Plastic Pollution Introduction The world population is living‚ working‚ vacationing‚ increasingly conglomerating along the coasts‚ and standing on the front row of the greatest‚ most unprecedented‚ plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form‚ the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the the world’s oceans‚ yet mostly originating from where we stand: the
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to say no to plastic bags! Plastic bags should be banned from grocery stores. I often go to the store and buy 1 or 2 items and I am given so many bags. I feel that we have become an extremely wasteful society. If we could just say no to plastic bags we would be slowing down the waste in landfills. It takes a little more effort to remember to carry reusable bags in the car but it is worth saving our environment. I am proud to say that my young daughters have said no to the plastic bag when they
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4402 Test 2.1) Mass of water: M2- M3=7.05g Mass of dried soil: M3- M1=23.20g Wn=30.4% (3sf-in compliance with NZS 4402) Wn=30% (to nearest whole number) All guidelines within the NZS 4402 methodology were adhered to as closely as possible: The tin base and lid were both cleaned and dried prior to weighing (to the nearest 0.01g)‚ while handling the soil‚ dry‚ clean hands we ensured in order to avoid altering the water content of the soil and it was also stored within a ‘sealed’ tin container during
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The Effects of Plastic Bags on Environmentt * | * The effects of plastic bags on the environment are really quite devastating. While there are many objections to the banning of plastic bags based solely on their convenience‚ the damage to the environment needs to be controlled. * There is no way to strictly limit the effects of plastic bags on the environment because there is no disposal method that will really help eliminate the problem. While reusing them is the first step‚ most people
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onwards‚ plastic bags became common for carrying daily groceries from the store to vehicles and homes throughout the developed world. As plastic bags increasingly replaced paper bags‚ and as other plastic materials and products replaced glass‚ metal‚ stone‚ timber and other materials‚ a packaging materials war erupted‚ with plastic shopping bags at the center of highly publicized disputes. Although few peer-reviewed studies or government surveys have provided estimates for global plastic bag use‚
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The article addresses the popularly debated issue of reducing the use of plastic bags in all kinds of stores that give out free plastic bags as carriers‚ especially supermarkets in Singapore. No government legislation has been implemented in Singapore so far to make it compulsory for retailers to charge customers on plastic bags‚ which has already been done in a few Asian countries. However‚ environmental agencies have been urging Singapore government to do the same while the government is encouraging
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Essay : Nowadays‚ the trend of surgery plastic gets increasing higher and higher. There has been widespread speculation have had plastic surgery. However‚ they did not realize serious effects that plastic surgery can cause yet. It can make you bankrupt‚ damage your health and intimidate society. Because of that‚ everybody must awake and fight for the beauty that is not gone under the knife. One of the most basic bad effects of plastic surgery is money problem. People who afford to change their
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can reach a new pH level by interacting with soil. If water has a pH that is too high or too low‚ it can be life threatening to aquatic species and can corrode metal structures. After finding this out‚ I decided to test if water could reach an extreme pH just by interacting with soil around it. The question for this experiment therefore became the following. Will interaction with soil change the pH of water? I hypothesized that if water interacts with soil for three days‚ then the pH of the water will
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Fantastic Plastic an Optimistic Prospect Introduction A. Background of the study A plastic is a type of synthetic or man-made polymer; similar in many ways to natural resins found in trees and other plants. Webster’s Dictionary defines polymers as: any of various complex organic compounds produced by polymerization‚ capable of being molded‚ extruded‚ cast into various shapes and films‚ or drawn into filaments and then used as textile fibers. Plastics are durable that is why most of
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May 2014. Plastic Surgery “What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you are so ugly on the inside?” This quote is saying about the valuation of a person is inside of her or him‚ not the beauty outside. In recently years‚ plastic surgery has grown in the Medical field in many countries around the world. It has become a booming in the United State‚ the plastic surgery patients are both men and women‚ especially women (91%). Perhaps‚ people who after have the plastic surgery will
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