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Compost is a soil amendment necessary to maintain the soil balance and its productivity. It is the aerobically decomposed remnants of organic matter, such as kitchen waste, leaves, grass or fruits, through the action of macro or microorganisms at a certain oxygen level and at specific temperatures.
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The landfill is a site for the disposal of municipal solid waste and all the human-created waste (construction debris, industrial scrap, etc.) that cannot be recycled, gasified, sent for mechanical and organic treatment or used as fuel in the waste to energy plants.
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Criminal organisations committing crimes that cause damage to the environment represent what is currently known as EcoMafia. The main illegal activities committed, and unfortunately, damaging the environmental balance are the trafficking and the illegal waste disposal, illegal housing and forests arson.
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In the framework of a modern municipal waste management, separate collection stands as the first and most important objective to achieve.This “good practice”, in fact, allows the attainment of several goals: - Reduction of the quantity of waste to be disposed of in the landfills or state-of-the art facilities; - material recovery –generated economic activities; - processing and disposal cost control to the advantage of citizens.
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About 50% of solar radiations hits our planet, developing an energy quantity that, properly exploited, would be thirty thousand times more than the amount needed to supply the world demand.Solar energy is used to generate power through the photovoltaic panels or to generate heat through the thermal solar panels.
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When the “Waste Cycle Integrated Management” is mishandled the consequences, most of the times, will have an impact on the environment, leading to situations that can jeopardize the ecosystem of vast territories.The main environmental pollution causes in this sector are: - Criminal organisations’ illegal activities; - Dumping of industrial wastewater and sludge non-compliant with regulations; - Illegitimate use of waste treatment and disposal facilities; - Indiscriminate abandonment of dangerous and non-degradable materials.
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Protection of our environment depends also on our daily behaviours and actions. Throwing in the street, sea or on the grass any type of rubbish will always cause an unpleasant situation or true damages.
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Recent studies have established that if everybody acts as an average citizen in a high income Country, using and wasting energy and resources of an amount higher than what actually needed, we would need an extra 2,6 planets to satisfy all humankind requirements.
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In the framework of “Waste Cycle Integrated Management” general development, technological innovation plays a fundamental role.Researching new technical and scientific solutions together with their practical application will improve the range of strategies aiming to recover and recycle waste, reducing the quantity destined for dump sites and at the same time to update the industrial production processes in order to increase the level of a general eco-sustainability.
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Wind Energy has been the first renewable energy source discovered by man. In the past, wind energy was immediately used on site as motive power for industrial and pre-industrial applications, such as the wind mills. Nowadays this source’s potential provides for clean energy production is much more extensively used through the setting up of the so-called Wind Farms.
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It is fundamental for environmental protection that men learn how to use energy sparingly preferring energy produced through renewable sources not polluting and limitless available in nature and that can be regenerated over time.
