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10 Sustainability
Waste is being used increasingly to produce many materials and as an energy
source. While recycling has reached a point where it saves more GHG than it
originally generates, countries that are developing and emerging face the challenge
of needing to improve their unsustainable and ultimately inadequate waste management systems. We must look for other alternatives so that waste is no longer simply
deposited within residential areas, dumped into landfills that are uncontrolled, that
can ultimately end up in waterways.
How can governments help in controlling waste generation and prevention?
These methods of waste disposal cause waste to accumulate as marine litter
within the world’s oceans. Plastic waste causes major damage to the world’s wildlife
and eventually finds its way through the food chain in the form of micro particles. A
large proportion of the waste in the ocean and waterways originates from terrestrial
sources and waste deposits caused by non-existent and highly inefficient waste
management regimes.
Devise three waste disposal policies that can help alleviate bad waste management practices.
The development of cooperation projects is simply not enough to analyze
technical, financial, and organizational strategies for environmentally sustainable
resources as well as waste management. These factors, therefore, should feature
prominently in discussions at both international and national levels. Management
of waste and emissions is linked with many areas and must be tackled with a
multidisciplinary approach. The following subsections address some of the key
areas of emissions and waste with a discussion into the various strategies that either
are or can be implemented to reduce their environmental impact and increase their
sustainability.
10.4.2.3 Agriculture
Farms were responsible for six billion tons of GHG emissions in 2011, equating
to around 13% of total global emissions, making the agricultural industry the
second largest emitter after the energy sector (Oliver et al. 2013). The use of
natural and/or synthetic crop fertilizers for our soils and cattle belching are the
largest sources of farm originated emissions, making up 65% of all agricultural
emissions globally (Oliver et al. 2013). Other smaller sources include those related
10 Sustainability
Waste is being used increasingly to produce many materials and as an energy
source. While recycling has reached a point where it saves more GHG than it
originally generates, countries that are developing and emerging face the challenge
of needing to improve their unsustainable and ultimately inadequate waste management systems. We must look for other alternatives so that waste is no longer simply
deposited within residential areas, dumped into landfills that are uncontrolled, that
can ultimately end up in waterways.
How can governments help in controlling waste generation and prevention?
These methods of waste disposal cause waste to accumulate as marine litter
within the world’s oceans. Plastic waste causes major damage to the world’s wildlife
and eventually finds its way through the food chain in the form of micro particles. A
large proportion of the waste in the ocean and waterways originates from terrestrial
sources and waste deposits caused by non-existent and highly inefficient waste
management regimes.
Devise three waste disposal policies that can help alleviate bad waste management practices.
The development of cooperation projects is simply not enough to analyze
technical, financial, and organizational strategies for environmentally sustainable
resources as well as waste management. These factors, therefore, should feature
prominently in discussions at both international and national levels. Management
of waste and emissions is linked with many areas and must be tackled with a
multidisciplinary approach. The following subsections address some of the key
areas of emissions and waste with a discussion into the various strategies that either
are or can be implemented to reduce their environmental impact and increase their
sustainability.
10.4.2.3 Agriculture
Farms were responsible for six billion tons of GHG emissions in 2011, equating
to around 13% of total global emissions, making the agricultural industry the
second largest emitter after the energy sector (Oliver et al. 2013). The use of
natural and/or synthetic crop fertilizers for our soils and cattle belching are the
largest sources of farm originated emissions, making up 65% of all agricultural
emissions globally (Oliver et al. 2013). Other smaller sources include those related