Annie Leonard is the author of Plastic Microbeads: Don’t Use as Directed. She is the executive director of Greenpeace USA and investigates and explains environmental and social impacts of our stuff in words and film. In the article‚ her main arguement is that the manufactures of plastic tend to blame the consumer for not properly disposing or recycling the plastic products that they make but with microbeads they cannot lay that blame on us for the damage that microbeads are doing to the environment
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CAUSES OF BABY DUMPING AMONG TEENAGERS Monday‚ 25 February 2013 Increasing baby dumping cases all over the nation shown us this situation can be classified as critical social crisis‚ many factor will lead to this situation. The baby dumping can refer to discarding or leaving alone for extended period of time‚ a child younger than 12 months of age in a public or private setting with the extent to dispose of the child. Based on the police statistic‚ it shown the increasing of case related to baby
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Growing up in this millennial generation has been different from the others. The economy that we live in today has different values than what our parents and grandparents have gone through. Our environment has become a world wide sensation and is a topic of discussion in almost every learning environment. In this day and age you could do so much to help the world‚ economy and your community. This short documentary discussed the environment and ways for us to not cause much stress on it. Each great
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Largest Landfill in the World Soon going to the will no longer be a vacation option unless you do not plan to swim. There will probably be a huge amount of plastic and trash in the water. This is due to the Pacific trash vortex. All of the plastic that has accumulated over the years had either eended up in a landfill or in the ocean. It is however‚ more likely that the trash has ended up in the ocean. Trash that people just toss in the water ends up in the ocean. Americans fail to
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trash has grown 80% from 87.5mill tons to 157 tons per year‚ not including the 90 million tons created by industry every year. In 1988 over 70% of the landfills were closed‚ the US government then had to figure out how we were going to deal with this huge amount of trash each year. The 4 main solutions they came up with were opening more landfills‚ incineration‚ shipping out of the country‚ and oh yeah Recycling. Three out of these four were very bad‚ both ecologically and ethically. But the fourth
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nightmare; however‚ according to the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department‚ the three major strategic landfills in Hong Kong will be saturated in the mid to late 2010s. In other words‚ our landfills are going to be filled up within ten years. It implies that Hong Kong indeed has an imminent waste problem associated with the sturation of the landfills. At present‚ we depend merely on landfills to dispose of our garbage. Therefore‚ it will be inevitable for us to face great trouble concerning the
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policies‚ provincial and federal legislation. Essential Functions: The trainee will be responsible for: • the efficient operation of the landfill site‚ including liaison with and direction to contractor(s) operating at the landfill; make recommendations on improving work methods; and assist with the administration of the landfill contract; • interpreting and analyzing groundwater and surface water monitoring data‚ and making recommendations regarding groundwater and surface
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week we will be discussing dumps and landfills. We will first describe what is meant by open dumping and also what a landfill is. We will be discussing early to modern landfills and the differences between then and now. We will discuss what some of the problems were with early landfills and also what improvements have been made with newer landfills. Finally‚ we are to choose one the listed landfills and explain the innovations being implemented to make the landfill more productive and to reduce its
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What is Land Pollution? Land pollution can be defined as acts occurring on an area resulting in colour change‚ fertility‚ and erosion. It is caused by waste in the form of liquid or solid. Introduction to Land Pollution The presence of chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment Results in a change of the soil quality Affects the normal use of the soil Endangering public health and the living environment Causes of LAND POLLUTION
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Landfill is a main way of waste management in Hong Kong‚ but it may not be a sustainable way to solve or relieve the garbage problem. Moreover‚ landfill also will eventually saturate. It’s an urgent problem to stakeholders. In fact‚ an annual average of more than one million tons of wastes are produced in Hong Kong. Landfill is not the only way the government can plan for waste disposal. Building an incinerator to relieve the refuse pressure is also viable. In fact‚ a lot of waste is dumped without
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