20 Topic Ideas: "Waste Management" - The Environment Project

Welcome to the second article in the three part series covering the subject matter of waste management. This article will discuss the meaning of waste management; provide 20 environment project topics and a sample article on how to go about drafting any of the topics for your own particular project.

Waste management are all the processes involved with managing waste—both solid and liquid—from its inception to its final disposal. The problem of efficiently managing waste is a global one which means it is up to every individual to discuss the need for efficiency in a bid to raise awareness on its effect on earth’s ecosystem. To simplify the task of handling a project on waste management, 20 environment projects will be outlined below which you can chose from if any difficulties arise in coming up with your own.

The support doesn’t end there, for a sample written project will also be included in the concluding parts of this article to provide you with an excellent example on how to proceed with yours. As expected, all educational projects are scored for their originality and lack of plagiarism. So it is expected that you use this article by our academic writing service as a guideline to provide the needed directions as you progress with your project.

So here are the 20 topics on waste management:

1. The Importance of Waste Management to Environmental Sanitation
2. Evaluating the Problems of Solid Waste Management on the Global Stage
3. The Need for Effective Waste Management Policies
4. The Environmental and Health Effects of Waste Management
5. The Importance of Recycling to Waste Management
6. Environmental Impact of Waste Disposal
7. How to Develop an Effective Waste Management and Disposal Strategy
8. Why the Reuse and Recycling of Plastics Are Essential to Waste Management
9. How Paper, Metal, Wood, Glass and Plastics Are Recycled
10. The 3Rs of Managing Solid Waste: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
11. The Impact of Recycling in Preserving the Environment
12. Integrating Economic Incentives to Promote Recycling in Waste Management
13. Discussing the Waste Management Expectations of the Future
14. How Creating Recyclable Products Support Effective Waste Management
15. The Impact of Inefficient Waste Management to Oceans
16. Managing Electronic Waste to Ensure Green Computing
17. Recycling and Reuse: Alternatives to Waste Management
18. The Effects of Solid Waste to Business Environments
19. Landfill Emissions and Their Impact on the Environment
20. Waste Management and its Effects on Economic Growth

These 20 topics should be viewed as environment project topics on waste management and they were provided to aid you in your choice of coming up with a topic for your personal project. Therefore, you can either pick a topic directly from this list or modify one to fit your writing needs. If you’d like to gather more info on the subject, we have a set facts on waste management for an environmental project and a separate project guideline piece should you need one. Also take note that below is a sample project written using a topic from this list as its inspiration.

Sample Environmental Project: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle or the 3Rs of Managing Solid Waste

This project was written as a means to introduce the ‘3Rs’ of waste management to the public’s awareness. Although most people are now familiar with the term recycling, which is a part of the 3Rs, knowledge on the remaining two which makes up this trinity are still obscure to a large subset of our population. The R’s in the trinity of the 3Rs are acronyms for the term Reduce, Reuse and Recycle as can be seen in the topic heading of my project. And the meaning and the role they play on solid waste management will be discussed in the following paragraphs.

Globally, humans of the world are currently producing more garbage or solid waste that now test the capacity of our landfills and studies have shown that the traditional methods of waste disposal such as the use of incinerators and burying garbage could affect the environment and our health negatively. These negative effects are due to gas emissions from incinerators and noxious smells which is why it is very important for there to be more eco-friendly alternatives to manage waste.
This need has in part been met by the 3Rs—Reduce, Reuse and Recycle—which in terms of waste management mean:

• Reduce—as individuals we should buy only what we require thereby reducing the household waste we produce.
• Reuse—if we need to acquire goods, purchasing used ones or eco-friendly substitutes is encouraged or we can reuse our old packages in creative ways.
• Recycle—when discarding waste, we must consider ways of recycling or reusing them before taking the last option which is to discard.

Applying the 3Rs in Everyday Conduct

Many nations have begun to integrate the 3Rs into their official waste management policies, some examples include the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland and Mexico’s Solid Waste Act which were put into place to drastically reduce how waste was produced and managed in these countries. The 3Rs can be applied in line with government policies in the following ways:

Reduce: manufacturing companies are tasked with reducing the amount of raw materials used in making products from scratch. Then individuals should consider not purchasing products that can be replaced by technology or the reuse of other items. An example is opting out of your local phonebook or TV guide subscription lists which are now easily accessed online. The average person in the United States throws away 600 times the size of his or her body weight in garbage and reducing what we buy will drastically affect these numbers.

Reuse: unlike recycling, the alternative to reuse items is yet to catch on in consumer societies but individuals can take the first step reusing containers, giving outgrown clothes to friends or charity as well as donating electrical appliances or furniture to people in need. A reuse policy can also be initiated by the government thereby reducing the approximately 50 million tons of electronic waste produced globally.

Recycling: manufacturing and purchase of recyclable products have been given a lot of media exposure in the past as well as currently and this has improved the waste management practices on the global scale. Countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Holland currently recycle 60% of the total waste its citizen’s produce and if this could be adopted by more nations, the earth’s ecosystem will definitely be healthier for all.

The 3R are procedures every one of us can implement in his or her household without incurring any extra expenses. So what stops you from reusing that old can, donating to Salvation Army or using the recycle bins at work?

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