...The camera pans out from the crying Native American Indian you see why he’s upset there’s trash everywhere. Though we have made changes on trying to clean up cities and towns it still has a long way to go. The United States has a growing problem with resource consumption, Cities and towns are having problems with handling large capacities of waste. Hazardous waste and construction waste has grown in this dilemma also. With the methane emissions increasing as well hazardous liquids contamination seeping out of the landfills more computers means more plastic this causes your city and town landfill tax to increase to keep these problems under control. According to the U.S census bureau say there are 309,941,768 people in the us, a growth of 3.3 million people a year. With the average 4 person house hold accumulating 1 ton of waste per year, this could be a very serious problem for the ecosystem and the earth as well. The fact that pollution is on our highways, in our lakes and streams at the beaches and even even on top of Mt Everest is that litter effects both living and nonliving it has no prejudice. Litter effects use as a society in a lot of ways. Litter can be a safety hazard on the road from a survey done by green eco services(2009) twenty five thousand car accidents happen every year because of litter related conditions on the highway which in turn effects insurance companies to raise their premiums. Forty eight percent of Americas admit to littering...
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...amount of waste that will later need to be thrown away and also to make the resulting waste less toxic. Recycling is the recovery of useful materials, such as paper, glass, plastic, and metals, from the trash to use to make new products, reducing the amount of new raw materials needed. * Composting involves collecting organic waste, such as food scraps and yard trimmings, and storing it under conditions designed to help it break down naturally. This resulting compost can then be used as a natural fertilizer. For waste that requires disposal it is important that it is done in ways that protect human health and the environment. Landfills are engineered areas where waste is placed into the land. Landfills usually have liner systems and other safeguards to prevent polluting the groundwater. Combustion of MSW is done to reduce the amount of landfill space needed and to generate electricity Currently, in the United States, 34 percent is recovered and recycled or composted, about...
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...What sources did I use to complete this paper according to the assignment instructions? The following sources were used for information to complete this assignment. "Public and Private Sector Experts to Share Waste Management Best Practice at EcoWASTE 2014." UAE Government News(2014)ProQuest. Web. 4 Feb. 2015. Pyrko, Jurek, and Sarah Darby. "Conditions of Energy Efficient Behaviour--a Comparative Study between Sweden and the UK."Energy Efficiency 4.3 (2011): 393-408. ProQuest. Web. 4 Feb. 2015. "The Swedish Recycling Revolution." Sweden.se. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2015. "Landfill Methane Outreach Program | US EPA." EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2015. 5. Please provide an example of how sources have been cited correctly in the body of the essay in MLA format. These landfills account for around 18% of the total amount of methane emissions in the United States alone (Landfill Methane Outreach Program | US EPA.). 6. How does my conclusion effectively summarize my main points and restate my thesis in different words?...
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...If done right, landfills can be a viable disposal option. If done wrong, they can be an environmental and economic disaster. The main problem with landfills is that they are complicated structures that are difficult to maintain. Of particular concern is the wastewater created inside landfills as leachate. In order to keep the toxic material from leaking into the local drinking water, these football stadium-sized holes require a combination of liners made from clay, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic or composite membranes. But according to the Environmental Research Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, clay will dry and crack over time, HDPE will degrade with household chemicals, and composite liners made from clay and plastic will leak somewhere between 0.2 and 10 gallons a day after ten years. Even with complex leachate collection plumbing built into landfills, none of these solutions is 100% foolproof (collection pipes tend to clog and back up). "The EPA technicians that currently oversee landfill design and regulation have said that their own engineering standards would not last," warns Will Ferretti, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition. "They're saying that they could break down in a 30-year time frame. It's clearly a concern and we have asked the EPA to revisit their regulations in that light." To be fair, however, recycling doesn't clear every environmental hurdle either. Products remade from recycled waste such as paper and plastic go through...
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...Landfill Gas Industries Pty Ltd is a business that specialises in offering gas extraction from landfill sites (rubbish dumps) around Australia. The extracted gas is used to generate electricity for local councils and landfill owners around the nation. LGI Pty Ltd offers a variety of services from assessment of gas and flare capability to maintenance and monitoring of electrical generators powered by the gas they extract from landfill sites. You can find out more about landfill gas as well as the business’s specific customers, services and capabilities by going to its website: www.landfillgasindustries.com.au Presume that LGI Pty Ltd has commissioned you to conduct a preliminary investigation of the environmental factors and how they will impact the business’s operation in Australia. This investigative essay will then provide LGI Pty Ltd with further research options and investment strategies in the future, once it has been presented to the board for approval. Your task is to provide an overview of the external environmental (general and specific) factors affecting LGI’s performance. Your analysis should focus on and explain in depth the particular environmental factors you feel significantly impact LGI’s operation. Task notes 1. Carry out an environmental analysis to identify what opportunities and threats LGI faces. To help limit your analysis area, you can also choose to identify a specific location for the basis of your analysis e.g. a particular council in your state’s...
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...Many cardboard items are made out of recycled material. Cardboard is one of those rare products that can be recycled over and over again. When your company recycles cardboard instead of sending it to the trash bin, you help reduce the amount of virgin materials that go into producing the cardboard that your business uses. Reduces Landfill Waste Finally, every piece of cardboard that your business recycles prevents that cardboard from taking up unnecessary space inside of a landfill. If your business recycles just one ton of cardboard a year, they can save up to 9 cubic yards of space from being occupied with that cardboard at your local landfill. If your business uses more than one ton of cardboard a year, just multiple 9 cubic yards of space by how many tons of cardboard your business uses to see the huge impact just your business has on the local landfill by recycling. It is important to recycle the cardboard that your business generates. All you have to do to start recycling cardboard is obtain some cardboard recycling bins from your local sanitation company. Give them a call today and get your business on board with recycling cardboard and having a positive impact on the...
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...Effects of Water Resources Neal Wolf SCI/275 08/09/2015 Dr. Bryan Taylor Video The video about protecting Americans from danger in drinking water was focused on the effects in the town of Hinkley, CA due to PG&E pollutants. The plant releases tons of Chromium 6 into the environment in Hinkley, CA. Hinkley is suffering because they do not have drinking water, nor do they have sustainable conditions for living due to the pollutants. The environmental issues presented in the video affect me directly because I live in California. The water is very limited due to our ongoing drought and contaminating clean drinking water only causes more issues. I do not live in Hinkley, CA so the issues of drinking water do not affect me directly in that sense. I think that there needs to be closer management over companies and their affects onto the environment. The diagram focuses on the sources of groundwater contamination. There are three areas that deal with groundwater contamination. The three areas of groundwater contamination are natural activities, direct pollution, and indirect pollution. The environmental issues discussed in the diagram affect me directly because pesticides, chemicals. and groundwater pollution are all issues in California. The issues in the diagram that do not affect me directly are the drinking water. The drinking water where I live is not the greatest, but I have my water run through two different filters to prevent any chances of contamination. Groundwater...
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...Matteo Kirunna 30/09/11 English Speaking: ‘Wasting our Food’ 1) The Problem with Wasting Food • Families are wasting £680 a year on throwing away foods we can still eat • We are throwing away 8.3 million tonnes of food from our homes every year • On average £50 of food is wasted per average family every month • All of the wasted foods are dumped in landfill sites • The rotting food releases methane & Co2 into the air • Half of the food wasted could have been eaten if only we followed the out-of-date on packaging 2) Why do we throw away so much food? • We are using too much food to make meals for families, food may still remain in pans or bowls for self-serving • Not keeping fruits in fridges, so they become more soft or gone off quicker • Not freezing foods which you are not going to eat for a while • Not following the ‘use by date’ • Putting new foods in front of older foods in the fridge or cupboard • Overestimating our shopping • Throwing away leftovers which can be used for something else 3) The Benefits of ‘Not Wasting Foods’ • If everyone stopped wasting food, it would have the same Carbon Impact as taking of 1 in 4 cars off the road in the UK • It will save you money 4) What are Groceries & Food brands doing about this? • Most of the major supermarket retailers in the UK welcome the campaign and have committed to work with WRAP to identify ways they can help us, their customers...
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...money on transport of waste as it no longer needs to be transported to landfills * Incinerations make more space as only 10% of the original waste remains after incineration. * A decrease in landfills would mean that disease harbouring pests such as rats could be reduced * Incineration could also be used as a source of energy which would help preserve the environments and resources * A 250 ton per day incinerator can produce 6.5 megawatts of electricity per day * Gases that are produced in the landfills are removed completely * The waste that is produced in the incineration are totally free of any environmental risk * Incineration plants are extremely expensive * Dioxins are produced in the treatment which could lead to cancer * Complete waste combustion requires 850º C for at least 2 seconds which is very expensive and also produces carbon emissions. * Flue gases are produced which are toxic. This is why chimneys are required to be at least 9 metres above other structures Method 2 – Land fill * The location could be easily monitored * Waste that is going to properly designed landfills can be processed to remove all recyclable and organic material before tipping * Properly managed landfills can capture gases produced by decomposing material and could reuse it as an energy source * Landfills and the surrounding areas are heavily polluted * Landfills can cause water, air, visual and noise pollution * Toxic chemicals...
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...our paper wrappings, paper is still everywhere and most of them are ending up in our landfills creating a staggering amount of paper waste. There was a time when paper was a rare and precious commodity. Now it fills out planet. It was initially invented as a tool for communication, but today, paper is used more for packaging. To produce paper takes twice the energy used to produce a plastic bag. (Wikipedia: Environmental Impact of Paper) Have the things listed below ever crossed your mind? If not, let us share with you these interesting paper waste facts. We are so used to seeing products in their completed form that we seldom think of how they are made and what happens after we dispose of them. • Recycling 1 ton of paper saves around 682.5 gallons of oil, 26,500 liters of water and 17 trees. (www.id2.ca/downloads/eco-design-paper-facts.pdf) • 324 liters of water is used to make 1 kilogram of paper. (www.id2.ca/downloads/eco-design-paper-facts.pdf) • Lessening of paper waste usage was predicted due to the electronic revolution. It didn’t happen. Demand for paper is expected to double before 2030. (http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Paper-Waste-Facts) • 93% of paper comes from trees. (http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Paper-Waste-Facts) • 50% of the waste of businesses is composed of paper. (http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Paper-Waste-Facts) • Paper accounts for 25% of landfill waste and 33% of municipal waste. (http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Paper-Waste-Facts) ...
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...being in landfills, the largest one taking up 400 acres of land. Plastic and trash are being thrown away improperly into landfills and incinerators, making many disadvantages. These disadvantages are making waste disposal non-efficient as it isn’t cost effective, it’s hurting people and it’s hurting the environment. What’s preventing proper recycling is the economics. The economic incentive to recycle isn’t enough, making the value less than processing costs. This incentive runs how much we recycle correctly. Without the incentive, we are finding ways to throw things out in the cheapest ways possible which convert to landfills and incinerators (Szaky, 2016). Our motivation has...
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...In Stiff by Mary Roach, she lists a variety of disposal methods like burial and cremation, however composting is foremost because it gives humans the ability to give life after death, therefore,composting should be utilized more because it is less harmful to the environment and less expensive than other methods. Natural burials are starting to become more current than non-natural burials.There are a variety of new organizations promoting composting and in addition more people are becoming familiar with composting. Composting is making significant advances in the natural burial movement. To decompose a cadaver, it requires to be placed in nitrogen-rich material inside a mound of carbon-rich material, adding moisture or more nitrogen and other...
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...Research Plan As part of your research plan, you must first draft a research question for your research paper that will guide the rest of your writing. A research question, which is more specific and focused than a general topic, is the question that your research paper will be answering. For example, if your general area of interest is social security, a possible research question might ask “How can low-income families save more money if the United States had a reformed social security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, keep in mind that you will need to research sources to support your topic. Do not pick a one-sided question that will limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question for which you genuinely want to know the answer. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad, which covers too much, or too narrow, which covers too little. It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. What is your general topic or area of interest? My general topic is “Recycling”, which is one topic from the list provided in the syllabus. Recycling is an important part of my life, because I care deeply about our environment. I was taught to recycle at a young age, and was somewhat shocked to see how careless consumers are here in the United States, and the “throw-away” mentality most consumers have. What is it about your general...
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...Just about everyone knows our environment is in danger. One of the most serious threats is the massive amount of waste we put into the air, water, and ground every year. All across the world are thousands of places that have been, and continue to be, polluted by toxic waste, radioactive waste and just plain garbage. It is imperative that we are aware of all the things that we can do to help our environment by diminishing the amount of trash and garbage that we produce each year. One easy way of doing that is by a method called recycling. Many might not know the importance of recycling and what it can do to our environment. While recycling has become part of the daily routine for many people, the full importance of recycling is not always understood. In general, people do understand that recycling helps to minimize the drain on the limited resources of our planet. However, there are several other factors that make recycling important which will be discussed in this paper. Although recycling may seem like a modern concept introduced with the environmental movement of the 1970s, it's actually been around for thousands of years. Prior to the industrial age, you couldn't make goods quickly and cheaply, so virtually everyone practiced recycling in some form. However, large-scale recycling programs were very rare -- households predominantly practiced recycling. The mass production of the industrial age is, in many ways, the very reason we need to worry about large-scale recycling...
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...Recycle plastic programs * The plastic pollution Plastic is one of the few new chemical materials which pose environmental problem. Polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene is largely used in the manufacture of plastics. Synthetic polymers are easily molded into complex shapes, have high chemical resistance, and are more or less elastic. Some can be formed into fibers or thin transparent films. These properties have made them popular in many durable or disposable goods and for packaging materials. These materials have molecular weight ranging from several thousands to 1,50,000. Excessive molecular size seems to be mainly responsible for the resistance of these chemicals to biodegradation and their persistence in soil environment for a long time. Plastic in the environment is regarded to be more an aesthetic nuisance than a hazard, since the material is biologically quite inert. The plastic industry in the US alone is $ 50 billion per year and is obviously a tempting market for biotechnology goral enterprises. Biotechnological processes are being developed as an alternative to existing route or to get new biodegradable biopolymers . 20% of solid municipal wastes in US is plastic. Non-degradable plastics accumulate at the rate of 25 million tones per year. According to an estimate more than 100 million tones of plastic is produced every year all over the world. In India it is only 2 million tones. In India use of plastic is 2 kg per person per year while in European...
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