Marine pollution

Plastic waste pollution has dangerous effects on the environment, the main areas of concern are the effects on land, corruption of groundwater, loss of animal life, greenhouse admissions and the effects on the human population (Kukreja, 2016). Approximately Fifty percent…

The Earth from Green to Grey Something I think about often is what are we doing to stop pollution on this planet and is it enough. Most of the time my answer is that society is not doing enough to stop or prevent pollution. The next thing I think of is what are some of the factors causing pollution in our world. Some of the reason I believe the earth is so polluted is because we are a very wasteful society, we heavily depended on unclean energy, and lastly we are using products that are…

animals.The oil has killed birds,rare fish,and fish that people commerical fish for that we eat.There is just about 82,000 birds of 102 species are being harmed from that nasty thing we call oil.Also,it's not only birds,fish,and turtles it’s 2,900 marine animals and that includes most of the cute animals we sea on the beach. Oil rigs in the…

Scrapping and pollution. Despite shipbreaking being a profitable industry there are a number of environmental and human health hazards. A brief review in numbers shows that scrapped ships have an unlabeled weight of between 5,000 and 40,000 tons, 95% of which is steel, coated with between 10 and 100 tons of paint containing lead, cadmium, organotins, arsenic, zinc and chromium. Ships also contain a wide range of other hazardous wastes, sealants containing PCBs, up to 7.5 tons of various types…

Introduction Thank you and good morning Madame speaker, The Federal government should have specific powers under the Australian constitution to legislate for the environment. This is necessary to achieve environmental protection whilst improving the environmental performance. The evolution of environmental laws has corresponded with refining of the collective environmental concerns and values. Previously in the past, the way the law has protected the environment was completely evident. The…

know any better, so they keep eating the microplastics. The microplastics add up over time and eventually kill them. Not many chicks make it to adulthood because of the pollution. Water pollution is not only affecting birds. About 3.5 million pieces of new plastic enter the world's ocean daily, which increases the danger to marine life. Plastics such as plastic bags can be mistaken as jellyfish which loggerhead sea turtles love. Microplastics can block the sunlight from reaching plankton and…

approximately 1.4 billion pounds of waste and trash, in our oceans. Somers Point has been a great place for tourist to stop by, because of the route to water, and it’s certified water quality and condition. But, in the recent years, our percentage for water pollution has increased from 14% to 21%. The Clean Marina Initiative is an effective way to help stop this problem. Many people may argue that joining this type of program won’t make enough of a difference, however, this program will provide…

Finding articles about this was a pretty easy task, each article has different parts that can be informative for our project. Soil Pollution: This article was really beneficial for our group and our project in several different ways. It gives us several different ways that the soil can be polluted. For example, there is agricultural pollution, use of pesticides, leakage from sanitary systems, and other sources. With the knowledge from this article we have a better understanding of the…

When people are asked to think about the environment, many different ideas come about. For Garrett Hardin, it was the idea of the tragedy of the commons that was most concerning to him. He wrote an essay about the exploitation of a resource used by many people. In a short-term aspect, this is beneficial for the developer, but over time the resource is damaged beyond repair (Hardin). He explained the damage to resources as a result of greed. The tragedy of the commons was conveyed in Dr. Seuss’…

this issue but, we decided to go for a simple, yet helpful solution for our community of West Chicago. In 2010, Americans produced about 250 million tons of garbage and only 34 percent was recycled. According to an Opposing Views article called “Pollution”, on average each person accumulates at least 4.5 pounds…