Waste disposal
Description
Household waste can cause pollution of all kinds, but more and more of these wastes can be recycled effectively and economically. The result is reduced pollution and a useful new source of raw materials and energy. Hospital waste disposal presents the additional problems of contaminated waste, which is a series of problems depending on the nature of the waste: contaminated blood waste, for example, requires different treatment from radioactive waste. Finally, there is animal waste, which is natural enough but nevertheless the cause of pollution if it is not properly treated. The program also shows how pig waste is treated.
Runtime
23 min
Subjects
- Refuse and refuse disposal (122)
- Submarine geology (33)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- Marine resources (28)
- Environmental protection (361)
- Oceanography (140)
- Water (318)
- Toxicology (87)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2009], c1994
Database
Films on Demand
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