| Minding waste management facts and figures of your | | | | on a localized basis and from a general, environmental |
| own company can help encourage change in the | | | | perspective. |
| society on a larger scale. | | | | Global warming will result from methane that's just |
| Organizations and companies would have to be very | | | | allowed to leak to the air from a landfill. With the |
| specific in understanding waste management facts | | | | current number of 500 landfill-gas-to-energy projects |
| and figures for them to be sure that they are able | | | | in the U.S., it is already possible for such to produce |
| to adopt a plan that is sustainable. Very often, an | | | | enough power using renewable energy that could |
| organization's management will only determine that | | | | light up 1.6 million homes. |
| recycling is a societal requirement and will not realize | | | | If a company makes an effort to gather waste |
| that with proper waste management, significant | | | | management facts and to determine the correct size |
| savings can be accomplished. | | | | and scale of the problem, it will find that a systematic |
| Waste management facts generally show us that as | | | | waste management program could save, by some |
| a society we are grossly inefficient. With the current | | | | estimates as much as 1% of annual turnover. In |
| waste disposal practices, about 95% of the total | | | | addition, these are generally bottom-line savings and |
| volume of wastes go to the landfill, thereby being | | | | long-term, not short-term. |
| ineffective. | | | | Remember that customers and other stakeholders |
| A typical landfill is a grossly inefficient way of dealing | | | | are increasingly critical and insist upon measures of |
| with our mountains of waste. In some cases, we just | | | | sustainability prior to allocating the business to an |
| bury some of our solid wastes which are | | | | organization. It follows that a company that is willing |
| non-biodegradable. In addition to the fact that the | | | | to go out of its way to show that it is sustainable, |
| landfill is an eyesore, it is responsible for the | | | | by publishing its waste management facts, can |
| generation of liquid leachate, methane and carbon | | | | expect an exponential increase in reputation. |
| dioxide and our landfills are very contributor to our | | | | Waste management could extend all throughout an |
| greenhouse gas problems. | | | | organization's lifecycle, which could even include the |
| In some cases, certain jurisdictions gather energy | | | | supply chain. Every company should take a leaf out |
| from waste, where waste is burned in a furnace to | | | | of Wal-Mart's book and insist that its suppliers |
| generate steam, or electricity. While this may seem | | | | become equally as sustainable as the purchasing |
| to be an efficient way of dealing with certain | | | | company. |
| categories of waste, pollutants are a byproduct, both | | | | |