...Brandon Alt Eng 112-12 Barbara North May 30, 2012 Trash Why are there so many landfills in America? It is because the amount of trash that the people put out is too high. All of this trash that we put out is adding up into our landfills, end up being burned, or even flow out into our oceans. Since most things that you put out into our trash are not biodegradable, these landfills will continue to grow and grow over time. Such things will have a negative impact on the environment. Though you can’t see the impact of it now, it’s going to hit us like a ton of bricks in the future. We can help avoid this fate by simply eating less food, recycling more and to use more biodegradable packaging. There are many ways that we can reduce the amount of trash we produce as people. One main way is to eat less food. In this day and age not much food is sold without some sort of paper or plastic packaging covering the item. If you just lower the amount of food we eat we can drastically lower the amount of trash produced as a whole and lower our weight leading to healthier life styles. Based on values in 2001 the USA produced 409,029,000 tons of trash. In the same year there was a population of 286,345,000. This equates to roughly 1.43 tons per person, that’s 2860 pounds of trash per person. Now how to distinguish between trash from people vs. the trash produced by factories and other large companies is hard. Of these 409,029,000 tons of trash only 32 percent was recycled, leaving behind...
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...Opportunity Description We aim to address the problem of needless food waste that occurs all around the world. Much of this waste can be attributed to the inefficiencies of the grocery shopping itself. For any number of reasons, shoppers purchase food in excess, or without a specific plan for how they will use a given item. A simplified example: suppose a shopper purchases a ripe tomato because it is being sold for a fair price, he enjoys tomatoes, and assumes he will use it in a dish soon. Over the course of the following week, however, the individual fails to consume the tomato. He dines out with friends, chooses to prepare meals that do not require tomatoes, or simply forgets he had purchased the tomato at all. The tomato spoils and he throws it out. He has not only misused his money, but he has disallowed the possibility for any other person consuming the tomato. Our customer feels upset at this waste. We hope to provide a solution for our customers that will reduce grocery buying inefficiencies and make our customers’ lives better. Our customer is the socially conscious grocery shopper. They are adults with middle to high income, and middle to high education level. Our product is best suited to individuals who do want to prepare food at home. Our customer is willing to change his grocery shopping habits in an effort to waste less food. The solution is Mela. Mela is a subscription service that makes the grocery buying more efficient and reducing food waste is its primary objective...
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...holocaust, Colin the death of generation of America Daisy Alvarez had a pitiful dog. She was tired of him because he would make a mess all over her house. She was tired and she threw him in the street. Animal control had found him and took him in and put him up for adoption. He had 30 days to find a home. 30 days passed and nobody wanted him; he was killed. Over thousands of dogs are killed in days because they can't find a home to be at for the rest of their lives. There are a lot of dogs in America who are in cages and are killed for not finding a home. Stop killing dogs for not finding a home to live in. You expect dogs to feel safe and not act violent when you have them locked in a cage for days and only allowed to go out once...
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...his parents are and he says, that they are homeless and that are living in a field nearby. As for you, you have just enough food to make it to your next payday yourself. You know that you could survive skipping a meal during the week to give up the child, surely the child is still alive after not eating for two days. A thought enters your mind, why should I give up my food or resources to this child. It’s not your fault that he has not eaten and why should you make yourself uncomfortable by giving up a meal. You send the child on his way. Garrett Hardin an ecologist and author wrote, “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor” for Psychology Today (1974 Sept).Hardin would have also undoubtedly sent the child on his way. Hardin would argue that it not your fault and that you would not be helping the child by giving your recourses or food to help him. On the other hand an Australian philosopher and author Peter Singer wrote, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” for The New Times Magazine, (1999 Sept) would have certainly given up the food and more to help the child and his family. Different as it may seem both Hardin and Singer are using the same philosophy just from opposite view points. Utilitarianism is defined as promoting the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Both, Hardin and Singer use this philosophy in their articles that were written addressing the common concern of helping feed the worlds poor and hungry...
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...Out of all the food produced in America, we let up to 40 percent of it go to waste and a big part of that problem is the stores selling it. Grocery stores throw out an outrageous amount of edible food each year that fills our landfills instead of hungry bellies, wastes resources used for harvesting and transporting food, and wastes retailers’ money. There are ways retailers can reduce food waste and wasting of resources by donating food, composting, and marking down foods not up to standards. Most food you see in the supermarket does end up being purchased but a large amount of that food is actually thrown out. NRDC author Dana Gunders states, “In-store food losses in the United States totaled an estimated 43 billion pounds in 2008, equivalent to 10 percent of the total food supply at the retail level” (Gunders, pg. 10). So what are some of the reasons all this food goes to waste? Supermarkets keep such high food standards for their consumers resulting in unnecessary food waste such as a whole carton of eggs being thrown away simply because one is cracked or a bag of oranges being tossed because one orange had a spot on it. Customers often buy produce from stores that they know have high quality foods. Retailers can attract more people to buy these foods if they look appealing so they must be the same size, shape, and color. Retailers must also order enough food so they don’t...
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...ended? Well if you have, you most likely would have observed the absurd amount of wasted food spilling out of trash cans and scattered around the concrete floors. It makes you realize how much food we waste daily, and how preventable that is. The waste we see has so much potential to be dispersed and organized into composting and recycling bins. With that in mind, it is mandatory that Mills High School should be required to have composting and more recycling bins around campus, this would be beneficial to our planet, as well as the upcoming generations. The benefits range from most importantly controlling climate change to reducing the amount of waste around campus...
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...type of food you can think of. However, what the grocery stores do not want you to know is the process that food went through to be nicely packaged and ready for you to consume. It makes perfect sense why they would not want us to question such a thing. Why? Because food industries are hiding from us the immoral and vulgar ways they supply us with the food that we eat everyday. http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/food-inc Directed by Emmy winner Robert Kenner, Food, Inc. is a documentary filmed in 2008 with the purpose of exposing the real facts and hidden secrets behind the food...
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...issue for many years between a wide range of people. Factory farming is a system of large scaled industrialized and intensive agriculture that is focused on profit from animals by keeping them indoors with restricted mobility, according to Merriam Webster dictionary. People all over the world have different views on this point and I plan on making sure my point is very clear throughout this paper. I want give reasons why factory farming should be shut down and then give my opinion on the matter. Factory farm companies are ambitious and want to increase their profits, make the quota for the demand, and still make a great profit. Animals are mistreated and are in pain because the companies only care about money. The cruelty done to these kind animals is something people should be ashamed of. Every year, millions of pregnant pigs also called sows are...
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...has direct value through utilitarian use. Today more than ever, we not only value clean water as a necessity to sustain life, but there is also quite a market in the selling of water; water for irrigation, human consumption, as well as livestock consumption. Since water is a flow resource, it is affected by activities that have nothing to do with it. For example, a small feedlot may be on top of a hill, when the livestock waste runs to lower ground, it runs in the nearby canal, which then empties into the creek will affect neighboring water tables. This can contaminate the drinking water in the wells. The Federal government has imposed regulations of waste water through the Department of Environment Quality. Early in our history, America was quite delinquent with our management of waste. Perhaps the land seemed vast and lack of scientific knowledge led to poor waste management. Because of these practices, many drinking water sources were contaminated with harmful toxins. The Love Canal was a catalyst that got the federal government involved. “Though the federal government had established a long history of oversight of water resources…it was not until 1965 that the federal government finally put the solid waste problem on par with protection of water resources” (Roberts, 2011, sec. 1978-1980). State regulating agencies such my home state, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, have the latitude to regulate how citizens put in their waste systems. It is easier for state agencies...
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...The Impact of Fast Food on Local Community Christian Values and the Global Community Spring 2006 Pete Suter Table of Contents Forward …………………………………………………………. 3 1. Fast Food and Obesity ………………....…..……………….… 4 2. Fast Food in America: Low Wages ……………………….… 11 3. From Waist to Waste …………………….…………………. 20 4. The Benefits of the Fast Food Industry on the Individual ….. 28 5. Building the Relationship Between Fast Food and Community ........... 37 Works Cited ……………………………………………………. 40 Forward We -as Pete Suter’s Spring 2006 Christian Values in the Global Community class- worked on a community task force project to bring awareness of the implications of having fast food restaurants in a community. Different groups of people worked on researching different aspects of fast food in the community. Information was collected about fast food restaurants’ contribution to communities through the lenses of obesity, wages, waste, benefits, and community relations. While there may be negatives surrounding the fast food industry, fast food restaurants/chains do benefit the community in some ways. 1. Fast Food and Obesity America is the fattest country in the entire world and is getting fatter. Obesity is the second biggest killer next to deaths caused by smoking. In 1991, 1 in every 8 adults was obese; in 1999, 1 in every 5 adults was obese, which shows how America is becoming more obese all of the time...
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...On average America uses 17 million barrels of oil annually to make their demand for plastic water bottles. Based off that we could fuel 1.3 million cars with all that oil used for water bottles. This data doesn't even include the amount of oil used to transport them. On top of this chemicals such as BPA are used in the manufacturing of plastic bottles. Seven million pounds of BPA is used in the manufacturing of water bottles, food packaging, pvc pipes, and more. BPA is a hormone closely resembled to the hormone estrogen. 93% of Americans have high levels of BPA within their bodies which is dangerous because of linked medical disorders known to come with BPA. So why do we waste 17 million pounds of oil on packaging, that in return will hurt...
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...minimising food waste in the supply chain of the future Prepared for: CHEP Australia June 2013 Issue: Version: 3.0 3.0 Authors: Dr Karli Verghese Dr Helen Lewis Simon Lockrey Dr Helen Williams Executive summary CONTACT Centre for Design School of Architecture and Design RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Tel: + 61 (03) 9925 3484 Fax: + 61 (03) 9639 3412 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dr Stephen Clune’s (RMIT) background work into food waste and input into project scope. The research team are also grateful to the stakeholders from the food and packaging supply chain who participated in the interviews. Final report: The role of packaging in minimising food waste in the supply chain of the future Version: 3 Page 1 Executive summary Table of Contents Research Partners ................................................................................................................................ 3 Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. 4 1 Introduction – the significance of food waste and the role of packaging ........................................ 6 1.1 Research aims and approach .................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Research method ....................................................................................................................... 7 1.3 Food security and waste ......
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...is a celebrity trying to make you buy something. Most people do fall for it. They think it will bring them the attention they want. They think just because Beyonce wears butt pads it is okay to wear them. Although people would say people should be smart enough not to believe it, however, it does not matter these advertisements are ruining people’s lives, and they should be stopped. These advertisements are ruining people’s lives. When children, teens, and even adults see advertisements they waste their money purchasing it. They think that since this celebrity has it they can too. They do not realize that they do not have the same amount of money that those people do. That is why people usually go into debt because they spend money they do not have on the product they desire. They need that product to experience. They only want it because someone else has it. For example, the old spice commercial they say if you wear their product it will bring you the attention of every “hot girl”. Now you and I both know that is not true, but you only buy it because it is on television. Even though that is not a bad, product to buy because you need that. It is the simple fact that the United States people waste of their hard earned money on most of the nonsense they see on advertisements. Food advertisements are destroying the lives of many. Slowly but surely it is going to happen if someone does not do anything about these food advertisements. For example, the Carl’s Jr. lures their victims...
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...Nicholas Burns Intro to Philosophy 28 September 2013 Legalization of Hemp Before you can understand my philosophical belief we must first take a brief look at the history of Marijuana and its more resourceful counterpart Hemp. Hemp has uses for over 20,000 things including fuel, food, construction material, clothing, paint, and even making more durable and longer lasting paper. Hemp was so versatile and heavily cultivated that during the mid-1600 to the early 1800’s you could pay taxes with hemp. There was even a law in Colonial Virginia that made it illegal to not grow hemp. Marijuana was a word created around the 1930’s to slander the good name of hemp. Marijuana, otherwise known as hemp, was quickly regarded as evil and eventually became illegal in September of 1937. Why was this plant that was so heavily cultivated seen as violence causing drug? When, it was in fact used in numerous healing products around the world. Why are we still enforcing this barbaric law when our great ancestors cultivated it for thousands of years? After the prohibition law of marijuana was passed it was known to be the root of all evil. People were soon pumped full of yellow-journalism about this miracle plant saying “Marijuana makes people full of anger” during the 1930’s. When communism was beginning to be suspected in America, marijuana was again falsely linked to “Pacifying soldiers and making them not want to fight”. This legalization of Hemp needs to be now. In today’s world there...
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...Americans have been eating more and more fast food every year. And we American citizens are paying for it money wise and health wise. Fast foods have been ands still are a staple of our country’s food and our countries economy and today we are hurting from all that fast food in our systems. Some say that fast food has given American citizens many health complications in today’s society. They say that fast foods will contribute to obesity and diabetes. Many people also suggest that eating these fast foods like mcdonalds or subway ect can give you more of a chance of having a stroke and high blood pressure. I would like to know, what are the risks that you will face from eating all these fast food restaurants, and also I would like to know how those health risks can affect Americas daily life. And if people do truly know that fast food restaurants are bad for you why do people still continue to consume their product. Calories are the energy that comes from the foods that you eat. They are in every food we eat. From meat, to vegetables. Calories are the energy that helps keep are body running the way it is supposed to run. Too little of that energy basically robs yourself of life. But too much of that energy gets stored into fat around your body. The recommended calorie intake daily varies from person to person. Main factors are your weight and your daily activity level. The more you exercise the more you eat. The average recommended daily calorie intake is 2000 calories. Let’s...
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