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  2. Organic wastes

Organic wastes

  • Damage by degradable organic matter
  • Oxygen depleting wastes
  • Oxygen consuming processes
  • BOD
  • COD
  • Oxygen demanding matter

Nature

Organic wastes, improperly disposed, cause problems of oxygen depletion, pollution and foul smells.

Background

The breakdown and decay of living material requires oxygen. The amount of oxygen consumed by a given amount and type of organic material when broken down in nature is know as its biological oxygen demand (BOD). Chemical oxygen demand (COD) is the even greater amount of oxygen that would be needed to completely oxidize the material in a laboratory. Both indices are used as measures of the organic content of waters.

Claim

Organic wastes are being widely used as a fuel in many parts of the world instead of being returned to the soil.

Broader

Narrower

Waste paper
Presentable
Wastage of food
Presentable
Aquatic weeds
Presentable

Aggravates

Food poisoning
Presentable
Eutrophication
Presentable

Aggravated by

Animal deaths
Yet to rate

Reduced by

Strategy

Value

Wastage
Yet to rate
Nondegradable
Yet to rate
Damage
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean EnergySustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below WaterSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J6128
DOCID
12061280
D7NID
134201
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Oct 4, 2020