Communities ensure the operational management of waste collection and processing. Choosing the right bins to install in public spaces encourages good behavior and selective sorting. How to choose this essential piece of street furniture?
Selective sorting bins come in several forms to distinguish the different waste streams:
glass
paper and cardboard
plastic
scrap metal and metal
wood
In public spaces, along a sidewalk or near a bus station, a 3-stream bin is enough to recycle most of the products thrown away. Scrap metal and wood are generally added to activity zones or near company buildings. Since 2016, professionals must apply the 5-stream sorting of their waste. In addition, local authorities are targeted by a decree, which provides for the transition to 7-stream sorting of waste.
The colors of selective sorting
Each new waste stream must be clearly identifiable by users, professionals and individuals. The majority of them have integrated the yellow and green that adorn the paper/cardboard and glass bins.
But some colors are less well-known and not always harmonized across the territory. This disparity is the result of different sorting procedures from one municipality to another, from one region to another, etc. The harmonization of the color of trash cans is part of the provisions of the anti-waste law for a circular economy.
Style, materials… Other criteria for choosing your public trash can
Outdoor trash cans are also chosen for their ability to withstand and adapt to their environment.
Trash bag holders
The trash bag holder is regularly set up as part of a sustainability plan. Coupled with transparent bags, these trash cans leave the contents visible from the outside. These solutions are very widespread in sensitive places and axes: train stations, tourist sites, museums, administration, etc.).
Openwork or perforated trash cans
Openwork or perforated trash cans also play with transparency, but for an essentially aesthetic purpose. These solutions blend more easily into their installation environment.
The most emblematic model is certainly the tulip bin that is regularly found in public gardens.
Metal trash cans
Metal trash cans are regularly used in urban areas. Simple and robust, these products can be installed anywhere without difficulty.
Public metal trash cans are generally made from galvanized steel. A particularly strong material that is resistant to the outdoor climate.
Wooden trash cans
Street furniture meets wood in most green urban spaces. Trash cans are no exception. Wood is also an ecological, durable and recyclable material.
It is not uncommon to find this natural material in a metal core. The product then combines the advantages of both materials.
Concrete trash cans
Resistant, modern and not very dirty, concrete is a material of choice for making trash cans for public spaces.
Concrete trash cans are resistant to fire, damage, bad weather, frost, UV rays, etc. Perfectly suited to outdoor hazards, concrete is also a material with a sober and contemporary aesthetic.
HDPE plastic trash cans
High-density polyethylene (HDPE) makes it possible to design very basic city trash cans. They can nevertheless be worked in different designs to accompany the architectural style of the site. The structure of the HDPE gives these bins good resistance to UV and bad weather.
Bins, container shelters, ashtrays… Concrete furniture for all your junk disposal uses!
Junk disposal companies of Iowa support you in the installation of qualitative and incentive street furniture. They favor simple and timeless shapes. Their public concrete bins come in different styles: with or without cover, front opening like a mailbox, ground socket or not… Depending on the model, you can also combine concrete with metal by opting, for example, for a stainless steel lid.
They also offer concrete ashtrays and container shelters of all sizes to meet the different needs of communities in a given area. For a building, a large residential complex or an activity zone, they offer public ashtrays, with or without a collector, and large-capacity container shelters. You will also find more compact ones to install in parks or near a busy natural site.
All the parts in the cleanliness range are made in Iowa. Designed to last, these elements are fireproof and cut in a fine and elegant style to support the community in the long term.
For all the waste in the house, it is advisable to adopt the best attitude in environmental matters. Here is information to easily identify how to better sort them, in order to recycle waste in an eco-friendly responsible way and to reduce pollution.
Waste, household and similar, is of different natures and consists of different materials. But they are all residues of daily activity and intended to be thrown in the trash. They gather non-recyclable household waste, dry, so-called wet, organic or fermentable recyclable waste, glass, and bulky or hazardous waste.
Dry recyclable waste
Plastic waste
Plastic represents 11% of our trash in California. Its character, non-biodegradable, makes its recycling all the more important. It would be better to drastically reduce the use of it, even banish it.
Valuation: Even if this still remains quite partial and difficult, its development is continuous. Today it allows the creation, among other things, of flower trays, hats, scarves, or even opaque bottles and oil cans.
Sorting concerns water bottles, flasks or cans of household products. Polystyrene trays, plastic bags and films, oil bottles, yoghurt pots must be excluded.
Steel and aluminum
The recycling of steel and aluminum is all the more important as this waste is very voracious in energy. Today, all steel articles contain on average 60% recycled steel. These are the coins, the supermarket trolleys, tin cans, etc. All empty packaging, aluminum and steel, can be recycled;
Aerosols such as solvents or insecticides, spray paint, or very dirty steel packaging should not be thrown into the same bin.
Paper waste
Representing more or less 22% of our trash in 2012, paper cardboard is the first dry recyclable waste. Its treatment is easy, efficient and contributes to supplying papermakers with recycled fibres. Recovery: Whether it is recycled household packaging or packaging for food liquids, newspapers or other, their recycling allows the production of corrugated or flat cardboard, toilet paper or, again, wrapping paper, or cellulose wadding. Sorting concerns all newspapers, sheets of paper and clean boxes,
Paper handkerchiefs, paper towels, disposable plates and food papers, fax paper, stickers, window envelopes when they are not vegetable (often difficult to identify) should be avoided.
Organic recyclable waste
Completely biodegradable, organic waste concerns all peelings, leftovers, bread or garden waste. These green and fermentable waste can be deposited on the platforms forms of composting at the recycling center or recycling personally. Indeed, if you have a vermicomposter, they can be added regularly to obtain a very rich compost, useful for your various plantations.
Glass recycling
Glass is very easily recycled and already accounted for 13% of our trash in 2018. Sorting concerns all glasses (bottles, pots or jars) insofar as they have been rinsed before and must be placed in containers or glass collection bins.
On the other hand, glass recycling does not include culinary glass and tableware. Indeed their chemical composition does not allow them to be incorporated into cullet (crushed glass debris and cleaned) used in glass furnaces.
What to do with bulky or hazardous waste
Hazardous waste
The qualification of hazardous waste depends on the different legislations national and at the state of California level. It concerns flammable elements, explosives, irritants, harmful, toxic, carcinogenic, corrosive, infectious but also mutagens (trichloroethylene solvent), and requires specialized dumpster rentals.
Most of them are very polluting and a large part are poorly recycled. However, this does not mean throwing them down the sink, the toilet, the gutter or in his garden. The right attitude is to conduct these elements well locked up in the recycling center closest to you.
Among the very common uses of hazardous products, batteries are highly polluting elements that contain heavy metals and toxic. Don’t throw them in the trash. You have several solutions to get rid of it. The dump, a collection point in town hall or in a supermarket are the possibilities that are offered to you.
Bulky waste
All waste that does not fit in the bin or is too bulky is considered bulky items. Rubble, scrap metal, old bicycles, bedding, furniture but also small and large appliances, they may contain heavy metals such as lead or asbestos.
The eco-attitude is then to take them to the recycling center. You can also make an appointment with the Long Beach municipal services, which often have a bulky waste removal system!
The ideal solution: no or less waste
Today, Californian residents recycle better and better their waste but fail to reduce their number. Yet there are extremely simple solutions to reduce our environmental footprint.
While continuing the work of sorting, doing it correctly to avoid contaminating an entire batch of waste and causing a sorting process additionally, an eco-attitude could be:
favoring, for example, eco-refills for detergents or printer cartridges,
to opt for large format products with less packaging,
choose natural cleaning products and solid cosmetics to limit plastic packaging,
or by limiting the printing of various documents.
We are millions and this is our strength. So all the little gestures you can do in terms of consumption and recycling count!
There is a very wide range of advice on its site for reducing its waste. Throw away less, by limiting food waste, by buying well and by equipping yourself intelligently are also effective solutions.
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7 million children under the age of 5 die each year from environmental pollution.
The pollution of our planet does not only have an impact on the environment, it also obviously affects humans and especially children. This is what this recent statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) says, stressing that 1.7 million children under the age of 5 die each year from pollution.
There are many causes. The WHO estimates that 570,000 children die each year from infections linked to the respiratory system, which are directly linked to indoor and outdoor pollution, as well as passive smoking. 361,000 children die before the age of 5 due to illnesses linked to diarrhea, contracted due to poor access to clean water and, in fact, good hygiene. The remaining 600,000 deaths, detailed by WHO, include problems linked to water and air pollution, but also to diseases directly linked to the environment, such as malaria.
Between 11 and 14% of Children Have Asthma
Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, explains that a polluted environment is deadly, especially for young children. Their developing organs, immune systems, bodies and smaller airways make them much more vulnerable to pollution and polluted water. WHO also highlights the negative consequences of these problems, which have a real impact on the growth of children around the world.
In fact between 11% and 14% of children suffer from asthma, 44% of these cases are linked to pollution. Without forgetting the chemicals present in food, such as pesticides composed of fluoride, lead and mercury, and other toxic substances, like paints containing lead. The growing increase in electronic waste is also alarming WHO.
Invest in a Greener World
Maria Neira, director of the WHO Department of Public Health said that a polluted environment has a very negative impact on the health of our children. Investing in the elimination of environmental risks, by improving water quality or using less polluting fuels, will bring huge health benefits. The world needs better better waste management solutions in order to combat that rampant pollution problem.
The solutions presented by the organization aim to renew urban environments with the improvement of public structures such as hospitals and schools, the increase of green areas and public transport in cities, as well as the phase out of pesticides and chemicals in several household cleaning products.
Can algorithms help fight noise pollution
You will have to train them first.
Scientists want to reduce noise pollution by using algorithms. Through a network involving computers and citizens, they want to identify the sounds that accumulate in New York.
Air conditioning, car horn, street music, sirens: what if we taught computers to recognize the different sounds of noise pollution? This is the objective pursued by Sonyc in New York, a project carried out by a group of scientists.
Their work, presented in the journal Communications of the ACM in February 2019, is based on the use of sensors and a machine listening system. It consists of training algorithms to recognize the sounds of New York City in real time.
A Network of Acoustic Sensors
The tool must therefore be trained to describe precisely what is the origin of the noises that pollute the sound environment of New Yorkers. The sounds will be recorded by the acoustic sensors, which are manufactured using Raspberry Pi nanocomputers and microphones. Each unit costs around 80 dollars to produce.
The inventors of Sonyc also want citizens to participate in the process, by passing noise deemed undesirable to an application (which has not yet been developed). Its users will be able to view data annotated by other people. One of the objectives would also be to be able to alert the authorities through the app.
The result of all these observations could then be presented to the competent authorities, in order to better identify the urban areas subject to certain types of noise pollution, a road axis regularly congested, for example. For the time being, the creators of this system have yet to deploy and test it in real conditions. They hope the results will allow Sonyc to be used across the United States.
And humans are not the only ones to suffer from noise pollution: some animals must adapt as well to continue living in the city.
It’s easy to see what are the causes of obesity on the surface; consuming more than what you can burn through physical exertion and activity will lead to weight gain and/or obesity. Though this is true, it may not be the entire case.
Each and every one of us are different – from the way we look, move, speak and act. Even our preference with food is different. These all are stemming from our genetic make up. And the risk factors that cause obesity can be a combination of genes, lifestyle choices and metabolic factors. Health conditions can also contribute to weight gain.
Genes
Is your mom and dad fit? Is one of them obese? Studies say that “fat genes” are real. You can inherit obesity from your parents if one of them is overweight or obese. If one or both of your parents is obese, you are 25% more likely to become obese yourself.
The areas where you carry weight depend on your heredity as well. If one of your parents carry the weight in the middle or hips area, you are most likely to get that too.
Choices in Lifestyle
If you are living a very sedentary lifestyle, even if you’re eating healthily, you are most likely to still gain some weight. Making sure that you burn more than what you eat will help you stay fit. Life choices is an extremely important factor when it comes to preventing or treating obesity.
If you prefer sugary, high in fat, refined foods, chances are you’ll still gain the pounds. As people prefer to eat-and-go, more people tend to choose fast food. This is not the kind of lifestyle you should take. A balanced diet and controlled portions should be your choice.
Metabolic System and Hormones
The calories from the food we eat becomes the energy we use to fuel our bodies. Though all of us use calories as the basic energy unit, we all metabolize differently. This means, the way you expend energy may not be the same as your sister’s. Metabolic rate is different for everyone. However, it also plays a vital role in determining your weight.
This is also the same with hunger. Hunger can also be triggered by hormones – even though you just ate 30 minutes ago. Hunger and appetite is dependent on how much ghrelin is released in your body. Hormones also play a part in the feeling of fullness.
Treating Obesity For Adults
Setting a goal is the important part in treating obesity. While some people may want to lose weight due to fashion, societal or vanity reasons, it is a must that losing as little as 10% of your current body weight will have a huge improvement in your health. The positive effects of losing as little as 10 pounds will alleviate some stress on your organs. No two people are alike.
A weight loss plan for you may not work for the other. Stick to a plan that works for you. The best method in losing the weight is to take it slowly. Often times, quick loss will spur up weight gain as soon as you slow down. Planning for a 2 lbs loss per week is more preferable. If you keep this course for the next 3 years, you’ll lose around 70 lbs for good.
In the end, it is the life choices that you make that will matter. Obesity is not easy to treat, as obesity can also affect your mentality and emotions. As mentioned, setting a goal is very important, but staying on the goal is the key to a successful weight loss. If you are an individual who is suffering with obesity, check with your physician on options that you can take to become better.
