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    the growing inequality between the rich and the poor. The top over consume energy, raw materials, and manufactured goods, and the poor must cut down trees, grow crops, and fish. Due to this, both the rich and the poor are committing acts that are harmful to the planet. This leads to the next problem of inequality between the rich and the poor. The poor, because of dangerous jobs and residential segregation, are more exposed than the more well-to-do environmental dangers, known as environmental…

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    cars it would be a selfish act to not get involved in this movement. Consumers are consistently trying to find new and improved ways to lessen the effects of pollution through automobiles, and the preservation of energy through more effect energy appliances. It is our responsibility as a society to improve our environment and eliminate as many harmful wastes as we can. “Americans generate about 250 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), or household trash, annually. This amount has…

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    waste is nothing but paper, kitchen waste, and plastic. Plastic is the common term for a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials used for a huge and growing range of applications. We can find plastic in most of the items that we use today, such as our clothes, utensils, toys, bottles etc. It is a known fact the plastic is a non-biodegradable item. Non-biodegradable means that it cannot be decomposed by natural processes. As a result, plastic products persist and hence harm the…

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    most people consider themselves skillful at conserving and recycling, the truth is that most people take a trip to the landfill more often than they think. First of all, getting rid of waste is very costly, especially if there 's a trash bag in every single home in the United States. According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, the average person produces 4.3 pounds of waste per day and the 220 million tons of waste…

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    Title The Effects of Global Warming on the Oceans Marine Life Research Ocean acidification has occurred slowly since the industrial revolution, as mankind began to add excess amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. CO2, one of the greenhouse gases produced in excess, was absorbed by the ocean, and the effects of this gas are devastating to marine life and their ecosystems. The CO2 produces carbonic acid, which lowers the pH of saltwater, and this in turn creates a harmful environment…

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    activity that affects the earth is Pollution. Whether it is caused by land, noise, water or air pollution, it is harmful to the environment we live in. To develop the…

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    man – made, harmful contaminants polluting the ocean. These impurities are accounted for by the fertilizers, petroleum, pesticides and other soil contaminating chemicals. Dead zones are created by the inflow of fertilizers and wastes from land animals and humans too which are a huge detriment to the oceans.  Littering – objects far inland are blown by the winds ending up in the oceans. These objects range from natural to man – made substances like dust to sand and debris to trash. Plastic…

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    Ocean Pollution Plastic is a very useful and universal product that is soft and flexible and used in everyday living. Plastic is used in almost everything like shower curtains, kid’s toys, water bottles, pvc pipes for houses and buildings and even teething toys for babies. It might seem that the ocean is huge and there’s plenty fish in the sea. The changes in the ocean aren’t caused by pollution. Their just changes of the planets natural orbit…

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    Goodbye Plastic Water Bottles In the United States, Americans use 50 billion plastic bottles a year. To put that in perspective, Americans consume about 1500 plastic water bottles per second. That is way too much to be using just to use something to drink out of. The United States has some of the safest drinking water in the world, so why do we need to have bottled water that claims to be “purified” or from some springs? The answer is we don’t. In Austin, Texas we have already banned…

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    that desalination is expensive, destitute countries in need of clean water are without access to saltwater, requiring additional work to transport the distilled product to these areas. Contrarily, bioplastics are remarkably efficient. Unlike regular plastics, they provide healthy nutrients to Earth’s surface when they degrade. By virtue of their infallibility, bioplastics will become prevalent in the near…

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