Concept in Definition ABC

We understand by waste all those elements or components that lose usefulness and must therefore be discarded. Normally, the word waste is used to refer to household waste, those generated by the consumption from food and other products. However, it can also be applied to other more complex types of waste such as those that remain from the use of certain chemicals or products in factories. Waste can also be the remains or disposable elements of a chemical operation.

When we talk about waste we are always implying that they must be properly treated so that their polluting or disposable component does not harm the environment in which living beings inhabit. This is why it must be placed in the places specifically designated for it, or be kept apart as long as its contamination or dangerousness is not accessible.

Domestic waste is perhaps the most common and recognizable by the common public. Among them we can find organic waste (remains of food, natural products, paper, etc.), inorganic waste such as plastic, glass, derivatives of plastic, etc. Although most of this waste can be recycled or used as compost, generating too much of it systematically damages the planet.

Then we must also mention the residuals of type pathological or dangerous. These wastes cannot be recycled or reused and must be carefully treated as they can transmit diseases, virus or cause serious damage to health (for example, when it comes to industrial, chemical, radioactive waste, etc.). Paradoxically, these are the wastes that industries and factories often dump in training courses. Water or in the I usually due to the lack of sanctions or control over them, without taking into account the danger potential that can be caused on different populations.