Prevention of pollution from the water sources. ... Water pollution, unavailability of drinking water, inadequate sanitation, open dumping of waste, and loss of forest cover are some of the related problems. ... They participate in various environmental activities and programmes for a cleaner greener India. ... Action programmes to improve local environmental conditions have been initiated. ... They have assumed responsibility and evolved solutions to their existing environmental problems. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Keywords: e-waste, environmental hazard, occupational hazard, corporate responsibility Introduction Electronic waste or e-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. ... Informal processing of e-waste in developing countries can lead to adverse human health effects and environmental pollution. ... United Nations Environmental Program finds that this is the fastest-growing waste stream all around the world due to increased consumer demand, perceived obsolesce, and rapid changes in technology and inventions of new electronic devices. ... It is legal under the Basel Convention to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

INTRODUCTION Waste is unavoidable in any society, but now we produce more waste than ever before. Around the world, modern civilization has been stuffing its refuse into abandoned mines, canyons and even dumping it in the oceans. Some of it is being incinerated, releasing poisonous gases into...

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• Grade Level: High School

The problem is not only an economic waste issue, food waste also has a huge environmental impacts. ... Going into a economic or environmental perspective would have been quite obvious and would also allow us to use more economic theories. ... Publications by the European Environmental Agency were used to put into perspective where the UK is currently at in relation to food waste versus where they committed to being at in the future. ...

• Word Count: 10889
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• Grade Level: High School