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    Paper or Plastic?

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    “Paper or plastic?” is the age-old question when you reach the end of your grocery-shopping trip. Have you ever wondered which is more environmentally safe? Paper and plastic in comparison have many pros and cons. They both effect our environment and animals positively and negatively. Their similar and contrasting qualities have a great impact on our earth. Plastic comes from oil‚ a hole is drilled and a pipe is inserted into the earth. Oil is forced by the earth’s pressure up the pipe‚ into a

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    Plastic Bags

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    PLASTIC BAGS Introduction One of the most commonly used items in modern generation is the plastic bag. Sufficient‚ convenient‚ strong and cheap‚ plastic bags are seem to be perfect for marketing merchandise‚ foods‚ drinks and more. However‚ there are associated issues with the production‚ use and disposal of these bags which may not be known to most users but which are nonetheless extremely important especially to the environment. To fully understand the ecological footprint of plastic bags‚ determining

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    in bird poo or by the action of guano as a result there are large deposits found around sea bird colonies which can be and are mined. Nauru an island in the South Pacific is famous for it mining sties much of the soil was mined and much of the environment was destroyed. One of the side affect of using superphosphate is that earth worms can not live in the superphosphate soil. As a result super soils will not have the structure and nutrients which worm provide. Large scale superphosphate use

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    important challenge of humanity is many threats that involved our environment. Green house gases‚ fumes or many harmful chemical productions have destroyed our natural of the world.from my point of you‚ many operations could be done to prevent these destruction. Some of these advises are discussed. To begin with‚ one of the important issues in our world is increase of green house gasses. Green house gases have harmed our environment specially the ozone layer. Many operations have done for reducing

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    Effect of the Environment on Western Settlers As the country grew and expanded‚ the American people where always one to push their bounds. In 1763‚ we proudly‚ defied England’s proclamation of the year‚ and settled west of the Appalachian mountains. A little later‚ the westward people pushed Indians‚ animals‚ and society to a place where no American person had gone before. But all the while‚ one important factor determined where they transported themselves‚ where they settled‚ and what they did

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    Industrial Effects on the Environment in the EU Though pollution caused by careless industry practices has declined since the European Union began making environmental reforms‚ it still has a great bearing on water quality in Europe. Europe ’s continued reliance on coal and oil‚ high concentration of human population‚ and high commercial density are three major reasons for the present polluted water situation. Pollution of oil into marine environments‚ though largely caused by urban runoff

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    Plastic Bags

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    A plastic shopping bag‚ the most known used product discovered by man. Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year (National Geographic News‚ 2006). As the number of usage increases‚ the rate of plastic pollution grows eventually to be an immeasurable environmental obstacle that is difficult to control. This essay will unfold the case of plastic bags to identify the outcomes

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    How far has the acceleration of economic growth produced environmental deterioration in China? China is one of the world’s economic powerhouses as it became large enough to influence the world market‚ dynamic enough to contribute to the world’s economy and sufficiently open to trade and capital flows to have a major impact on other countries. With the world’s largest current account surpluses and foreign exchange reserves and economic growth that have averaged at 10% the past thirty years‚ China’s

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    English 112 Factory Farming and its Effects on our Health‚ the Environment‚ and the Welfare of Animals The term “factory farming” has more to it than it sounds. Factory farming is a term that makes up a multitude of disturbing images‚ from rows of animals packed tightly into gigantic warehouses and misused workers striving for substandard wages‚ to massive amounts of pollutants spilling into the environment. It is a big business that tries to maximize profits and minimize

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    not ‚ whether they agree to it or disagree.Fracking is used as advanced technology but in reality it’s just slowly destroying our environment ‚because it contaminates the drinking and non-drinking water ‚ costs more than expected ‚ and it causes geographical disasters. Clean‚ Purified water is wasted and consumed by people all over‚ but no one really thinks about how much water is used for fracking.The problem may not be the amount wasted but the amount that contaminates our oceans and drinking

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