Whether you're in your home or workplace, living in a clean and hygienic environment is very important to everyone. Sometimes we find ourselves too busy for rubbish disposal, which can lead to a build-up of rubbish — something which is unsightly and unhygienic for everyone.
Some residences don't understand the importance of waste management. They end up dumping waste in landfills and think that they’re doing the right thing. They didn't realise that it also impacts the environment significantly. Now, why is proper waste management important? Here are some of the environmental benefits.
3R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle
Proper rubbish management helps improve air and water quality, as well as significantly reducing greenhouse emissions. It also helps in minimising the extraction of resources along with reducing pollution and energy consumption associated with manufacturing new materials. If you dispose of your waste improperly, your waste will end up polluting the environment and also facilitate in the production of greenhouse gases.
Turning your waste into a useful substance
The 3R's of waste management help turn recyclable waste into useful substances. If you don't dispose of your rubbish properly, these useful substances can't be created.
Conserving space & landfills
By properly disposing of your waste, least amounts of your waste reaches the landfills. By conserving space in landfills, the production of harmful substances is reduced significantly.
Conserving natural resources
By being smart with your waste disposal, you also help conserve natural resources such as water, minerals and timber. This is the effect of reducing, reusing and recycling. You’re not only decreasing the need to manufacture new materials, but you’re also helping to conserve the natural resources that are used in the manufacturing process.
Proper waste management not only helps you reduce, reuse and recycle but also helps in turning unwanted waste into useful substances, such as compost and waste energy. You also help in reducing the amount of greenhouse emissions and leachate production. And last but not the least, you can conserve space in landfills and natural resources such as water, timber and minerals, which will otherwise be used in manufacturing new materials.
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