Timed Paragraph ( Land filling or Zero waste scheme?)

Waste disposing schemes are important in order to manage waste in any nation in order to keep a country clean. There are two waste disposing schemes that play a significant role in most countries, developed and developing countries alike, which are the 'zero waste' scheme and the land filling scheme. In my opinion, the 'zero waste' scheme is suitable to be implemented to manage waste in my country.

There are many differences between these two systems. The land filling scheme is where waste is dumped in to an allocated site. As for the zero waste scheme, waste is to be reused or recycled. This system emphasises on reducing waste products, if possible, to a zero percent. The zero waste scheme is expensive as waste need to be sorted out to materials that can be reused or recycled, and materials that are completely useless. When we use these criteria , the zero waste system may seem to be not preferable as high cost has to be born by the waste management company and the general public. The land filling scheme is cheap as all the waste need to be dumped at the the dump site without undergoing any processes. So, initially this land filling scheme would seems to be a tempting choice of scheme when we see it in the cost perspective.

The land filling scheme has many environmental effects. One of it is that these land filling dump sites are very ideal place for disease causing organisms and microorganism to breed. This would threaten the lives of not only humans but also other living beings. The worst case scenario created by this scheme is a serious epidemic. Other than that, this scheme would cause waste to seep in to underground rivers or groundwater source which would cause the water supply to be contaminated. This would reduce the number of clean water sources.

Even though the 'zero waste' scheme might seem to be expensive, there are many benefits that we can get from this system. As this system emphasises in the term 'reuse and recycle', new industry would sprout to support this scheme. The recycling industry would get a shot in the arm as the supply of recyclable materials accumulated would increase. This would also benefit the environment as recycling materials are more environmental friendly than producing or manufacturing materials from newly extracted materials. For example, in the aluminium manufacturing industry, recycled aluminium consumes only 1% of the electricity needed to extract and process aluminium from aluminium core. When less electricity is consumed,then less coal would be burned to produce electricity and this would reduce air pollution significantly. This might a very ideal situation where other factors are neglected but when you you see the picture as a whole, you will see that the use of energy would reduce significantly in most manufacturing industries and hence it is possible to reduce air pollution.

The zero waste scheme is an ideal scheme for the current age as resources are depleting significantly and there is high awareness on preserving the environment. In conclusion, I stress again that the 'zero waste' scheme is suitable to be implemented in Malaysia.