Solid Waste Management Essay

and asphalt (IDPH, 2009). The most common way that PAHs enter the body is through breathing air that contaminated with the PAHs such as tobacco smoke, fumes from vehicle exhaust, wildfires,coal, asphalt,coal tar, agricultural burning and hazardous waste sites. Eat or drink food and water contaminated with PAHs. Also, exposure occurs if an individual skin contacts PAH-contaminated soil or products like heavy oils, coal tar, roofing tar, or creosote. A study showed that PAHs compounds have caused…

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the harmful effects of littering, and persuade them to potentially stop littering all together. Central Idea: To help clean up our earth by persuading people to stop littering. Introduction: My goal for this not to tell you what to do or tell you how to live your life. It is merely to inform you on a major issue that has gotten worse throughout the years. I want you all to imagine a world where every step you take, you step on a piece of garbage.…

Upon investigation, Tello concluded the Paracas culture used an artificial preservation technique that he formulated because of a suspected carbonization of the bundles. Tello inferred that there was a form of incineration that the Paracas people used in their preservation (Guillén 2004) and concluded that this may have been ceremonial or accidental. Yet, in a study by Yacovleff and Muelle, they argue that mummification was caused by natural desiccation (Vreeland Jr 1998). They cite the aridity…

Paul Bogard, writer of the article, “Let There Be Dark,” presents interesting and engaging information to gain support for the reduction of artificial light pollution in our night skies. He displays the importance of changing from the current state by giving us some reasons why we can’t let the light pollution progress, examples of how we can fix it, and engages our feelings of responsibility when we see that we need to take care of our world. The first point he makes is a common daily…

National Parks have been around since 1972 and every year about 282 million people come to the parks every year to witness the great beauty of them. It is critical that we preserve it for the environment, animals and so generations of people can come witness the beauty of them. America may be not have old buildings and history that spans back thousands of years, but our nature is the pride and joy of the nation. Since national parks are so great, everyone wants to participate and come and see…

In the video, Plastic Oceans it mentioned facts about water that I was surprised about. For example, microplastics can be mistaken for fish by the sea water chicks, the plastics then stay in their body, and the birds don't know any better, so they keep eating the microplastics. The microplastics add up over time and eventually kill them. Not many chicks make it to adulthood because of the pollution. Water pollution is not only affecting birds. About 3.5 million pieces of new plastic enter the…

our Excessive Food Waste Contributes to Climate Change Briana Clementz Denver South high school Spring 2017  Abstract How large of an impact does the food we waste have on the environment? Or better yet, how much food do we actually waste annually? According to Ira Flatow of NPR, we waste approximately 33 million tons of food in the United States every single year. By using scientific and argumentative resources, I was able to research just how large of an impact food waste in America has…

Description This is the Yellow Tube Sponge, also known as the Aplysina aerophoba. The animal’s name is very self explanatory. This animal, who is commonly mistaken for a plant, has a rough outer, tube-like shell. It is yellow, hence the name. Also, it is hollowed out, with one tube coming out from the top, and it is capable of growing to 3 feet tall. The Aplysina aerophoba in its natural habitat. Habitat The Yellow Tube Sponge lives underwater, near the northern zone of the Atlantic ocean.…

Dumpster divers can be the bane of a business owner's existence. While they are out there rifling through your dumpster under the cover of darkness (or often even in broad daylight,) they can leave behind a mess that you have to send one of your employees out to clean up. Not only is this frustrating, but it is ultimately costing your money when it comes to wasted time your staff could be using to do their actual job instead. Unless it is specifically prohibited by local regulations, dumpster…

Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico must be stopped.Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is horrible for lots of people and animals.It hurts are loving environment,are animals,and it hurts the wallet of the U.S. This drilling is killing are beautiful coral reefs.In this paper one is going to see how bad these horrible oil rigs are running are earth. Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico killies harmless little animals.The oil has killed birds,rare fish,and fish that people commerical fish for that we…