1. Solid wastes are only raw materials we’re too stupid to use. Arthur C Clarke Fresh Kills Landfill

2. Solid and Hazardous Waste Chapter 21

3. We Throw Away Huge Amounts of Useful Things and Hazardous Materials Solid waste – Industrial solid waste – Municipal solid waste (MSW) – Hazardous, toxic, waste Hazardous wastes – Organic compounds – Toxic heavy metals – Radioactive waste

4. We Can Burn or Bury Solid Waste or Produce Less of It Waste Management Waste Reduction Integrated waste management – Uses a variety of strategies

5. Integrated Waste Management

6. Integrated Waste Management: Priorities for Dealing with Solid Waste

8. “Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.” ― Edward Humes, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with TrashEdward HumesGarbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

9. We Can Cut Solid Wastes by Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Waste reduction is based on – Reduce – Reuse – Recycle Seven strategies: (1) Redesign manufacturing processes and products to use less material and energy (2) Redesign manufacturing processes to produce less waste and pollution

10. We Can Cut Solid Wastes by Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Seven strategies cont… (3) Develop products that are easy to repair, reuse, remanufacture, compost, or recycle (4) Eliminate or reduce unnecessary packaging (5) Use fee-per-bag waste collection systems (6) Establish cradle-to grave responsibility (7) Restructure urban transportation systems

11. What Can You Do? Solid Waste

12. Solutions: State-of-the-Art Sanitary Landfill

13. Trade-Offs: Sanitary Landfills, Advantages and Disadvantages

14. Solutions: Phytoremediation

15. Trade-Offs: Phytoremediation, Advantages and Disadvantages

16. Case Study: Hazardous Waste Regulation in the United States 1976: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 1980: Comprehensive Environmental, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), or Superfund – Pace of cleanup has slowed – Superfund is broke Laws encouraging the cleanup of brownfields