Recycling

The main advantages of the NEMI symbol assessment method are the simplicity of the assessment and reading the score, one fast look at the pictogram will be enough to have a general information about the environmental impact of a procedure. However, the drawbacks of this method are non-consideration of the amount of chemicals used in the analysis and the waste generated (qualitative rather than quantitative analysis) and the obtained information is general. In addition, the search of each…

Cigarette receptacles are a required and compulsory feature in all public areas, workplaces as well as in some households too in order to keep the surroundings of the work area or the home neat and well-kept and maintained. Smoldering or smoking will involve with himself buffs, lighters, smoked ones, wrapping and all this will unconditionally contribute towards litter at one point in time or the other. Therefore it converts energetic to have a cigarette receptacle at such a place where you think…

welding Welding the process to make, unite or fuse two or more pieces of metal as one. Welding uses electrons to heat metal to its boiling point in which it cools and bonds. Welding has been around since the egyptians they used it to make their tools to make the famous pyramids. In 1800 sir humphrey davy made a tool that was battery operated that was made just for welding. Today sir humphreys tool has been modified and made into as we know today as the arc welder. Welding is more of an art…

Have you ever asked yourself, “how would the world react we were gone?” or “What if individuals no longer walked on the earth that we have impacted so much? What impact would we leave behind?” Although Alan Weisman admits that it is very unlikely that our species disappear”, he still talks about these questions in the book The World Without Us in order for us to more closely recognize our environmental impacts on earth. Weisman starts his book off with humans having vanished unexpectedly and…

The two sides of the never ending battle between the pros and cons of bottled water and tap water takes a new victim with every statistic, but the fact of the matter is tap water takes the metaphorical cake in every instance. Not only does the regulation of tap water help the economy by making state sponsored jobs,and costing considerably less, but tap water is also better for the environment with no plastic bottles rotting away in landfills. The constant regulation of tap water also makes it…

Did you know the average home in Austin can collect 900 gallons of water during a 1 inch rain? Yes, that’s right. 900 gallons! Austin sees on average 32 inches of rainfall each year. That means you could collect 28,800 gallons of water throughout the year! That not only saves you money on water bills, but it also helps to preserve this natural resource. Talk about a win-win. Why should you collect rainwater? There are 3 clear benefits to collecting rainwater aside from helping your pocket book…

In Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, written in 2012, Edward Humes, a Pulitzer prize and PEN award winning journalist and author in California, educates his readers on the economic, social, and environmental issues revolving around the waste. Humes begins his novel by describing landfills and the struggles many face with maintaining them due to incorrect sealing, being uneducated in waste management, and making excuses. Humes determines that the only way to “fix” our mess is to change…

When creating a sustainable solutions vision, we need to keep in mind that the visioning has to be sustainable, coherent, tangible, plausible, motivational and capable of achieving a good complexity-capacity balance. a) Sustainable vision – My vision is to BAN Fracking all together. Fracking contaminates underground water and also quite significantly contributes to global warming. In order for these potential dangers to be mitigated, fracking must be banned. It might sound radical but no…

Have you recently moved into a home with a septic tank? Are you used to having a home that's hooked up to the city sewer system? While a septic tank can be a perfectly safe and sanitary way of getting rid of your gray water, it's not quite the same as a city sewer line. It's important to know about potential hazards so that you can take steps to avoid them in the future. Here are a few potential issues with septic tanks and some things you can do to help minimize the risk: Failing cover: Many…

When we walked in to the union there are different varieties of smells all around me. People are sitting down talking and eating you also see lines to the left and right. When I took look over at the empty space where Chick Fil A was I see KoFusion. At that point I want to just take off running to KoFusion like I was a little kid at Disney world. As Soon I walked up to the restaurant there was a long line, that happy feeling that I had went away fast very fast. Five minute passed now it my turn…