Do Not Waste Your Waste - Environmental Self Training
Recycling and waste management should be implemented and training by human as a resource management system, not a waste management system. This will be a good attitude for environmental self training. As recycling programs began to be implemented in the 1970s and 1980s they were thought of as part of the solid waste collection system and environmental training. Today the approach that is considered a “best practice” is to view recyclables as commodities that are managed under a resource management system consistent with management frameworks such as “sustainable materials management” and “zero waste” by a suitable environmental training.
#1. Stop Thinking Waste Management – Think Sustainable Materials Management
A resource management plan is part of an integrated materials management strategy and environmental training, in which a municipality makes deliberate decisions about how materials should flow. This can be discover by suitable waste management and environmental training program. The plan elements then become specific tactics to deal with specific materials after they have been consumed.
Those elements that usually be considered while training include:
Prevention
Reuse
Generation
Source Separation (recyclables and organics)
Recovery
Collection
Transfer
Recycling
Treatment
Disposal
It can also define the approaches to contracting for services and funding program services and also environmental training. The key program areas that are incorporated in effective resource management plans include:
Single Stream Recycling Training
Commercial Recycling Training
Organic and Food Waste Recovery Training
Multi-family Recycling Training
Away from Home and Special Event Recycling Training
Waste Awareness and ‘How to Recycle’ Communications Training
#2. Planning is a Process – Not an Event
A plan is the framework that helps us identify our starting point (where are we now), our objective (where do we want to be in the future), the way to reach our objective (how are we going to get there) and finally the way to recognize progress (what should we measure to know we’ve moved the needle).
The performance of a plan and environmental training in meeting its objectives must be evaluated by good training and taken forward as a major input into further planning cycles. The objective should be to ensure sustainable improvements to service coverage and standards for managing all recovered resources. Strategic planning offers the opportunity to deliver sustainable improvements to local waste management for environmental practices with training because it can respond to the ever changing waste and recovered materials markets.
#3. Take a Collaborative Approach
Public-Private Partnerships for Service Delivery (PPPSD) is one of the proven approaches to resource management planning in our environment. The main objective of the program is to promote sustainable, self-supporting partnerships between businesses and local governments to support the formation and operation of new enterprise-municipal co-operation in solid waste management and recycling systems.
The main goal of the program is to stimulate improved co-operation and environmental training between public, private and citizen stakeholders that: contributes to sustainable improvement of recycling and solid waste management; minimizes negative effects of waste in poor communities and environments; and improves the lives and livelihoods of people and enterprises in cities and rural communities.
#4. Avoid the Scenic Route to the Landfill
Diversion from landfills has become a major driver for many resource management plans and recycling programs in environmental training, with some states and municipalities even operating under legislative requirements for achieving specific diversion goals. However, when poorly sorted materials are counted as “diverted” from local landfills, but end up landfilled by manufacturers because they are not usable, they simply made a longer trip to the Landfill. Verifying the fate of materials recovered from municipal recycling programs is critical to determining the actual diversion rate. Recycling programs in environmental training should know the quantity of materials were usable in the production of recyclable products.
In order to ensure an optimally functioning whole recycling system, local governments must provide for recycling services and environmental training that sustain all parts of the cycle, not just collection. Local governments must specify collection, processing and marketing requirements in their requests for services and training in their local ordinances for hauler and recovery service providers. Throughout the planning and implementation for resource management programs and training, stakeholder input and feedback is critical and must include the manufacturing end markets for recovered resources in our environment.
Ultimately, the goal of recycling programs and environmental training should be to maximize the recyclability of all its materials.
References : http://recycle.com/4-tips-waste-mgt-plan/
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