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21-30 of 31 for the Category : Waste & Pollution and the Subcategory : Hazardous WasteNuclear Energy ~ The 'Anti' Position
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Eskom plans to build, use and sell over 200 reactors to create a potential export business. This will mean more waste buried at Vaalputs and hundreds of trucks carrying radioactive materials on our roads. What follows are 10 reasons why nuclear pow
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Natural paints are made from renewable natural ingredients that are safe to use as they avoid toxic substances and safe to throw away as they are 100% biodegradable.
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Pesticides can be categorised as a diverse group of chemicals that kill insects.
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Plutonium is a heavy metal not found in nature because it undergoes radioactive decay over a period of time, and millions of years ago all the plutonium in the Earth’s crust had already disappeared due to the steady radioactive decay.
Read more about PlutoniumPolluter Pays Principle
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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.
Read more about Polluter Pays PrinciplePollution
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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
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Radioactive waste covers a spectrum from very low-level waste to very high-level waste and there are different challenges to be faced at the two ends of this spectrum.
Read more about Radioactive WasteTransboundary or Transfrontier Pollution
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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.
Read more about Transboundary or Transfrontier PollutionUsed Oil
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In South Africa, about 82 million litres of used oil is collected per annum. Unless recovered, this used oil poses a serious hazard to the environment and to the country's groundwater resources in particular.
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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
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