What’s So Bad About Plastic Bags? Plastic bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways‚ spoil the landscape‚ and end up in landfills where they may take 1‚000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water. Plastic bags also pose a serious danger to birds and marine mammals that often mistake them for food. Thousands die each year after swallowing or choking on discarded plastic bags. Finally‚ producing plastic bags requires millions
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WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT PLASTIC POLLUTION Plastic bags and bottles‚ like all forms of plastic‚ create significant environmental and economic burdens. They consume growing amounts of energy and other natural resources‚ degrading the environment in numerous ways. In addition to using up fossil fuels and other resources‚ plastic products create litter‚ hurt marine life‚ and threaten the basis of life on earth. We are producing over 25 million tons of plastics per year in the United States‚ a trivial
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16 April 2012 Essay III How Plastic Pollution is Out of Control Many individuals underestimate the amount of plastic we use each day. According to the article “Plastic Bags Wars”‚ “the world consumes 1 million plastic shopping bags every minute”. Plastic bags‚ along with many other types of plastics‚ have become a leading source of pollution worldwide (Doucette). Captain Charles Moore‚ founder of the Algalita foundation states that we use two million plastic bottles in the United States every
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Natasha Morales Prof. Kanter English 102 July 31st‚ 2013 The Internet: Friend or Foe? Over the past 5 years or so I’ve realized that both my attention span and reading skills have declined. Most people like the Internet because it is easy‚ quick‚ and “reliable”. Ever so often 85% of Americans 18 and older are on the Internet. According to studies made by nGenera‚ a research and consulting group of people‚ in 2008 they released that young kids have trouble absorbing information
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How History Shaped Today ’s Networks Jonathan Moscone IT – 340 B. Richards 5/5/2013 Computer network technology has been shaped by history in many ways. From the needs of business‚ government‚ military and personal use. As these needs grow and change so do the networks and connections that support them. The biggest network people use today in the Internet. The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph‚ telephone
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Plastic Pollution in Hawai’i Plastic plays a big part of our lives. The food we eat is wrapped with it‚ the toys our siblings or children play with is made from it‚ the television we watch is made with it‚ we play video games with plastic controllers‚ we listen to music with plastic head phones and the shelves we use is made with plastic. Material items made with plastic can be useful‚ cheaper‚ and durable but it can also harm the environment. All of these plastic items don’t just disappear
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SAY NO TO PLASTICS!! As quoted by Lord Byron‚ “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods‚ There is a rapture on the lonely shore‚ There is society‚ where none intrudes‚ By the deep sea‚ and music in its roar: I love not man the less‚ but Nature more.” The earth is the only known world to harbour life. There is nowhere else‚ at least in the near future‚ to which our species could migrate. For 200 years we have been conquering nature‚ now we are beating it to death. One of the
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one’s rent in pepper! Even in more modern times commodity money has been used in cases where there was no access to actual currency. An example of this was during and after World War II in Europe‚ where tobacco was often used in place of money. [C] Certain metals‚ such as gold‚ silver‚ and copper‚ have been used as commodity money for thousands of years. Metals were exchanged in the form of jewelry and nuggets and eventually appeared in the form of coins around 560 B.C.E. The use of metals coins
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PLASTIC SURGERY One day‚ I went out for lunch with my friends. I shared a movie that I watched recently to them. Wow! I was excited and can’t even wait for a moment to tell them how nice was the movie and how good looking was the actress! But‚ when I mentioned her name‚ Angelababy‚ one of my friend said sarcastically that she did a lot of plastic surgery‚ that’s why she look pretty and prefect. Plastic Surgery? I had search some pictures of Angelababy that before she did plastic surgery from
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plastic pollution‚ the accumulation in the environment of man-made plastic products to the point where they create problems for wildlife and their habitats as well as for human populations. In 1907 the invention of Bakelite brought about a revolution in materials by introducing truly synthetic plastic resins into world commerce. By the end of the 20th century‚ however‚ plastics were found to be persistent polluters of many environmental niches‚ from Mount Everest to the bottom of the sea. Whether
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