What can you do about chemical waste?
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Start with the references given.\n\nNearly everything we do leaves behind some kind of waste. Households create ordinary garbage. Industrial and manufacturing processes create solid and hazardous waste. The Office of Solid Waste (OSW) regulates all this waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).\n\nRCRA's goals are to: \n\nProtect us from the hazards of waste disposal \nConserve energy and natural resources by recycling and recovery \nReduce or eliminate waste, and \nClean up waste, which may have spilled, leaked, or been improperly disposed. \n\nHazardous waste comes in many shapes and forms. Chemical, metal, and furniture manufacturing are some examples of processes that create hazardous waste. RCRA tightly regulates all hazardous waste from "cradle to grave." RCRA also controls garbage and industrial waste. Common garbage is municipal waste, which consists mainly of paper, yard trimmings, glass, and other materials. Industrial waste is process waste that comes from a broad range of operations. Some wastes are managed by other federal agencies or state laws. Examples of such wastes are animal waste, radioactive waste, and medical waste.\n\nLeftover household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable, or reactive ingredients are considered to be "household hazardous waste" or "HHW." Products, such as paints, cleaners, oils, batteries, and pesticides, that contain potentially hazardous ingredients require special care when you dispose of them. \n\nImproper disposal of household hazardous wastes can include pouring them down the drain, on the ground, into storm sewers, or in some cases putting them out with the trash. The dangers of such disposal methods might not be immediately obvious, but improper disposal of these wastes can pollute the environment and pose a threat to human health. Many communities in the United States offer a variety of options for conveniently and safely managing HHW. For more information on which wastes at home are hazardous refer to the list of common household products with potentially hazardous ingredients.
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You may consider Recycling.\n\nWe are in the export business of Recyclable Waste PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Bottle Flakes. These bottle flakes are used to produce PSF and PSY for the production of yarns and cloths, by mixing recycled flakes with virgin pet-chips, thereby reducing cost of production as well as cleaner environment.\n\nWaste management is the collection, transport, processing (waste treatment), recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A subfocus in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials' effect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them.\n\nWaste management can involve solid, liquid or gaseous with different methods and fields of expertise for each.\n\nWaste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential, industrial, and commercial producers. Waste management for non-hazardous residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator.\n\nWaste management concepts: Waste management has a number of different concepts, which vary in their usage between countries or regions.\n\nThe waste hierarchy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The waste hierarchy classifies waste management strategies according to their desirability. The waste hierarchy has taken many forms over the past decade, but the basic concept has remained the cornerstone of most waste minimisation strategies. The aim of the waste hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of waste.\n\nSome waste management experts have recently incorporated a 'fourth R': "Re-think", with the implied meaning that the present system may have fundamental flaws, and that a thoroughly effective system of waste management may need an entirely new way of looking at waste. Some "re-think" solutions may be counter-intuitive, such as cutting fabric patterns with slightly more "waste material" left -- the now larger scraps are then used for cutting small parts of the pattern, resulting in a decrease in net waste. This type of solution is by no means limited to the clothing industry. Source reduction involves efforts to reduce hazardous waste and other materials by modifying industrial production. Source reduction methods involve changes in manufacturing technology, raw material inputs, and product formulation. At times, the term "pollution prevention" may refer to source reduction.\n\nAnother method of source reduction is to increase incentives for recycling. Many communities in the United States are implementing variable rate pricing for waste disposal (also known as Pay As You Throw - PAYT) which has been effective in reducing the size of the municipal waste stream.\n\nSource reduction is typically measured by efficiencies and cutbacks in waste. Toxics use reduction is a more controversial approach to source reduction that targets and measures reductions in the upstream use of toxic materials. Toxics use reduction emphasizes the more preventive aspects of source reduction but, due to its emphasis on toxic chemical inputs, has been opposed more vigorously by chemical manufacturers. Toxics use reduction programs have been set up by legislation in some states, e.g., Massachusetts, New Jersey and Oregon.\n\nResource recovery: A relatively recent idea in waste management has been to treat the waste material as a resource to be exploited, instead of simply a challenge to be managed and disposed of. There are a number of different methods by which resources may be extracted from waste: the materials may be extracted and recycled, or the calorific content of the waste may be
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garbage dumps filled with people's junk like trashed used cars, cans, bottles, plastic containers, paper, etc. that cannot be broken down quickly or, in some instances, cannot be broken down at all by the action of organic or inorganic forces.
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Clean your harddrive, format it and then use a 3rd party program to repeatively write over your harddrive. Then donate it to a local charity, school, reycling center. \n\nBelieve it or not, some places would welcome a really old computer that can check e-mail and write word processing. Plus you could write it off your taxes, granted not a whole lot, but better then nothing. \n\nThe cell phones are a different story though, same with the printers. Contact the brand and see if there is a place you can recycle them for free. Also, many big cities run eletronic recycling programs. It prevents heavy metals from contaminating water supplies, plus the cities often earn some money from gold extraction.
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OMG EEEEK! jump off a bridge into a vat of toxic waste, hopefully it will reverse this problem lol
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No, the only answer is to reduce waste and recycle.
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certain types of cancerous waste
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That depends a lot on what you mean by saving the world.  If you mean stopping pollution and such, you could join an environmental agency, or start recycling programs.  If you mean ending hunger, you could join a group like World Vision.  If you mean all of these things, well, good luck.
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Domestic Waste:\n\nYou can dig a  3 feet pit. Put all the waste add water again put the  waste add water.let is wait for 5 weeks.You dig back you will\nhave good manure for your plants.\n\nIndustrial Waste:\nDepends on whether it is hazardous or not.So we have to leave it to professionals Or one should become a professional before handling such a thing.
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All space garbage should be recycled and composted into an ecosystem. Thats the complicated set of chemistry questions that goes wtih that particular problem.\n\nUsing large enough diameters and centripetal force we can generate strong enough and stable enough pseudo\ngravity to compensate for that problem. A chemical problem with a civil engineering fix.
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First make a chemical equation, balance it, and find a mole ratio.  Use that ratio and the above information to solve the problem.
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take a large sheet of aluminum foil, spray oven cleaner all over it, fold it up and put it in a 2 liter soda bottle (plastic is safer), tighten the lid and throw it, or stand back. - do this outside.
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U Replace shower heads and faucet aerators with water efficient models.\nU Use a water-filled milk jug or plastic bottle in your toilet tank to displace water; this allows your toilet\nto operate using less water.\nU Choose nonphosphate or low phosphate detergents. High phosphate levels in lakes and streams\ncan kill fish and other wildlife.\nU Use a broom instead of water to clean your driveway or garage . Do not sweep debris into the\nstreet or storm sewer.\nU Put a spray nozzle on the end of your hose for car washing and plant watering to prevent the hose\nfrom continually releasing water and to control the amount of water used.\nU Use native plants in your garden that require less water.\nU Use cat litter or sand instead of salt on icy walks. Salt pollutes water and kills plants.\n\nU Do not let the water run while brushing your teeth or washing your face (you can save up to 5\ngallons).\nU Do not leave the water running if you wash dishes by hand.\nU Rinse all your dishes at once by using a dishrack placed in the sink.\nU Only run your dishwasher and washing machine when they are full.\n\nU Do not open fire hydrants on hot summer days because water needed to fight a fire will not be\navailable in an emergency. Also, opening fire hydrants is illegal.\nU Do not throw in the trash, pour down the drain, or dump on the ground paint, antifreeze, motor oil,\nand other household hazardous wastes, because they can migrate to your water source.\nU Dispose of tissues, dead insects, and other waste in a trash can rather than a toilet.\nU Plant native plants instead of traditional lawn grass to avoid the use of herbicides, pesticides,\nfertilizers.\nU Do not dump used motor oil on the ground or into sewers; throwing motor oil in the trash is illegal.\nRecycling centers and many service stations accept used motor oil for recycling.\nImproving Your Housekeeping\nU Fix leaks by replacing faucet washers and toilet flappers as needed. A slow drip or leak can easily\nwaste more than 100 gallons of water a week, which leads to an unnecessarily high water bill.\nU Put all litter in trash cans so it does not get washed into the storm sewers.\nU Clean up waste products while walking your pets.\nEducating Yourself and Others\nU Educate your community about the effects of dumping waste, such as pesticides, down drains and\ninto waterways.\nU Encourage your neighbors, family, and friends to install low flow water fixtures and to practice\nwater conservation.\n\n\nMaybe you can not stop but it is easy to help decrease pollution.
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We can recycle so that today's garbage could be tomorrow's stuff.\nDon't throw out - recycle!
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''Conservation of land pollution''?\nYou must mean conservation of land, free of pollution.\nObviously is not as simple as the first answer... avoid fertilizers and you'll avoid food.\nBesides there are lot of organic fertilizers if that's your concern... not cheap or practical though.\nMain thing to do is to use non residual herbicides, or at least the less residual ones.\nSame with insecticides, avoid the ones that contain mainly Cl.\nDo not burn straw, kills all the bacterias and worms.\nPlant forestall curtains, etc
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One step at a time. Recycle. Compost.  Talk to your friends about it.  Small steps lead to bigger steps.
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Waste not want not....