"Utilitarian ethic of pollution control" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 36 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Salt Pollution

    • 1484 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Salt Pollution As awareness for pollution increases‚ other forms of pollution are defined. Almost everyone knows about toxic waste and carbon dioxide pollution‚ but not many people have heard of salt pollution. Salt pollution has been on the increase since the evolution of the automobile. With more pressure on government agencies to keep the highway clear and safe‚ an increase in the use of salt has developed. It is important to understand why salt is used and how it work as well as the environmental

    Premium Water Salt Sodium chloride

    • 1484 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    River Pollution

    • 466 Words
    • 2 Pages

    RIVER POLLUTION River is very important because it can provide clean water and can act as a main source of protein to human beings. Most of the drinking water consumed by the people of the world originates from the river. If the river has been polluted‚ then the tarnished river water needs to be filtered through a series of intricate and money-consuming process. The picture above clearly shows that the pollution of water happened because of the ignorant act of dumping rubbish and toxic

    Premium Waste Pollution Water

    • 466 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    air pollution

    • 1311 Words
    • 4 Pages

    are at the alarming rate. If there is nothing done about it‚ Vietnam will soon suffering the consequences. This paper is to give the audience a clearer view of air pollution in Vietnam including reasons‚ affects and suggesting solutions. 2. Discussion of finding 2.1 Reasons 2.1.2 Motor vehicles There are several causes of air pollution; the vast majority of them can be attributed by man. Many people are unaware of the serious problems they expose to the world by letting such dangerous chemical

    Free Air pollution Pollution

    • 1311 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Automobile Pollution

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Automobile Pollution. Automobiles can cause many different kinds of pollution in the environment. Air‚ health and groundwater pollution are of the most common. The reasons for these problems can be contributed to exhaust systems and light switches that are standard equipment on most cars today. Older and newer cars alike are equipped with a catalytic converter system. Which are supposed to convert hydrocarbons‚ carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides into harmless materials emitted from the automobiles

    Premium Automobile Internal combustion engine

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Oil Pollution

    • 721 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Oil Pollution-Case Study The following case study is about the impacts that oil pollution produces in the sea‚ specifically in this case in the coasts of South Wales. This incident was due to the stranding of an oil tanker from the company Sea Empress. The cause for this oil pollution was that a 147‚000 tonne oil tanker from Sea Empress ran aground‚ even though they were controlled by the harbor pilots. The oil tanker would have been docked earlier but because of the heavy seas it took longer.

    Premium Petroleum Exxon Valdez oil spill Oil spills

    • 721 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Pollution Context

    • 1186 Words
    • 5 Pages

    | |Subject: Life Skills Grade: 3 | |Environmental theme: Pollution | |Learning outcomes: Personal and social well-being. The learner will |Assessment standards: Baseline‚ and formative Ask the learner to

    Premium Pollution Environmentalism Waste

    • 1186 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Air Pollution

    • 1697 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Air Pollution * Pollutants enter the air from various sources‚ but burning of fossil fuels contributes the most to air pollution. * Exhaust fumes from vehicles contains soot (tiny carbon particles)‚ lead (from cars using unleaded petrol)‚ carbon monoxide‚ oxides of nitrogen and hydrocarbons due to the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels. * Burning of fossil fuels in the combustion engines of vehicles and electrical power stations also releases large amount of carbon dioxide into the

    Free Air pollution Oxygen Smog

    • 1697 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Kantian Ethics It is clear from the case study that Alistair knows the contract is unorthodox. The problem he faces is whether he should overlook the bribe or report it to the board. The board of directors expects Alistair to tell the truth and report the bribe because of: his position as Chief Legal Officer‚ the board has a very strong ethics policy and they are wary of unethical activities. Immanual Kant theorised that moral rules are based on reason‚ in other words the ability to think and form

    Premium Morality Immanuel Kant Deontological ethics

    • 967 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Plastic Pollution

    • 16271 Words
    • 66 Pages

    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

    Premium Marine debris Pacific Ocean Ocean

    • 16271 Words
    • 66 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Water Pollution

    • 3918 Words
    • 16 Pages

    ------------------------------------------------- Service quality Continuity of supply In 2004‚ water supply was available on average for 18 hours each day in the West Zone of Metro Manila and 21 hours in the East Zone. According to their respective websites‚ the utility responsible for water supply in the East Zone of Metro Manila increased 24-hour water from 26% in 1997 to 98% in 2007‚ whereas in the West Zone‚ 42% of the customers had an uninterrupted supply in 2007. In a 2004 sample of 45

    Premium Water

    • 3918 Words
    • 16 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 50