Briefing Notes Commission Waste

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Waste also known as rubbish, trash, refuse, garbage, junk, and litter is unwanted or useless materials.

Waste is directly linked to human development both technological and social.

The compositions of different wastes have varied over time and location, with industrial development and

innovation being directly linked to waste materials, examples include plastics, nuclear waste.

Some waste components have economic value and can be recycled once correctly recovered. Waste can

also be understood as a subjective concept because items that some people discard may have value toothers. It is widely recognized that waste materials can be a valuable resource, whilst there is debate as to

how this value is best realized.



Wastes are materials that are not prime products (that is products produced for the market) for which we have no

further use in terms of purposes of production, transformation or consumption, and of which one wants to dispose.

Wastes may be generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediateand final products, the consumption of final products, and other human activities.



Once a substance or object has become waste, it will remain waste until it has been fully recovered for recycling.

Definitions:Non-wanted things created, not intended, or not avoided, with no purpose.

Things that were given a finite purpose thus destined to become useless after fulfilling it.

Things with well-defined purpose, but their performance ceased being acceptable.

Things with well-defined purpose, and acceptable performance, but their users failed to use them for the intended

purpose.



There are many different waste-types:

Municipal Waste includes household waste,Commercial waste,

Demolition waste

Hazardous waste includes Industrial waste

Bio-medical waste includes clinical wasteSpecial hazardous waste includes radioactive waste, explosives waste, E-waste



Waste attracts insects which harbour parasites, yellow fever, worms, the plague and other conditions

for humans. Exposure to hazardous wastes, particularly when they are burned, can cause various

other diseases including cancers. On continous level in India, several scrap metal dealers becomehospitalized due to radiation exposure at Delhi. Some of them loose their life due to multiple organ

failure and become critically ill.

Waste can contaminate surface water, groundwater, soil, and air which causes more problems for

humans, other species, and ecosystems.



Industrial production of various materials or

products, waste treatment and waste disposal

produces significant green house gasemissions, notably methane, which are

contributing significantly to global climatechange.



Edward Burtynski, ‘Shipbreaking # 31,

Chittagong, Bangladesh’, 2001



Sophie Gerrard, ‘E-waste "cooking" in acid, Seelampur, Delhi, India’ from the series ‘E-Waste’



Derek Mossop, ‘Landscapes in Transition’, 2010



Julian Stallabrass, ‘Thrown Down’, 2010



Keith Arnatt, 'Pictures from a Rubbish Tip’, 1988-89



Sze Tsung Leong, ‘Fengdu I, Chongqing Municipality’ from the series ‘History Images’, 2002



Robert Polidori, ‘New Orleans after the Flood’, 2005



David Maisel, ‘Library of Dust’, 2008



Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal, managing and monitoring of waste

materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human The management of wastes treats allmaterials as a single class, whether solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, and tried to reduce the

harmful environmental impacts of each through different methods.Waste management practices differ for

developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential and industrial producers.

Management for non-hazardous waste residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas of (developed

countries) is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous

commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator (developed countries).



A waste picker is a person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others tosell or for personal consumption. There are millions of waste pickers worldwide, predominately in

developing countries. Over the past half-century, waste picking has expanded vastly in thedeveloping world due to urbanization.

In many cities, they provide the only solid waste collection service.Yet they face many hardships,

including stigma, exploitation by middlemen, and hazardous working and living conditions.



Pieter Hugo, ‘Permanent Error’, 2010



Pieter Hugo, ‘Permanent Error’, 2010



Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially

useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air

pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for

"conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virginproduction.



Melissa Moore, ‘untitled’, 2010



Anne Hardy, ‘Lumber’, 2003



John Stezaker, ‘Mask XXXVI’, 2007

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