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    Garbology Report

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    For the Garbology report, I have chosen to excavate my friends midden located in his apartment. He shares this apartment with three other people and I am examining their kitchen trash. When excavating I stared out with one big trash bag and then continued down the bag and noticed everything was in layers. The top was not as compiled as the bottom, however once I got to the middle and bottom section of the trash I noticed that things were compressed together and more items were stuck together…

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    to keep it” (Gen. 2:15, King James Version). God commanded His people to be stewards unto his creations. The environment as a whole includes the land, water, air, and animals, all of which requires care and maintenance. Conserving the environment is one of the best ways to thank God for his allowance of such a great task. Christians have numerous ways to conserve and preserve the environment, such as going green, which involves reducing waste, discovering other sources of energy, and recycling…

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    Pollution In Hawaii

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    parks, and other places to stay. All of the trash generated have an impact on animals and people. For example, plastic is part of the trash being developed which can cause pollution. Also, when sea turtles get stuck in plastic, it suffocates them making the sea creature vulnerable and won’t be able to do things to their full potential. This problem leads and can impact people because when fish eat the plastic, some of the plastic has toxins so when people eat fish, these toxins go in humans…

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    (at one point or another) had so much litter and pollution that when you walked outside it was constantly dark, so you wouldn’t know whether is was morning or evening! Together, we need to change the way that people think of littering (especially plastic and you will find out why). In fact, if people would simply just stop littering, our world would be remarkably different; it could potentially be so different you might no recognize it! Our ecosystem today is greatly affected by our…

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    make the extra effort to recycle for a multitude of reasons. Recycling helps save the environment, conserves resources, reduces landfill space and saves money. Recycle Across America states that recycling is the top action society can do to simultaneously improve the environment, the economy and sustainable manufacturing. One major reason why you should recycle is because it has a monumental impact on the environment. Recycle Across America additionally states…

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    Polylactic Acid

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    Polylactic Acid Plastics have played a major role in shaping modern society, ultimately improving the quality of life. Making up most things man-made, plastics surround us every day. They possess unique characteristics; plastics can be tough and rigid yet still flexible and can be opaque yet transparent. The building blocks of plastics are small organic molecules often known as monomers, which then join to other monomers creating long molecule chains called polymers in a process called…

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    Us human as individuals have an enormous impact on the environment, whether is for clothing, shelter or even the needs for resources such as food, energy and water. Not only are we affecting the long- term availability of these resources but affecting the well-functioning of our planet such as climate systems and nutrient cycles in the atmosphere due to pollution. This doesn’t mean our Earth has to keep taking these punishment because its more than the big things that are going to make the…

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    demands future generations to fix the issue. This domino effect created by people has cost us the future of peoples great grandkids and the endangerment of pivotal species. Are plastic bags more important than sea turtles and natural disasters? Both Vandana Shiva in her book Soil, Not Oil and Colin Beaven in his book No Impact Man, explore and discuss humanity's growing consumption and interdependence on fossil-based carbon. Beaven’s family…

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    exhausted and can be restored with nature. In addition, Restorative Components of Environments Scale (RCES) and Ulrich’s Psychoevolutionary theory will be examined to demonstrate how they also relate to my experience with nature. The second experience will focus on the wider environment. Relating to my experience I will explain how defence mechanisms can be used to deal with how individuals act or feel in relation to the environment. In addition, Worthy’s phenomenal dissociation…

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    commitment to the environment and tremendous efforts undertaken to lessen the environmental impact of their business. Being able to do this for 40 years in an industry sector like manufacturing which has most of its processes impacting the environment is a commendable achievement. This is also evident from the fact that one of the guiding principles of Solberg says “We Love Our Planet”.…

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