Automatic waste container

the problem of pollution on the earth is not understood by most people. 75% of Americans admitted to littering in the past year (King, 2013). The math comes out to be roughly 242,797,500 people that have thrown a piece of trash on the ground. This waste accumulates over time. The top two most common things littered are cigarette butts, and fast food packages. Smokers don’t think throwing their cigarette butt out the window or dropping it on the ground is littering, but it counts for 50% of…

know that increase has a lot to do with the growing population around the world. Yet, as we continue to grow in numbers of people, we also continue to lack a sufficient amount of natural resources to go around as well as places to absorb all of the waste we create. We have been given natural resources that can be taken for granted so easily because we never think of what life will be like when they’re gone. We have never had to live in a world without them so we need to learn, globally, how to…

bottle floating down beneath it. I investigated the surface of the water and the concrete areas under and around the bridge, and I discovered that the most common types of pollution were glass/plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic bags, and food containers that come from large fast food chains, like KFC and Subway. Many people argued that the reason for this pollution was because of the lack of bins around this area, but there were at least 4 bins in close vicinity of the bridge, so that…

Mad Max: Fury Road paints a society where the line between "machine" and "human" is aggressively blurred. The dependence on fossil fuels and the dehumanizing objectification of humans leads to exploitation of both people and the earth. Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor provides a deeper context of the resource curses and inequalities that may cause such a society, both in the film and in our own world today. In the world of Fury Road, both humans and the earth…

The amazing penguin rescue and The seabird chronicle According to “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle”, the oil spills are hurting more than 41,000 little penguins. When the penguins were getting sick in the oil spills tons of thousands of people started helping to save the penguins. “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle” have similarities and differences such as the conflict and how the setting creates a specific mood of the story. One similarity…

everything from all kinds of waste whether generated during the extraction of raw materials or after the consumption of final products. It is present everywhere, even in the middle of the oceans. Trash Inc: The Secret Life of Garbage is a documentary film showing the waste produced around the world and the life cycle of trash/garbage. The documentary explains what happens to the garbage when it’s thrown away and its impact on the people and the world. It shows how the waste management industry…

“Noyle found himself literally swimming in a sea of garbage,” this is an excerpt of the passage “Garbage Swell.” The author is explaining one of the many effects that humans are having on the availability and condition of the water. Humans in society nowadays are harming the water in the ocean, are affecting the quality of the water in the world, and are wasting a significant amount of water. This report will be talking about how the actions of humans have and are changing the availability and…

eventually do. Plastic bags cost about 3.5 cents each, but the cost to clean them up is about 17 cents per bag on average. Tax payers end up paying about 88 dollars per year just on plastic bag waste (10 reasons why plastic bags should be banned,2017,October 26). In an effort to help reduce the amount of waste and pollution by plastic bags some countries have banned plastic bag to help lower the risk of pollution. Africa has banned plastic bags or taxed them in…

In this modern world, plastic be the most used material for packaging in almost every industry. The word ‘plastic’ comes from the Greek plastikos which means easily shaped (Robertson, 2013). Plastic is the combination of many molecules that linked together as one long chain which made from polymers: poly (Greek) means many and meros (Greek) means part (Robertson, 2013). Raw materials of plastic are called feedstock which come from natural and synthetic resources, such as crude oil, natural gas,…

Plastic is used in many man-made items, which are used in people’s everyday lives. Since only 9% of plastic is properly recycled, the majority of plastic waste either “accumulates in landfills” or gets dumped into the ocean and other natural environments (Parker, L., 2017). There are multiple reasons why plastic ends up in the ocean. Some examples include, people do not properly recycle plastic, small plastic particles go down sink drains, and it is cheaper for companies to dump all of their…