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    Littering happens everywhere and have caused problems in our parks, lakes, oceans, and the wilderness. It affects the environment in which we live in and of animals, too. By littering you're basically hurting or even killing animals that you adore because wastes can be dangerous to them. PETA, an American animal rights organization, wrote an article about litter. In the article it showed pictures of dead whales, and because there were so much plastics in their body they didn't make it. The…

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    What Was Matt's Mistake

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    Essentially, everything he did was a mistake. Bombing scenes are basically no different than other crime scenes in basic processing principles and procedures, many times on a larger scale Basic principles such as scene safety and security, scene documentation, evidence collection/processing, specialized equipment, witness and victim interviews, removal of human remains, and releasing the scene are all based on the same principles. Matt’s first mistake was “immediately” going straight to the…

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    Auto Wrecker Importance

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    11) IMPORTANT ROLE OF AUTO WRECKERS Auto Wrecker means, One who dismantles cars for salvage. Canadian Auto Wreckers are the top most auto wrecking company in Great Toronto Area includes Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, Bomanville, Courtice, Newmarket, Ajax, Pickering, Oshawa, Richmond Hill, Markham, Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke, East York, Thornhill, Keswick. Cars are valuable assets as they help us to transport from one place to another. They also help us to carry our things…

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    practice of disproportional siting hazardous waste facilities in low income communities of color throughout the United States. Most of the time the state corporate actors are the ones responsible they are the ones who decide where to place the hazardous waste; the state corporate is more concern with where to place the hazardous waste rather than the health and safety of the community, people and their environment. In 1987 a report was released Toxic Waste and Race by the United Church of…

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    While situational crime prevention (SCP) and crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) share similarities in their application, they also have distinct differences. Ron Clarke (1998), who pioneered SCP, highlights that SCP focus is broader in regards to both the settings it intervenes and techniques it applies, while CPTED concentrates on the design and maintenance of built environments. Clarke (1998) further notes that CPTED is more concerned with public and semi-public place, and…

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    Problems In West Chicago

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    “Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.” A quote by Kenyan Proverb that makes one think deeply about the future, of ours, and of our children. Many of our peers do not think deeply about this aspect, they only do if the facts are directly presented to them. Littering causes many negative affects on people, our community, and the economy. There are many possible solutions for this issue but, we decided to go for a simple, yet helpful…

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    Creating A Parking Lot

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    If you have ever had to deal with standing water in your parking lot, you could be wondering if there is anything that you can do to help prevent it. If you hire a team of asphalt paving experts, they should be able to help with this in multiple ways. These are a few steps that they can take that can help you avoid having this problem in the future. Creating a Slope First of all, having an adequate slope in your parking lot is very important. If your parking lot is not sloped, then water will…

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    Machado Lake Summary

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    Sitting on kid-sized benches during Open House for the Henrietta Storm Water Basin Improvement Project and with our backs to the bright morning sun, John Dettle, P.E. and Engineering Manager for the City of Torrance, answered my questions about the Machado Lake Trash TMDL project. "You start with the regulations", he said. (J. Dettle, November 7, 2015). The US Environmental Protection Agency declared Machado Lake impaired in 1998 and 2002, and in 2008 the State Water Resources Control Board…

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    is committed to maintaining our excellent reputation and conducting our mission in a manner that will protect and minimize impact to human health, natural resources and the environment. Our goal is to sustain mission capability while integrating excellent environmental practices, improvements, and compliance to laws and regulations applicable to our mission. This goal extends throughout the 169th Fighter Wing and the tenant units assigned to McEntire JNGB. Protecting the environment at…

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    Flooded basements are a prevalent problem among home owners in Canada. Every year millions of dollars is spent on repair, rehabilitation, and in efforts to cover for the personal losses caused by a wet basement. A wet basement, whether damp, leaky or flooded, requires immediate rectification of the leaks, and restoration. A basement flood might happen at any time or to any building, the major influencing factors here are heavy rains and snowmelts. Basement flooding need not necessarily be…

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