Conservation and development of sustainable community
Definitions of conservation, are many and various. The earliest sense of the word was no doubt that used in physics as in:-
“When a quantity (eg- electric charge, energy or momentum) is conserved, it is the same after a reaction between particles as it was before.”
At the “Landfill Site” web site, we use it in a much broader sense which also encompasses the concept of a sustainable community, as follows:-
“Preserving and renewing, when possible, human and natural resources. The use, protection, and improvement of natural resources according to principles that will ensure their highest economic and/or social benefits.”
Conservation suggests preservation, and the avoidance of change whereas “sustainability”, while embodying the same concepts of continuity through future generations, does not necessarily entail preservation and is much more open to change.
At the “Landfill Site” web site our mission is to promote conservation and the development of sustainable community.
Conservation and the development of sustainable community, cannot be achieved without effective waste collection and disposal for the waste residue after waste minimisation, and recycling, now and progressively much more waste processing and treatment, before the very much reduced volume is then sent to landfills.
If waste is not collected in any community there is a very obvious degradation of the environment and this begins to become apparent almost immediately after such services cease. Conservation, even in the sense of “preservation” cannot be maintained for long as any community would start to bury itself below it’s own waste.
Quality of life deteriorates very visibly from a lack of waste collection, however, as now fully realised including throughout the EU, without proper waste disposal, the same also applies.
When there is an over reliance on landfill, groundwater quality and air emissions will clearly be impacted negatively, and the rate that land is needed to be utilised for landfilling becomes unsustainable.
It is salutary to think that so much of our precious land is already almost permanently lost for most other uses, and that many old landfills are now being re-categorised as contaminated land.
Extrapolate current UK landfill usage forward by several hundred years and the pre-2000 rate of landfilling can be seen clearly as simply unsustainable.
Browse this web site and you will see some of the ways in which we try to promote conservation and the development of sustainable community.
Try other links to sustainability led web sites below:-
www.climate-change.me.uk
www.compost.me.uk
www.enarobic-digestion.com
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