How To Lower Bad Impacts Of Mining Operation On The Ecosystem
If not appropriately
controlled and well organized, mining exploration, certainly, becomes one of
the most destructive industries to our natural environment. Mining is certainly
able to break ecology and instigate land degradation as well as air, water and
land pollution. Furthermore, it also has harmful effects to human health and
causes to numerous social, economic and political turmoils.
On the other hand, the
mining industry is important in our economy. The mining activities
unquestionably boost new employment, people's income that leads to the increase
of the demand for goods and services and tax incomes for states. Simply, the
mining industry will lead the economic growth and cut the shortage.
Thus, it is challenge
to find ways and methods to reduce the bad effects derived from the mining
industry. The subsequent are several ways how to at least decrease the
environment damage affected by mining industry:
1. The mining company
should manage correct and serious research before mining process. The research
is to discover and decrease the terrible effect of this process on natural
environment as well as how to successfully employ the mineral resources.
2. Lowering the mineral
consumption. People should reduce the consumer products using mineral products.
For example: we are able to use public transit instead of personal cars to
decrease the fuel consumption.
3. Creating replacement
with more friendly resources. For example: to make appliances, we substitute
metal with plastic.
4. Recycling
second-hand equipment to decrease another resources mined. It takes far less
power to reprocess discarded materials (like tin cans) than to extract,
process, and refine metals from ore. For example, to manufacture aluminum, we
consumes 95% less energy when using recycling materials rather than from
bauxite ore.
5. Improving
environmental performance. By scientifically investigating the impacts of
mining on natural environment, it is still promising to diminish the bad
effects of mining.
6. Creating rules and
mining guide to increase environmental performance that have to be complied by
the mining companies and some penalties who are failed to obey. At this point,
the government has power to inspect the mining operation.
7. Adapting modern and
ground-breaking technology to carry out the finest mining activities and
practices in order to minimize the environmental contamination to our
ecosystem.
Finally, we comprehend
that mining industry really brings bad effects on our environments if
inappropriately managed. What we can do is how to reduce the bad ecological
impacts of mineral exploration on ecology. With the points described above, we
wish that the mining company pay attention and be responsible of the balanced
ecology.