Space debris

I. Executive Summary Right now there is close to 5 million metric tons of Plastic waste in the ocean, and Toronto alone is responsible for using 100 million plastic bottles a year. Most of these bottles just end up in landfills even though there are many plastic recycling centers around the world, especially in Canada. Plastics R’ Us is an Idea for a company that allows plastic waste to be shredded to dust. This dust could be used to make products ranging from book covers to supplies for…

Each year, littering causes 1 million birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 4,600 sea turtles to die. Guess who makes that happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million…

Coco beach is a public beach with no entrance fee unlike other beaches in the Dar-es-salaam city in Tanzania. The beach is dirty and polluted which has lowered the attraction for visitors and residents. Hence it is necessary to estimate the recreational use value of Coco beach in order to maintain its environmental quality and avoid the irreversible damage. Non-market valuations have become increasingly important for placing monetary values for the environmental goods and services. The specified…

Glaser (Surf-rider foundation), Dr. Andrea Neal (Jean-Michel Cousteau), Professor Christopher Cogan (CSU Channel Islands) want to make people aware of the damage they are doing to animals and the planet because of the high concentration of plastic debris and detritus that has accumulated in the North Pacific Ocean due to ocean currents. Pollution in our oceans is a serious problem, because most of the waste that is dumped is plastic, which takes hundreds of years to break down. On the first…

Dermochelys coriacea, better known as Leatherback Turtle is the world’s largest turtle with a length of 1.6 m and a weight of 300 to 600 kg, fourth-heaviest modern reptile and is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family Dermochelyidae. This turtle earns his common name because it lacks the typical bony plates on its carapace, instead, is flexible and covered in a thin layer of leathery skin, is dark in colour with white and pink spots. Females have a characteristic 'pink spot'…

An outlet mall in Southern California was full of shoppers, entering and exiting the various stores. As groups of people left the food court around lunch hour, they sipped their coffee. Once they finished their drinks, despite the nearby trash cans, they dropped their cups onto the ground and casually walked off. This is simply one example of littering in our society, but if this issue is not resolved, the ecosystem will suffer greatly. Victorian Litter Action Alliance’s “Litter Statistics Fact…

Why did the statue of liberty green? The statue of liberty in New York on June 19, 1885. The statue is green because the statue started as a copper statue and then over the years the copper started to tarnish and turn a light brown over the years eventually turning green. Why did the cape hateras statue move? They had to move the statue because it was a danger to the lighthouse because it was on the coast and the land it was built on its not stable because the lighthouse might be destroyed.…

An issue that would cause myself to start a petition is the topic of ocean dumping. Ocean dumping consists of toxic waste being dropped into the ocean and this would cause for a lot of changes to be made. The changes I would make would be to greatly reduce the amount of waste dumped into the oceans or if possible completely avoid sewage being put into the ocean. Not only this, but it would be important to bring up a way to clean up the ocean in order to preserve it and protect the animals that…

There is an old legend about a monster living in the depths of Loch Ness. Some say that it is a dinosaur, others say it's a giant serpent, and others believe it is something else. However, I believe it is one big fat hoax. Many Loch Ness plants and animals are large, large enough to be confused for a monster. One example of something that could be confused as a monster is a sturgeon. Many Loch Ness sightings described Nessie to have bony plates on its back, which matches a sturgeons…

Hemp has always been looked down upon due to its relation to Cannabis in it’s habitual use, but it has many benefits to the plastic industry. We should use hemp in the production of plastic. Hemp is renewable source - unlike crude oil - it’s biodegradable - reducing land and sea pollution, requires no new machinery to manufacture and is 4 times more CO2 the air during its growth period. Hemp, when in plastic form, is still completely biodegradable. When plastic is dumped into landfills, it…