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Students Name: Y. Barrett Topic:

Waste management Factors preventing effective waste Management in Western Jamaica.

Sub Topic: Purpose:

To Inform the general public about waste management and the effect to the environment.

Thesis: In western Jamaica the waste management systems fails yet again to keep up with
the proper standards and protocols to ensure that there is a safe and healthy environment. Firstly the system needs to install the right collection and transport methods, practice proper disposal technique and see to it that there are procedures in place to protect their customers and their workers from harmful diseases.

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Using the right collection and transport methods

Proper disposal technique Procedures put in place to protect their customers and their workers

Topic: Factors preventing effective waste management in western Jamaica

Have you ever wondered what its like riding on the back of a garbage truck? My first thoughts would be never! The fowl odor that emits from this trash wagon, so fowl it frightens the nostrils. Many finds is detrimental getting struck in traffic behind one, certainly they were not meant to disturb the public on route to the final destination in dump land, a flies heaven. What could be the cause of these mishaps? Could it be because of the poor design or simply due to waste management gone wrong? What is waste management? Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to material produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health and the environment. Waste management can involve solid, liquid gaseous or radioactive substances.

In western Jamaica the waste management systems fails yet again to keep up with the proper standards and protocols to ensure that there is a safe and healthy environment. Firstly the system needs to install the right collection and transport methods, practice proper disposal technique and see to it that there are procedures in place to protect their customers and their workers from harmful diseases.

Western Jamaica is growing rapidly with the change in its infrastructures and developments to rural areas; with this the collection and transport system cannot handle the amount of waste generated by these new developments, because they do not have the right collect and transports method install, waste is disposed of in uncontrolled dumps or openly burned. This type of unmonitored and uncontrolled waste has negative consequence on human health and the

environment. In order to correct this problem, the waste management of Jamaica has to develop new operational procedures and review the existing collection systems for the different kinds of waste for example bulk waste which are referred to as waste too large to be accepted by the regular waste collection these include couches, recliners and tables etc, and yet these waste are collected the same way as special waste and communal waste which are waste of less volume. The major problem affect western Jamaica is that there is only one site which caters for 4 parishes namely: Westmoreland, Hanover, St James and Trelawny this brings up the cost factors because of the journey and high gas prices. From information gather from research garbage collector are not intact with there schedules because of the number of communities they have to accommodate thought out the western region, this causes buildup of waste in urban areas. The development of a new sites near each parish is will reduce the time taken to collect the garbage and thus reduce the buildup cause from low collection. Improvements to waste collection and transport can create jobs, decrease open dumping and burning, increase appeal for tourism, and significantly improve public health. Frumkin, Howard. (2005) Environmental health: From global to local, San Francisco CA 940: Jossey Bass, A Wiley Imprint.

How they collect and transport the waste is one cause of ineffective waste management and how they dispose of it is another. Waste is normally heap and burn in open areas, without separation of any kind. This causes sudden explosion that might harm individuals or even to the extent person pasting by the burnt garbage. This kind of unprofessional practice can also affect the atmosphere in turn affect the environment on a hold. Waste management system needs to practice proper waste disposal techniques such as: landfilling recycling, composting and incineration these practices have their disadvantage but if they are practices properly it will be

very effective in the long run. As of 1993 it is estimated that 71 percent is land filled, 16 percent incinerated, and 13 percent recycled. Other wastes that have to be disposed of are nuclear and hazardous wastes. Petts. J. Eduljee, G. (1994) Environmental Impact Assessment for Waste Treatment and Disposal Facilities: John Wiley & Son Ltd.

Workers are to be cared for and protected, in that they are to receive proper gears: such as hand gloves, face covering and clothing. Most times garbage are place in heaps and that forces the workers to have contract with the garbage so this maximizes danger for these persons in that Proper sanitation must be available to them after every pick up and after work. Audley Mc Clean Director of operations at the NSWMA states that, garbage need to be put in skips or large containers that can easily lifted by cranes and dumped into trucks (2007) NSWMA takes issues trash collection, Sunday August 19,2007 Available at http://jamaicagleaner.com/gleaner/20070819/lead/lead9.html [Accessed on the April 18, 2011]. This minimizes the spread of infections and reduces the risk of accidental injury to staff, clients, visitors, and the local community, helps to provide an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere it also reduces odor and reduces the likelihood of contamination of any kind to individuals or to the extent the environment.

Waste management collection transport and disposal and protection are a very important because it helps to keep our communities in western Jamaica to the extent the environment clean. The systems overall have to put all the new practices and techniques in place so that we can all live happy and healthy. Effective waste management strategies contribute to the creation of a cleaner, less wasteful and more sustainable society it also assist in minimizing or avoiding

adverse impacts on the environment and human health, while allowing economic development and improvement in the quality of life.

From Wikipedia, available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management [Accessed on March 14, 2011]

. Frumkin, Howard. (2005) Environmental health: From global to local, San Francisco CA 940: Jossey Bass, A Wiley Imprint. Petts. J. Eduljee, G. (1994) Environmental Impact Assessment for Waste Treatment and Disposal Facilities: John Wiley & Son Ltd. (2007) NSWMA takes issues trash collection, Sunday August 19,2007 Available at

http://jamaicagleaner.com/gleaner/20070819/lead/lead9.html [Accessed on the April 18, 2011].