Tag: trash

Non-organic waste: the most outstanding pupil

9 November, 2014

We already know that waste can only be the product or result of human activity and that depending on who we are and where we live, we generate one kind of waste or another. One of the most common classifications of waste we found it divided into two major types according to their composition: organic and non-organic.

We will take a look at the non-organic waste. Briefly, all defined as inorganic waste has NO biological origin, on the other side, is industrial in nature or derived from some other artificial process, for example, plastics, synthetic fabrics, etc. The non-organic waste is by definition NOT decompose materials naturally or take a long time to degrade, such as plastic, glass, paper and metals.

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Waste: nature or use?

30 September, 2014

When we try to approach the reality of a concept – or its multiple realities – one of the first search we do leads us, almost by accident, to the mother of all encyclopedias, now in search-engines one of the first sources of reference worldwide: Wikipedia . According to it, waste is any unwanted material or product considered as reject and that needs to be removed because it doesn’t have any economic value. But is this statement true? Does waste really not have any economic value?

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