Dumping, social

In her book on homelessness in Russia, Svetlana Stephenson (2,006 83) writes that collective farms were often dumping grounds for social waste —i.e., homeless persons, the unemployed, and other undesirables—during the Soviet period and continuing into the post-Soviet period. 

Such large-scale destruction operations proved to raise complicated economic, social and ecological problems, and may yet have profound effects on population and the environment. The dumpings of old chemical warfare munitions and repositories of CW agents, remaining after past wars, still fiuther complicate things. 

Social topics keyword Compostable materials Agricultural film Landfill life Dumping of plastic articles Agricultural and engineering Compostable materials Durables Fibers... 

Missiaen, E.T., Henriet, J.-R, 2002. Chemical Munition Dump Sites in Coastal Enviroirments. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC), Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and the Enviroirment, University of Gent, Brussels, Belgium. 

Not many years ago, gun clubs routinely fired at clay birds over lakes and wetlands. The practice was not identified as inappropriate or dumping or hazardous. We shot that way for generations. That has changed and, as we know, change usually brings conflict before equilibrium returns to a social system. Such is the case in America as we attempt to bring our need for a clean environment into balance with our traditional shooting pastimes. 

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