Harmful Waste Materials

As an environmental consultant, your role is to provide guidelines and information on issues related to the impact of the present transportation systems on the environment, in general, and the local populations, in particular. Analyse and discuss how this kind of impact can be prevented, if not, minimised. At the same time, link the most efficient approach in implementing renewable energy systems such as biofuel production and electricity generation to be used for the new transport system you are presently advising and supporting to replace the old one. The new system should confirm to sustainability in relation to the economic, social and environmental issues. By doing so, you may need to establish a monitoring scheme and an enforcement programme.

Provide a critical analysis related to the present system:

• Harmful Waste Materials

• Air Pollution

• Noise

• Land Take

Now days the pollution of the environment has increased in a rapid manner. The transport system has the great impact on the pollution of the environment because of the burns of the petroleum product. Due to this impact of such a huge range of the pollution the health issues also becomes the matter of concern. The impact of the environment is categorized into three categories (Triantis and Maddox, 1956):

Direct Impacts: Under the direct impact it includes the recent consequence that affects the environment in a very maximum rate.

Indirect impacts: The indirect impact is the secondary impact of the environment due to the environment. The consequences of the indirect impact are much powerful in nature than the direct impact, and the effects of the relationship are misunderstood and also become the matter of the difficulty to establish.

Cumulative impacts: The cumulative impacts concern both the direct and the indirect impacts of the environment which is the indirect multiplicative of the both the direct and the indirect impact (Patricios and Stretton, 1980).

The main approach to this assignment focused on the impact of the environment. It mainly includes the transport related environmental issues like the noise pollution, air pollution, reduction of the harmful waste materials, land take, etc (Ameh, 2014).

The modernization and the rapid growth of the world have both the advantages and the disadvantages. In the disadvantage part, the main issues of the concern are – land, air, and water. The solid waste material that causes the harmful effect on the environment is mainly the solid waste materials of the industry. The exposure of these harmful wastes, which cannot be decomposed affect the human health. As a result, it can cause the serious diseases and on the other side it is the environment issues that can lead to the chemical poisoning of the environment. Under the topic of the harmful waste materials, there come some of the points as the waste materials of the agriculture and the industries which obstruct the flow of the water resulting the formation of the stagnant water. It becomes the good place of the breeding of the deadly diseases. Direct disposal of the untreated substances from the industries to the rivers, seas results in the accumulation of the toxic substance and after that it becomes used in our food chain because both the animals and the plants are served with this water. Disposal of the waste materials of the hospitals to the environment can create the serious health issues. These types of the waste come from the laboratories, hospitals, health care center etc. In these waste materials it includes the disposal of the used syringe, bandages, plaster etc.

Air Pollution

In the prevention of these harmful wastes to cause the dangerous impact on both the health and the environment there should be needed for the implementation of the waste treatment plant so that after the disposal of all the industrial waste can go to these plant so that the treatment can be done so that it cannot effect the environment before coming in contact with the environment. The waste materials should be disposed of to any of the particular areas so that it cannot effect the environment and after the disposal it needs to be filling that dumped place. Recycling can also be done of the but if it is not done in the proper way it can also effect the environment. Some of the things that cannot be recycled are plastic that is causing the severe damage to the environment, syringe, etc.

Alongside by harming the human health, air pollution can also the serious effects on the environment also. Some of the environmental effects of the air pollution are listed below:

Ozone depletion: we all know ozone is the layer of the gas in the earth’s upper layer which is also known as stratosphere. Ozone gas forms a particular layer that affects the Earth from the UV rays of the sun. But this protecting layer is now depleting due to the man-made chemicals that are also known as the ozone layer depleting. It also causes some of the health issues that includes skin cancer, cataracts, etc.

Changes of the global climate: due to this imbalance of the environment it occurs the severe changes of the climate. To balance this environment there are some naturally occurring gas which traps the excess of the sun rays so that it prevents the earth forms this excess heat that is also known as global warming and the protected phenomenon is known as green house effect. Due to this global warming the amount of the rainfall also decreases at a maximum rate (Domańska and Wojtylak, 2014).

To prevent these changes of the environment it is needed to plant more trees so that it can balance the atmosphere and also bring the rainfall that can give the cooling effects to the environment (Othman et al., 2014). Needs to reduce the numbers cars and bikes form the road through which the fumes of the petroleum can be decreased and also can use the vehicles that are using most the renewable energy such as wind energy and solar energy. Here it needs to minimize the emission of the smoke which can severely cause the environment directly. Avoid the burning of the house hold garbage’s on own which emits the smoke in a very maximum in number. At last needs to follow the rules and the regulation on the daily basis so that the environment pollution can be reduced to some extent (Sax and Goodman, 2014). It requires implementing the advanced technology to control the air pollution.  Some of these are fabric filter, wet scrubbers, etc. (Climate science: Warming could boost air pollution, 2014).

Noise

The disturbing or the excessive of the noise may effect or harm the natural balance of the human, and the animal life is referred to as the noise pollution. There are some of the effects of the noise pollution which are described below (Morgul and Dal, 2012):

Transport system: Excess numbers of the vehicles, underground trains, etc. produce the excess amount of the noise that leads to the massive noise pollution. These types of the noise sometimes reduce the hearing capability of the human.

Industrialization: Industries are using the some of the large machines that produce the excess amount of the sound. If the industries are placed in the rural areas, it can cause the severe effects of the environment which results in the loss of the hearing capacity of the people. So to reduce this type effects the workers are must see doing work by wearing the ear plug (Michel and Rutherford, 2014).

Construction activities: Some of the construction activities like construction of the dams, mine, bridge, roads, etc. which is very common in the every place of the world also effect the environment severely. It also creates the disturbances in the human life. The equipments that are used for these large constructions are also very noisy in nature.

Poor urban planning: urban planning also plays the most important part in the noise pollution. Congested structure of the house, the large structure of the families in a small space, occurrence of the frequent fights also creates the negative impacts on the environment of the society.

Some of the steps that prevent the noise pollution are listed below (Mutairi, 2012):

• To use the car horns when needed unless no need to beep the horns.
• Keep the switch off the TV, radio, etc. if nobody is watching so that it cannot cause the unnecessary sound pollution.
• Plants more numbers of trees and plants that help in reducing the sound by absorbing the maximum percentage of the sound (Olayinka, 2012).
• Cutting the large usage of the DJ, public function, etc. so that it can reduce the pollution of the noise to some extent and also use the loudspeakers into the considerable amount.
• Strengthening the laws to control the noise pollution and also makes it punishable if anybody violates the laws (Duncan, 2014).

Land take is the other name of the land pollution. It tells about the destruction of the land surfaces or the misuse of the land resources on the direct or the indirect basis. Land pollution is also classified into the various categories some of them are given below:

Throwing of the solid types of the wastes like plastics, papers, and also the some of the things which are not biodegradable in nature acquires the places in more amounts which also lead to the land pollution (Chen and Ye, 2014). As the things are not, get easily decomposed they are getting piled up for the many years that get the harmful effects of the land. Some of the causes of the land take or land pollution is given below:

Soil erosion and deforestation: Both the soil erosion and the deforestation are the matter of concern for now days. Plants and the trees are cutting down at a very rapid rate that is resulting in both the soil erosion and the deforestation. One of the main reasons of this land take is the land conversion that means the modification or the alteration of the natural land to the suitable land so that it becomes worthy for the specific purpose. Due to this the destruction of the land occurs. Lack age of the rainfall is the cause of the soil erosion, and the deforestation is the reason of the shortage of the rainfall (Kleiber, 2012).

Agricultural purpose: as now days the rate of the increase in the human population is growing very fast so gradually the demand of the food is also increasing. To meet this demand, the farmer are using many of the toxic fertilizers and also the many of the other substance so that they can protect the plant from the acts of the pest and insects. So the use of these types of medicine affects the soil abruptly.

Industrialization: The rates of the industry are also growing very fast to meet the daily needs of the human. It also creates the much numbers of the disposal of the waste material on the land which is also the one of the main reason of the land pollution. As the used chemicals and medicine is highly toxic so that the direct disposal of these types of waste makes the soil highly contaminated (Chen and Wei, 2014).

Construction purpose: as the urbanization is also increasing so the naturally the amount of the construction is increasing gradually. Due to this construction the plants and the trees are cutting down miserably. And also the waste articles like bricks, woods, plastic are covering the most areas and also contaminating the land in a major rate.

Nuclear waste materials: Nuclear plants are also producing the huge amount of the energy by nuclear fission and the fusion. After this producing all the waste materials are also becoming very toxic in nature that after coming to the contact with the nature becomes very toxic for the environment and the people (Bradley, 2012).

 Human health effects: as the land becomes contaminated with the toxic materials it also affects the human health by leading to the skin cancer, problem with the respiratory system which leads to the major effects in the human health (Krüger, Mrotzek and Wirtz, 2014).

To prevent the land pollution needed to take some of the major steps that can reduce the land pollution to some extent:

• Minimize the use of the insecticides, fertilizers and the pesticides in the time of the agriculture because the much use of these types of materials makes the land contaminated and also harmful for the environment.
• Use of the biodegradable product so that it can easily decompose and not causes any type of the environmental issues.
• Needs to organize the campaign, programs, etc. so that people can get aware of this type of problem and also the concept of Reduce, Recycle and Reuse (Cincinelli et al., 2012).

Some of the recommendations for preventing the environment pollution are given bellow:

1. It needs to achieve the objectives by the appropriate combination of some or most of the following means by doing the efficient use of the energy, by strictly controlling the emissions of the air pollutant and also to increase the energy of the non-fossil sources.

2. It needs to refer to some of the guidance principles that are set out below, which becomes the most of the important part of the recommendation to control the environmental pollution.

3. It needs to pursue the more policies which are needs to control the pollution more effectively at an acceptable level to decrease the pollution of the environment.

Conclusion

Thus, to conclude it can be said that the study appropriately identified the overall effects of the environmental pollution and also discusses the prevention of the environmental pollution. The study also explained how to maintain these steps of the prevention so that it can reduce the pollution to some extent. In addition, it also discusses the issues that are occurring due to the rise of the pollution. Further, the study also appropriately also explained  the issues how they are affecting the human and also to what extent the human health are also getting effected by this type of environmental pollution (McCrink-Goode, 2014).

In this assignment I represented the whole about of the types, causes and the prevention of the pollution of the environment. In the above study I describe elaborately all about how prevention are needed to be taken if the prevention of the environment are not taken what are the major issues are reflected due to the pollution. First of all I describe about the pollution of the environment which causes by the harmful waste materials, air pollution and the soil pollution or land take and also describe the main reason of these types of pollutions. By doing this study I also get to know about many things of the pollutions which is not known to me to that elaborate extent. I get shocked to know that how the waste materials of the hospitals, industries and also the house hold work are disposed openly to the bare land and by that how the environment and the human are gets effected. How the ozone layer are getting depleted due to the increase of the maximum percentage of the air pollution and due to this how the environment and the human are getting effected with the UV rays which are coming from the sun. I also get to know that the vegetables which we are consuming are getting affected and also becoming toxic due to these different types of the pollution which are causes in our environment. By getting the ideas about the pollution I also acquire the ideas of the prevention of these pollutions to some extent because I know that the pollutions cannot be removed from the environment in a full manner. So we needs to take steps how to tell the people and also makes them more conscious about the pollution so that everybody can take the daily measure to protect the environment because it is all about us only. To makes the people more conscious there needs to make the people more conscious and also the people who do not know about these there needs to organize the campaign, awareness program so that they can about the whole disadvantage about this types of pollution and also have the proper idea about the prevention. I feel that mostly in the rural side they needs to organize and to take the drastic steps to give the whole knowledge about the pollutions which will helps them in a greater way. I also get to know that how the rural people excessively polluting the environment because they don’t have that much of knowledge about the pollutions. So there needs to organize the campaign program where they can actively take part and also know the prevention and also how to take that prevention in a more appropriate way. So I suggested that everybody needs to do some things on their daily basis so that it can improve the environment in such a little extent on their daily basis and also needs to be remembering that it is only for us not for others as we all live in this environment only.

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