Industrial waste

volleyball and we happened to have an away tournament this past weekend. I kept all my snack bar wrappers and realized that that made up a significant amount of my trash, proving to me that different lifestyles consume and then produce different amounts of waste.…

at this very moment. That black sludge in our oceans is oil that’s been spilled while it was trying to be extracted. Those deadly toxins in the air that we breathe come from fumes from power plants.That lethal water has been contaminated from the waste and spills from the toxic nuclear power plants that are all over the earth. All of this is the result of us needing energy. We drill into the ocean floor to get oil so we can drive our cars, we burn coal in power plants so…

Every day, the average person produces about 2kg of waste, and nearly 70% of waste found in rubbish bins can be recycled. You can help lower this percentage by simply reusing plastic bags or not using plastic bags at all, recycling your aluminium cans, composting your food waste…There are thousands of simple - and affordable - possibilities for recycling. Imagine just how much better it would be for the environment…

Submarine waste can range in many different aspects. Cardboard can be stored on board due to less weight; as for cans, they have to be added to the waste streams of the submarine. The combined compacted volume of food contaminated plastic and paper is less than 0.01 ft^3, which means this waste can be stored under the Annex V because of the eliminated storage. Submarines prefer to keep storage in food storage due to precautions to bypass contamination of unused supplies, which is needed for the…

Many people know that trash is a big problem on planet Earth. Trash has become a problem in outer space too. Tons of “space junk”are in orbit around the planet. There are more than 22,000 pieces of junk in space around the earth according to BBC news. And these are just the items that we can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes or radars. There are also millions of smaller pieces of junk that we can’t see. Bits of old space rockets or satellites move around the planet at very high…

Littering is a big problem in the world, so big that 3.8 billion pounds of trash end up in the ocean every year. Littering is illegal, but the punishments don’t stop people from dropping that piece of trash instead of walking it over to the trash can. Littering happens everywhere, even in our national parks, polluting the air all over the world, and humans are the main factor. National parks are used for conservation and protecting land and animals, but they are slowly turning into landfills.…

The film Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a documentary directed by Angela Sun and was released on April 22, 2014. This film dives into the desolate "island" known as the great pacific garbage patch which is actually not an island despite what people think. This "island" actually lies underneath the water's surface, which leads to it being unnoticed by the public. Plastic is the main cause of this issue and not only litters the oceans, but it is also harming the marine life.…

Food waste is one of the biggest problems that affect the environment and wastes precious resources in Australia faces that needs to stop. Imagine in the future where water is sparse and the land has been tortured and reduced to a place where there is an abundance of waste. This will be our future if we don't take action now against food wastage. Currently in Australia and the world, food waste is an extreme problem. As a nation, we must take action otherwise food waste will cause more…

exemplified by the sheer magnitude of production, as well as by the difficulty in determining the origins of plastic waste. The magnitude of plastic production is shown through the increase of global plastic resin production by 620% from 1975 to 2012 (Jambeck et al. 2015). Furthermore, in 58% of countries with available data, it was found that at least ten per cent of solid waste material was comprised of plastic pollution (Jambeck et al. 2015).…

is important to address due to substantial implications to the economy, Earth, and ultimately every person living in the United States. First, trends in food waste and availability and changing solutions worldwide can be explored through a historical perspective. The Institute of Waste Management’s Felicitas Schneider, with expertise in waste logistics and prevention, discusses this in her article “The History of Food Wastage.” According to the source,some preservation techniques were developed…