse the dump of waste has caused
environmental problems. Moreover, it is often reported that plastic waste fills the
oceans and kill many animals who eat it. In consequence, waste management as one
of many approaches in green engineering can contribute to minimizing the impact
of environmental damage that can affect human health. Waste management is better
started from waste sources to shorten the process. By providing sorted garbage bins,