subject: Waste Disposal Dublin-introduction To Hazardous Waste Materials [print this page] Waste disposal simply refers to the management of waste to prevent harm to the environment, injury or long term damage to the health of human beings and other living creatures. Disposal of waste is done at such a place where intention remains to store the waste materials permanently till its biodegradable and chemicals effects do not become inactive.
Today waste disposal have became an essential need in todays life to save the environment and its creatures. There are different kinds of waste material which are harming the environment and polluting it. New technologies are developing though but, waste materials are being produced at an enormous rate that it is going quite difficult for local councils and authorities to get control over it. Most harmful and hazardous waste materials are those materials that pose substantial or potential threat to the human beings. Here I am giving you the list of waste materials that are considered to be harmful and come under the category of hazardous waste materials.
Paints and solvents,
Automotive waste materials,
Pesticides (it basically includes insecticides, herbicides, fungicides)
Waste materials that contains mercury as thermometer, fluorescent lighting and many more
Electronic gadgets are considered to be harmful to the environment,
Aerosol and propane cylinders
Cosmetics and beauty items that contains certain chemicals
Radioactive waste materials are considered probably the most harmful amongst all.
Here it will be interesting for you to know that some home smoke detectors are also classified as radioactive waste materials because they contain very diminutive amount of radioactive isotope americium.
Though waste disposal Dublin companies are developing the new technologies every day that can help them to dispose of the hazardous waste materials properly. Most popular options that professional waste disposal Dublin companies utilize to dispose of such hazardous waste materials are as follows;
Integrated waste management: This method is a recent discovery in the field of waste management and it is done through the life cycle analysis approach. Life cycle analysis is put to use during the waste disposal from the municipal sites. Segregation, Source separation and collection are followed by reuse and recycling. After it, fertilizer production stage comes where organic waste fraction is processed.
Plasma gasification: As plasma do have electrically charged and ionized gas particles we use this process of disposal. It takes place in vessel and plasma touches the temperature of 5500 degree Celsius.
