However, these definitions shouldn't be left to government only. The concept is in fact very simple to grasp and we thought we would offer you our perspective on their meaning as follows:

Sustainable development starts with the concept that the most sustainable ambition for every one is a far better quality of life for everyone, not only now, but for decades to come.

To achieve this, sustainable development is concerned with accomplishing economic growth, in the shape of higher living standards. It is definitely not about hair shirts and scrimping and saving, or punishing ourselves for enjoying the use of the world's limited resources now.

However it is about our caring for and where achievable enhancing the environment, not just for its own well being but for our personal enlightened self interest, as a damaged natural environment would fairly rapidly start to hold back fiscal development and lower the standard of life.

It is egalitarian, because it to be truly sustainable as times gone by reveals, things only work over the long term if we all make sure that monetary and environmental benefits are unreservedly available to the whole of society and not only a privileged few.

Sustainability is compatible with all the major religions and can be supported by all.

So, it is normally accepted that sustainable development ought to include 4 broad aims.

These are; social progress which recognises the requirements of everybody, the effective security of the environment, prudent use of natural resources, and maintenance of high and stable degrees of economic growth and employment.

One of the most significant areas for society to act sustainably is in how it throws away its waste, its trash and detritus. Not anything else, other than fossil fuel energy over-use creating climate change, and war, has the capability to do so much accumulating damage.

Unsustainable waste management poisons watercourses and underground water, leaves discarded litter around all over to injure and kill our wildlife, encourages rats and vermin, pollutes the air with smells and unhealthy aerosols and can render huge swathes of land damaged or mostly unusable.

What is Sustainable Waste Management

There's no one sustainable waste management solution which until now reigns supreme. There are still conflicting views as to the most realistic, environmentally useful and effective way of attaining sustainable waste management.

The overall policy aims to reach sustainable waste management, that have been established in recent years across the whole EU and various other nations are:

• to lessen the amount of waste that society creates;

• to make best use of waste that is created; and

• to choose integrated waste management procedures which minimise the dangers of direct and future environmental pollution and damage to human wellbeing.

Over the last ten years the actions considered necessary for the waste industry and individuals to follow, and which are most sustainable have been defined by the policy makers.

A waste disposal approach for making the choice between waste treatment and disposal choices which places landfill disposal at the foot of the list of possible waste disposal routes, has been supplied throughout the EU, for use by all. It is recognized as the waste disposal hierarchy.

Landfill does have a job in this stratagem in mopping up the left over waste subsequent to all pre-treatment of waste has already removed as much of the waste stream as possible, but it is a continually decreasing one, and consensus amongst total waste management experts still remains tenuously established at best.

Sustainable Landfill

Flushing bioreactor landfills have been recommended as the only method to accomplish sustainable landfills but very real technological problems exist in developing these, not least getting enough fresh clean water for the flushing in the first place.

However, there is a common consensus on the goals of sustainable landfill, which we detail as follows:

• The contents of the landfill should be managed so that outputs are released into the environment in a controlled and acceptable way.

• The residues left in the site should not create an unacceptable hazard to the environment, and the necessity for aftercare and monitoring should not be handed over to the next generation.

• Future use of groundwater and other resources should not be compromised.

The striking point at this juncture though is it might be suggested that slow seepage to the environment could be better than a total containment if slow improvement and stabilisation is achieved without any irreversible damage being caused.