Industrial waste

and stop. “About 80% of marine debris originates from sources on land and the other 20%, about 636,000 tons per year, comes from ocean vessels. Cruise ships represent 1% of marine, but produce 25% of ship-sourced waste; on average, a single cruise ship passenger produces 3.5 kg of waste per day”(Polsenberg). This is a reason why pollution is caused because people not only pollute from land but they do it while on boats and this makes it harder for the pollution to be stopped because not many…

The world has 7 oceans and they are all being neglected in some way or another, some people try to save them but there's only so much they can do. The oceans have suffered at the hands of mankind for millions of years. The chemical change in the water is causing hundreds of animals to wash up on the shores died. On a microscopic level the ocean have been dying for a long time but most people never noticed until something on a large scale died. The oceans may be damaged beyond repair, but…

Will Allen, the author of the text, through his extensive hard work paired with his undying determination, was able to strengthen communities of people through the concept of growing one’s own food. His ideologies, along with his tactics, would be useful for any community, regardless of its location. This sort of movement is especially helpful for people who live in suburbs or in cities and are surrounded by food that does not help them sustain a healthy lifestyle or a well functioning community…

Each late spring, individuals run to the Great Lakes to swim and fish in the apparently unbounded waters and climb along the untainted shores. In any case, a foreboding undercurrent streams simply beyond anyone's ability to see. Beneath the water's surface wraths a natural calamity 200 years really taking shape. In The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, writer Dan Egan portrays how the lakes' characteristic history offered route to an unnatural one. From the impacts of worldwide exchange and…

Prepare for Winter to Prevent Foundation Problems Winter is just around the corner, and even if it is still sunlight, preparing for winter can save you money when the year's first frost hits. This includes properly maintaining your basement, foundation, gutters, and downspouts. Winter preparation not only makes your home more efficient, it also lowers heating bills and increases the stability of your home's structure. Here are a few tips to help you prepare your home for winter. Clean…

According to the Earth Institute, each year, one trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide.Plastic bags are harming the ocean. There should be a fee on plastic bags. Polluting is happening everywhere the reason this is happening because people are careless and sometimes bags slip away and the bags just fly away and go up in streets.The birds are also mistaken the plastic for food and giving it to their babies.Their should be a fee on plastic because the plastic is polluting the oceans and…

One of the most popular and rapidly growing types of metal detecting is metal detecting on the beach or near the sand. Just using a regular metal detector on sand in the past has made it a lot more difficult to locate items beneath the sands surface. With some of the improvements recently in the metal detectors, if beach metal detecting is your preference the advances recently made have mad your job a lot easier. The beach metal detector pretty much works the same way as any other metal…

With the actions happening around you it will most likely make you sad or have mixed emotions. You will be more inclined to help solve the problem and make your town a better place. Corpus Christi has many political subcultures but I feel as if the waste in the ocean environment is the most important.…

The Everglades calm, peaceful, and elegant but something terrible is happening to the Everglades. The water for the Everglades it's peaceful calm and clean or at least it was before we got there. When we got there we took their water pumps it into houses with no regard to the wildlife or indigenous flora The Everglades is slowly dying and getting polluted by us. The Everglades is a very fragile ecosystem,” even the tiniest change can have a large impact” (quote from Past and Present: The Florida…

Tin is a Chemical element its symbol is Sn. Its location on the periodic table of elements is period 5 group 14. Its atomic number is 50 and the atomic weight is 118.71. It has 50 protons, 50 electrons, and 69 neutrons. Tin is a solid, ductile, malleable, silvery-white metal. Tin melts at a low temperature of about 232 °C (450 °F). Tin resists corrosion from water, but can be attacked by acids. Around 5000 years ago, humans first began mining and incorporating tin with copper to create bronze…