Waste Management

Waste management involves the processes of waste collection, transportation, processing, as well as waste recycling or disposal. Sustainable waste management systems include advanced management strategies to minimize environmental challenges and protect resources

  • $41,484 Average salary
  • 80% Of Men Make Up This Industry
  • 20% Of Women Make Up This Industry
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History & Future

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Future

Waste management's future includes turning waste into energy, IoT-enabled practices, improvement in monitoring systems, data collection, and much more technology-based advancements. smart methods of managing solid waste advance hygiene and sanitation conditions. Correlatively, it mitigates the disease vectors that breed in open waste and improve public health and the quality of life

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History

One of these companies was Waste Management, a Chicago-based enterprise founded in 1968 by Dean Buntrock and Wayne Huizenga through a merger of several garbage companies in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida. In the United States, the modern concept of solid waste management first emerged in the 1890s. By the turn of the 20th century, a growing number of American cities provided at least a rudimentary level of solid waste collection and disposal, and around 1930 virtually all cities offered garbage collection services. Once removed from urban centers, the wastes were disposed of in various ways, including landfills, incineration, and water and ocean disposal. The latter was outlawed in 1933, an industrial and commercial wastes were exempted.