Environment Management: Waste Disposal and Loss of Biodiversity

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Environment Management
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Introduction
According to the Bruntdland Report, sustainability has been regarded as the ability to
use and maintain the sustainable resources in such a way that it would deplete the resources
that are available for the future generation (Holden, Linnerud and Banister 2017). Moreover
the concept of sustainability is based on two key concepts that includes the concept of
“needs” and the “limitation” that means limitation should be imposed from utilizing the
whole resources. In the recent day, global issues are enormously rising that is posing major
challenges for the hotel and tourism managers in the near future. The essay elucidates on the
major aspects of two important global challenges that includes waste disposal and loss of
biodiversity and their impact on the hotel and tourism managers in the near future.
Discussion
Environment 1 (Waste Disposal)
Waste disposal also known as the waste management are the activities or methods that
help in the disposal of waste in a proper method. In the recent days, waste around the world
has increased considerable that has led to the major environmental problems. Improper
management of waste severely endangers the environment and the public and other living
creatures are also affected through it (Booker 2014). For instance, biomedical waste and
waste from nuclear waste can cause tremendous health hazards and moreover it is also
disrupting the environment. Moreover the use of plastics in the recent years are creating
global crisis of the disposal of waste and the developed countries ranked more in producing
more waste than the developing countries. Dumping of waste that include plastics,
biomedical waste, chemicals and more in oceans and rivers results in endangering of the lives
of many rare species. As a result many rare species have extinct as a result of the waste

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disposal and environmental challenges. Therefore, waste management is an important
strategy that would help to reduce the waste in a sustainable manner. As per the report, The
National Waste Policy of Australia has implemented strategies to recycle the waste into
renewable resources, so that the environment could be protected. The main aim of waste
management policy is “less waste and more resources” and every country should follow
this in order to maintain a sustainable environment. In order to support the concept of waste
management many laws and policies have been implemented that includes Waste Disposal
Regulation, Waste Disposal Ordinance and more (Gottinger 2018). Apart from this, many
hotel industries and the tourism sector major contributors in the increase of packaged waste
that will lead to the environmental challenges and will pose major threats to these industries.
For instance, most of the hotel and tourism sector dispose their waste mainly the packaged
waste in the oceans or nearby to some place that mainly destroy the natural beauty of the
environment. Disposal of waste in oceans will reduce major species that would reduce the
attraction of the pace and that would result in the loss of tourists. This, this would be a huge
setback for the accommodation and the attraction managers. However, in order to dispose
waste effectively, many business organization in Australia that includes the hotel and the
tourism industry, have taken initiatives to reduce waste. This would help business enhance
the market reputation and accordingly will also help to attract large number of targeted and
potential customers (Iacovidou & Voulvoulis 2017). For instance, in Australia the KMH
team is a waste management company that deals with innovative solutions to waste
management that result to high sustainability.
Environment 2 (Loss of Biodiversity)
Human beings are the major cause of the loss of rare species and bio diversity from
the environment. The balanced eco-system that seemed to be perfect million years back are in
danger and in the verge of extinction in the present days. As per the report, Australia resulted