Lavajet - How Innovative Technologies Have Improved Waste

Giancarlo Vedeo · January 11, 2016 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/428e

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Over the last several years, waste management companies have incorporated innovative technologies in how solid waste is processed and recycled. Innovative technologies have helped create energy from waste and ensure that waste material is disposed of in ways that do not harm the environment. Lavajet is a leading waste management company that was established in Varazze (SV) – Italy in 1990. Over the last 25 years, the company has extended its operations to other countries and has become a global player in the waste management industry.

Zero Waste

“Zero Waste” is considered to be a philosophy rather than a technology in waste management. The Zero Waste International Alliance defines Zero Waste as “a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use.”

The Zero Waste innovation works with designing and managing products to methodically eliminate the toxicity and volume of solid waste, and to recover and conserve all resources, instead of burying or burning them. Zero Waste seeks to eliminate all waste discharges to land and water that are a threat to human and animal life on the planet.

The process seeks to reuse every bit of waste material and convert what cannot be reused into renewable energy. The process also seeks to eliminate the world’s problems of pollution and environmental damage. At first glance, this seems to be an unrealistic process, but several countries around the world have implemented Zero Waste measures to help change the environment, Scotland being one such place where authorities are working towards a “Zero Waste” environment.

Extended Producer Responsibility

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is one of the major challenges in waste management. When it comes to expensive electronic equipment, it is better to have it repaired than to dispose of it in landfills. The complexity and toxicity of electronic and electrical products make it difficult to recycle it, and the rate of production makes it easier to purchase a new product than recycle the old one. To deal with this problem, environmental agencies have come up with the Extended Producer Responsibility, or otherwise known as “Product Stewardship” to manage their “end of life” products. Though this does not remedy the ever-increasing amount of electronic waste piling up in African and Asian countries, it does provide an idea that could be developed in the long run.

Extended producer responsibility puts the onus on the producer to find effective ways to recycle or reuse components of electronic and electrical goods. This helps bring down the burden of waste management companies dealing with toxic material in electronic and electrical products. This offers a more sensible way of recycling parts and using them to build new products of the same type.

Lavajet is a global leader in waste management and is working closely with industry leaders to find and use innovative measures of waste management.

 

 

 

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Giancarlo Vedeo

Giancarlo Vedeo has been a Lavajet executive for many years. He was born in the same city the company was founded, Varazze, Italy, and he works now to in part to keep Varazze clean and beautiful for everyone to enjoy.

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