The Importance Of Waste Management In The Bahamas

Introduction

Waste Management is the steps the country takes to recycle or dispose of waste. Yet is waste management under control in the Bahamas? As one of the major destination for tourism the Bahamas is not as eco-friendly as it should be and this should not be the case because what would happen if the Bahamas natural resources were destroyed? So what is the Bahamas doing to ensure that a catastrophe does not occur in the Bahamas? The Bahamas has implemented the use of dumpsite, but are these dumpsite helping the problem or causing the problem. Landfills are disposable units created man it is use by proper burying the waste. In the Bahamas there are landfills on every island but in New Providence there is one for the whole island which

The amount of destruction one landfill can cause to a human life and the environment is too much to say that landfills are actually beneficial to the country. Landfill is actually a thorn to the early side and to any country that harbor’s this waste management system. The sooner the system is eradicated from this world the better it will become. Runoffs, is the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of a section of land, building or structure (Webster dictionary). However, it does sound like something that can devastating thing but it is. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about landfills is a hole which is dug and all the waste produce that is collected is thrown in the hole until management seeks to do something about it. However, there are many things that can happen during this period on waiting, and one of those thing can be rain. In every county and every land there is something called ground water, and many country use as a main source of life. Ground water are formed via two way one is by steams the other is by rain fall; because of

The proper way a landfill is supposed to be manage is by a proper burial; however, in the Bahamas it is know that the burning is used to get rid of the waste which bring us to air pollution. The burning of the garbage disposal beings forth the many condition because of the fumes being produced by the fires. These fume are extremely harmful to human and can cause the life expectancy of a human to shorten. There are also the gas that is release in land fill one of these gases is call Methane which is naturally generated from bacteria metabolizing organic matter. It also potent in the greenhouse effect; however despite this gas being a part of the gas produce the gas itself is very dangerous: It is a fire hazard and can even be explosively because it colorless and odor less which mean the gas is often not noticeable, which mean if the land fill is not properly manage the landfill can cause a fire. According to Larry Smith the last time the dump explodes was March of 2014 which mean there is a change for the dump to explode again. Also another aspect in the smoke and the fumes it is depleting the ozone layer with this and the fumes it can cause a great increase in the cancer