treated. Many families have grown up in danger of being affected by these harmful substances and haven’t had a fair say when it comes to the accumulation of waste proximal to their area. From the early 1920s-1978‚ more than 80% of Houston’s garbage landfills and incinerators have been located
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and inert construction waste. Some of the non-inert construction waste can be recycled like bamboo while some inert constructions waste like bitumen and concrete and used as some land formation. However‚ the construction waste are more likely to go landfill. The rest is Special waste like waster sludge‚ livestock waste and some chemical
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long run it doesn’t benefit as much as we think it is. But majority votes that we are a throw away society but there are a lot of different ways to help that. In some neighborhoods‚ going down the alley you can see the bright blue trash cans and know right away that those are for recycling cans. But how many of those neighborhoods really are there? The communities that do the best with recycling are the ones who work together. So wouldn’t it make sense to work together not only as a community‚ city
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There needs to be a mandatory computation for families sent out‚ like a census‚ to track their usage for a week to as a means of bringing like to the amount of waste being generated. In calculating my own use‚ as a family of five‚ I found my landfill bag to be the fullest at the end of the week‚ yet the recyclables‚ paper included‚ weighed the most. Paper in my home is abundance‚ yet the more paper the less trees and although this destroys a living organism and seems to be the easiest for anyone
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The earth‚ as we know it‚ is slowly becoming a landfill. Mountains of garbage are accumulating everywhere. Garbage is accumulating not only on land but in the ocean as well. If this continues the earth itself will become a giant landfill. The air will become greatly polluted as well as the water. These unhealthy habits must change. One healthy way to reduce the large amount of garbage on earth is to recycle. Although it may be easier to just throw a bottle or soda can into a trash‚ as many lazy Americans
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We need to spend more time informing our youth and our communities about the positive effects recycling has on our neighborhoods‚ communities‚ states‚ nation and most importantly our one and only planet Earth. Since our nation is growing and changing‚ newer technology will help reduce trash build up and with creative innovative approaches to get more people to recycle we
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“About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water‚ air and soil pollution‚” (Lang) what do people think of when they hear pollution? Some would think of dirty skies and blackened waters or others would think of landfills. They are all correct‚ each one of those images is a sever pollution problem. (Socha) For the last several years the problem of too much pollution has been brought to public attention and small steps to stop it have been taken but the main causes of pollution are still there
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has observed 56 percent more Hong Kong consumers bringing their own bags for shopping than that before the levy is imposed (Ians 2009). Government could eventually use the environmental levy collected for good environmental causes such as clearing landfills. However‚ Singapore government adopts the approach of encouraging retailers to voluntarily charge on plastic bags to be more environmental friendly. It is more expected from the retailers themselves to take the initiative to charge for plastic
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and ambitious picker and president of a landfill company located right outside of Rio de janeiro‚ Brazil known as ACAMJG (the Association of Recycling Pickers of Jardim Gramacho)‚ who was encouraged by the political texts he saw in the waste and elevate the lives of his fellow catadores. For years‚ tiao has been collecting recycled material ever since he was an minor‚ and believed he could turn this into a long life hobby. The neighborhood where the landfill was located was a awful poor looking community
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Outline Thesis Statement: Burning waste at the sanitary landfill in Philipsburg causes pests‚ parasites and bad odor around the residential areas. I).What is sanitary landfill II).The sanitary landfill a). Problems b). cause pollutions III). Burning waste b). can cause serious health problems IV. The waste from the St. Maarten Medical Center a). Cancer patients b). Higher sickness V). Heavy machinery is used a). Dirt and compressed b)
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