WASTE MANAGEMENT

Waste Management

Waste Management

Waste can be defined as unwanted material, or as material that the holder disposes of or intends to dispose. The distinction between wastes and resources depends on one's willingness and technical ability to reuse artifacts and materials. One person's waste can be another person's resources. Industrial mass manufacture and modern packaging have led to a dramatic and still ongoing boost in the variety and volume of the waste produced by households, industrial concerns, and other workplaces. Such waste includes various categories of hazardous waste, such as anthropotoxic, ecotoxic, infectious, and radioactive waste. (Rodgers, 2005)

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This part of the paper discusses how the needs assessment process would be conducted which focuses on assessing the current problems related to trash management in the community. The planning process must begin with a careful evaluation of the needs, interests, and desires of community members. By taking these considerations into account, I as a Health Educator will attempt to determine the community's problems which is trash management so that they can develop services that would help fill the gaps in the current delivery system. trash management is related to Community need which refers to a condition that negatively affects the health of persons in the community. I will just follow the following steps to conduct the needs assessment.

Data Collection (I will read the stats, meet community members and read articles).

Decision Making (decide to go or not; if yes, use the data to create a trash management plan).

Determine a plan for gathering data (decide whom you will contact and what to read).

Infer information from the given data I gathered

Recognize a need or information to examine a reason of the problem (I will need information about a the current status of trash management).

I will also use the following tools to perform a needs assessment. I can also use a mixture of the tools listed. Every assessment is different.

Focus groups: Another approach is a focus group. Somewhat like the interview, the trainer identifies key people who can provide information about the need.

Informal discussions: In this approach, the trainer gathers data about training needs through informal conversations with other employees, supervisors, and managers in the organization.

Interviews: The trainer uses this technique/tool to identify people who can provide information about the need and then interviews them.

Knowledge tests: Tests are beneficial in helping trainers identify what to include in a knowledge-based program.

Observation: ...