Material; Waste; Energy and Environment Relationship in Sustainable Development

Abstract

Taiwo O. Asonja, Taiwo Alare

To have a sustainable development; material, waste, energy and environment must be under-checked. Materials generate both energy and waste; the waste generated maybe harmful to environment causing pollution of all kind. We therefore developed a mathematical relationship between, material-waste, Energy- waste, waste- environment and material-waste-energy- environment. The aim is to provide a model which can determine the sustainability of an environment considering material production, energy generation and waste management. Likewise, the paper shows that energy stored in waste is a function of materials produced and usage time. It also reduces with the period of redundancy of waste. Also, to achieve a sustainable environment, the redundancy period of waste should be minimized. Minimizing this will also reduce land area cover by waste.

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