What are the types of garbage?
The seven most common types of garbage are:
- Liquid or Solid Household Waste.
- Hazardous Waste.
- Medical/Clinical Waste.
- Electrical Waste (E-Waste)
- Recyclable Waste.
- Construction & Demolition Debris.
- Green Waste.
How is garbage bad for the environment?
Trash can travel throughout the world’s rivers and oceans, accumulating on beaches and within gyres. This debris harms physical habitats, transports chemical pollutants, threatens aquatic life, and interferes with human uses of river, marine and coastal environments.
What is garbage pollution?
Garbage, including everyday items such as cigarette butts, plastic bags, bottles, cans and discarded fishing gear, are common causes of marine pollution. Most of our garbage today is made from non-biodegradable products such as plastic, which persists in the marine environment for potentially thousands of years.
Why is it important to reduce single-use plastic?
Reducing the use of plastic is important because plastic production requires an enormous amount of energy and resources. This causes carbon emissions and contributes to global warming. Recycling plastic is not efficient – only 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.
What are the causes of garbage?
Causes for Garbage Dumping
- Excessive amounts of waste.
- Excessive consumption behavior.
- Population growth.
- Food waste.
- Electronic waste.
- Plastic waste.
- Cultural values.
- Laziness.
How do we use plastic?
What sectors use plastic? Plastic is used across almost every sector, including to produce packaging, in building and construction, in textiles, consumer products, transportation, electrical and electronics and industrial machinery.
What is the cause and effect of garbage?
One of the outcomes of overflowing garbage is air pollution, which causes various respiratory diseases and other adverse health effects as contaminants are absorbed from lungs into other parts of the body. The toxic substances in air contaminated by waste include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane.