Industrial waste

all that food that was picked off the grocery shelves will ever meet the mouth of the consumer who bought it. Much of that food will instead be sent straight to the local landfill. The misuse and sheer waste of food today in the US is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Some argue that the waste of food is that important of an issue, but a careful examination suggests that the economic, ethical…

My First Mission Trip To Nogales Mexico At eleven years old I remember being in our SUV with my parents and five sisters for about three hours, heading south through the hot Arizona desert and crossing the border between Arizona and Nogales, Mexico. We were going to visit an area called Tira Viche and help the people living there. This place is where all the trash from the city is disposed, and recycled by people. When I say, “recycled by people” I literally mean it. The people there, both…

At the surface, “Wall-E” is an enjoyable movie about a lonely robot, whose main task is to collect garbage on Earth. Beneath the surface, the movie is so much more, Wall-E is needed to save the planet from permanent destruction, while becoming smitten with EVE. When the audience first meets Wall-E, he is alone on Earth with nothing but a pet cockroach. Even though the planet is deemed as uninhabitable for humans, Wall-E must continue to follow his directive of cleaning the garbage off the planet…

Everywhere look today, there is garbage on the ground trees cut down, and polluted water and skies. This is not a new sight for anyone by any means, whether you live in a big city or a small town, you see garbage everywhere. Even as the months change it seems as if the garbage follows. Day by day more is added on top of the existing trash, it covers the ground, and clouds up, and ruins our water and skies. Humans are to blame for the excessive amounts of debris in our world, but, in some places…

Guy Maisonneuve Prof. Smith ENGL 109.11 2 Nov. 2017 Meat Eater In 2012, the total meat consumption in the United States was 52 billion pounds. That is about 270 pounds per person a year. Luxembourg is the only other country to consume more meat person at around 301 pounds consumed per person (Barclay). While meat consumption in the United States, since the early 1900’s, has skyrocketed. Furthermore, so has the number of Vegetarians in U.S. society. Approximately ten percent of the U.S.…

Established in 1970 as a sanitary waste facility, Jardim Gramacho soon became home to the catadores people who spend their…

Introduction: It is estimated that around 706 million gallons(2.6 Billion liters) of oil is polluted into the ocean each year(4). Majority of the oil pollution oil comes from ashore from waste disposal, land drainage and improper disposal of used motor oil(4). In recent times it has been discovered that a possible solution for oil pollution is the “Oleo Sponge”(as seen in figure 1(11)), an oleophilic and hydrophobic sponge that collects oil and rejects water housing up to ninety times its own…

The biggest landfill has 1,500 trucks delivering 12,000 tons of garbage a day. This landfill is in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The amount of waste that this landfill is currently holding is around 3.7 million tons. That amount of trash covers 700 acres and towers almost 500 feet tall ("Puente Hills..."). Smaller landfills are also becoming overused. Smaller towns do not have as much of land to…

to the buildup of plastics. One major area in particular that seems to be neglected is oceans. The Pacific Ocean holds the largest landfill in the world; estimating roughly the magnitude of Texas, and approximately 33 feet deep of plastics, buoyant waste, and other non-biodegradable material (Bush, 534). How does this affect people? Scheid also states in her article that roads and highways can become dangerous when truck beds are not fastened down properly, causing debris to tumble out of the…

Nowadays, with the entire population increase in both major cities and suburbs, being close to the nature is something that is one doesn’t get to enjoy. Apart from going for occasional campaign trips or trekking some people like to a have a bit of nature close to their home. Planning to have a beautiful landscape might be an ideal way to have that. Most people might do not realize the value of landscaping. That may be the reason why most people just keep their yard the way it is just by…