Waste management and the need for a better approach on global sustainability

Abstract

Waste represents in European countries as one of the biggest issues regarding environmental protection. The population consumes immense quantities of natural resources, renewable and depleted, and also tries to value environmental factors that if consumed they will damage the environment on the long run. Managing waste represents and targets all activities needed to value, eliminate, transport, use, and collect waste. To create optimal waste management, we must target reducing consumption of natural resources. With population growth, we also have a new measure targeted, especially because there are limited natural resources that are consumed more than supported to restock. The main objectives of managing waste are environmental protection and healthcare status and also keeping natural resources and their extractive environment intact. Our chapter offers a new approach on waste and the issues it develops, how waste will complicate our daily actions and influence the decay of the environment. To increase the value and ease the process of manufacturing, we need renewable materials to be sorted and separated from other types of products; this way they cannot cross-contaminate each other. Deposits of urban and industrial waste have a huge impact on the environment because they pollute the air, the soil, and all types of waters, and they modify on the spot, but for the long run, the soil's fertility, the environmental long-term output, and the aesthetics of the environment. We should emphasize the fact that having the necessary information and realizing the dissemination to the population about the importance of an optimal waste management will help future projects on managing waste, and it will give a push to ignite solutions for environmental issues, protecting green areas and eliminating the risks for human health, especially because we also need to protect the communitarian sentiment at all costs.