SUST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Living Machine, Extended Producer Responsibility, Compost

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Sustainability
• Course: SUST 100
• Professor: Matthew Nelson

Document Summary

Air pollution: mostly from fossil fuels, carried by winds into rural areas, health effects - 2. 4 million people die from effects of prolonged exposure to air pollution. Reduction in output: estimated that msw could be reduced by 80, reductions in packaging, canada leads the world in trash per capita, agricultural waste is one of the largest. 4th layer- soil: trash layed on top, when full; capped off and then a pipe is put in to release the gas, that gas can then be used for. Layed until full power or to just be flamed of. Incinerators: tons of euphemisms (waste to energy, gasification, pyrolysis, pros -> useful for biohazard/medical, uses less space than landfills, can be used to produce steam/energy, cons -> releases particulate into air, releases harmful gases, cost to build. > a real solution must involve reducing consumption. Water use reduction: water saving solutions, real cost water prices. Solutions for resource use: end of pipe solutions.