Recycling and waste disposal: Difference between revisions

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Recycling information is very location sensitive since the state of recycling systems vary highly from place to place, but it's a good starting place. We can work from recycling and correct [[waste disposal]] bacwards up the consumption chain without getting engulfed in a swamp of lies right in the begining.
Recycling information is very location sensitive since the state of recycling systems vary highly from place to place, but it's a good starting place. We can work from recycling and correct [[waste disposal]] bacwards up the consumption chain without getting engulfed in a swamp of lies right in the begining.


=Recycling=
= Recycling =
== Well organized recycling ==
== Well organized recycling ==


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==Waste disposal==
= Waste disposal =
=== E-waste ===
 
== E-waste ==
* '''[[w:Electronic waste]]''' should be recycled.  
* '''[[w:Electronic waste]]''' should be recycled.  
* '''[[w:Computer recycling]]'''
* '''[[w:Computer recycling]]'''


===Hazardous waste===
== Hazardous waste ==


Proper dealing with hazardous waste is a very location specific issue. In developed countries there are often arrangements that the companies that sell products containing hazardous waste are also responsible for accepting and managing the handling of hazardous waste, such as batteries, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, freons and machinery oils
Proper dealing with hazardous waste is a very location specific issue. In developed countries there are often arrangements that the companies that sell products containing hazardous waste are also responsible for accepting and managing the handling of hazardous waste, such as batteries, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, freons and machinery oils


===Other waste===
== Other waste ==


[[Accounting standard]]s that deal properly with waste are based on [[ISO 14000]].  [[ISO 19011]] is the first real standard here.  But it doesn't deal with [[natural capital]] as well as it could, nor all the [[styles of capital]].
[[Accounting standard]]s that deal properly with waste are based on [[ISO 14000]].  [[ISO 19011]] is the first real standard here.  But it doesn't deal with [[natural capital]] as well as it could, nor all the [[styles of capital]].
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==See also:==
= See also =
*[[Recyclability]]
*[[Recyclability]]
*[[Packaging]]
*[[Packaging]]
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