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    greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is one of the culprits trapping the heat on Earth‚ and raising global temperatures. The raise in temperature of the Earth may seem nothing to you‚ however they have devastating impacts on all of our lives. I daresay‚ our lives are threatened! Natural disasters such as heat waves will happened often due to the increase in temperature. However‚ this is not it. The rising global temperature will cause the glaciers and icebergs up at the North Pole and Greenland

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    Computers Ease Our Lives Nowadays‚ many people say that computers make life more complex. However I do not agree with that. I think computers ease our lives in many ways. They help us to store our documents as well as not occupying a place. Also‚ we can make a great profit on them by using the internet which is helping us on our researches by lessen the time that we spend for researches. Moreover‚ we can pacify ourselves by doing some activities on computers. To begin with‚ several decades ago

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    of Municipal Solid Waste on the Environment "We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed‚ and we must change with it"(Adler). We are living in a consumist - throwaway society (see Figure 18–15) where there is little awareness about the impact of Municipal Solid Waste‚ "MSW—more commonly known as trash or garbage—consists of everyday items such as paper and paperboard (35.7%)‚ yard waste (12.2%)‚ food wastes (11.4%)‚ plastics

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    information. Questions that arouse in our head used to remain unanswered until we actually took the energy‚ time‚ and effort to flip through the pages of the heavy books in the library. But today‚ questions are answered instantly with a few clicks on the internet search engine such as Google. The internet is prepared to give out the answers to everything almost immediately. It has become easier for us to access to the more specific information that we need. Data for our research paper‚ study report of

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    unintended negative effects on the environment and organisms. The extent of these impacts is not fully understood due to the fact that researchers have just recently began to pay attention to the issue and have not yet drawn exact conclusions‚ they do know‚ however‚ that there is effects on the environment directly related to pharmaceutical drugs.

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    feeding operations‚ or CAFOs. Factory farm’s effect on the environment‚ effect on human health‚ and lack of animal welfare proves that they are a destructive industry. An example of how these farms affect the environment is the way they get rid of the animal’s waste. “Factory farms typically store animal waste in huge‚ open-air lagoons‚ often as big as several football fields‚ which are prone to leaks and spills” (Factory Farming and the Environment). When these lagoons spill into bodies of water‚ manure

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    am here today to give a speech about our role to ‘save our environment’. Today‚ when environment is being polluted so vigorously‚ everyone has only one question on their mind that is how to save environment from being polluted. The strongest way to protect environment is save trees. Trees play an important role to keep air clean. If there will be no fresh air available then how will human beings‚ animal‚ and birds survive? Therefore‚ a clean environment is the need for every living object on

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    have been found in increasing concentration. In 2009‚ it was estimated that 10% of modern waste was plastics‚ although estimates vary according to region. Meanwhile‚ 50-80% of debris in marine areas is plastic. They also contribute great effect on global warming especially if they are incinerated because it increases carbon emissions. So how can we continuously use plastic without compromising our environment? On the other hand‚ vegetables like potato‚ tapioca and corn also contain polymers from

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    Science One World Essay---The Use of Biodegradable Plastics By: Joyce Wu Y10 Peace The “normal” plastic products that we use everyday (such as plastic bags‚ plastic food packaging‚ plastic eating utensils etc.) are manufactured from non-renewable sources (coal‚ oil and natural gas). These plastics are non-degradable and take more than hundreds of years to break down in landfills‚ while 29 billion tonnes of this non-degradable plastic waste are dumped into those landfills every year worldwide!

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    Americans spend billions of dollars on prescription drugs every year. Tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics‚ hormones‚ mood stabilizers‚ and other drugs are in our drinking water supplies‚ in soils‚ surface waters and groundwaters. People have been flushing down unwanted medicines in the toilet for a long time and this is affecting the rivers and even the water that we drink. After being taken these medicines are eventually eliminated from the body and flushed into the water supply

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