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21-28 of 28 for the Category : Waste & Pollution and the Subcategory : Waste & Pollution - General

Plastics

( Article Type: Explanation )

Plastics are synthetic substances, which can be moulded and formed when soft and then set.

This is a basic economic principle (currently being adopted in legislation by many countries) that requires the producers or generators of pollution to pay for the costs of avoiding pollution or of cleaning up or remedying its effects.

Pollution

( Article Type: Explanation )

Pollution comes in many forms and types. In its broadest sense, pollution can be described as the result of the release to air, water or soil from any process or of any substance, which is capable of causing harm to man or other living organisms supp

POPS & POPS Convention

( Article Type: Explanation )

POPs stands for Persistent Organic Pollutants, which is a group of chemicals targeted for elimination. These chemicals are all products of the industrial age and were initially used by the first world in industrial processes.

Sanitation

( Article Type: Explanation )

Sanitation encompasses a number of different issues that address the need to safely dispose of the waste products from human activities without irreversible harm to the natural environment.

Transboundary or Transfrontier Pollution

( Article Type: Explanation )

This is pollution that is generated in one country and is carried via air or water to another country where it causes damage, illness or nuisance.

Waste Management

( Article Type: Overview )

Waste management in South Africa is based on the principles of the White Paper on Integrated Pollution and Waste Management (IP&WM) and the National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) published by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in

Zero Waste

( Article Type: Explanation )

'Zero Waste is a goal that is both pragmatic and visionary, to guide people to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are resources for others to use.'