The Waste Land

Examples of unethical practice Dumping pollutants into the water supply rather than cleaning up the pollution properly. Releasing toxins into the air in levels above what is permitted by the Environmental Protection Agency. Coercing an injured worker not to report a work injury to workers' compensation by threatening him with the loss of a job or benefits. Refusing to give an employee a final paycheck for hours worked after the employee leaves the company. Not paying an employee for all of…

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…

1. Of the different kinds of ecosystem services, you learned about, discuss two that are important in your local area, village, forests and/or nation. Each year in my town, lands are laid bare due to building or running of quarries, subdivisions, roads, clean fills as well as other developments or substantial regions of land are stripped of for plantation. Without proper erosion and sediment management, these actions can lead to accelerated onsite erosion and significantly increased…

next years. Peoples waste is one of them, each year tons and tons of trash end up in landfills. This may create not only environmental but also space problems and health problems. This is especially serious in high density cities like Hong Kong were this problem has grown and needs immediate actions. Problem. - A) Municipal Waste. - One of the direct problems created by over population is municipal waste, since each people inevitably creates trash each day. Municipal waste is principally…

There were no reported direct casualties stemming from the disaster. However, there were numerous miscarriages and birth defects directly caused by the hazardous waste. Countless children were injured from burns procured from playing near chemical exposure (Beck, 1979). The Environmental Health Perspectives conducted a study to determine the mortality rates of previous Love Canal residents compared to New York mortality rates as a whole between 1979 and 1996. Their study showed no elevated…

The word Eco-Defense doesn’t have a dictionary definition but in most logical forms it could mean defending the ecosystem. Every factor in an ecosystem depends on each other, either directly or indirectly. That area consists of plants, animals, the weather, landscape and other organisms and they work together to form a bubble of life. A change in temperature will affect how plants grow, while animals depend on those plants for food and shelter. These changes will force those animals to either…

Food waste is a topic nobody really talks about. It is even possible to say that not a lot of people are even aware of these issues. Every year 1/3 of the annual food production is thrown away in the garbage just to end up in a landfill. That’s 20 lbs of food per month; that’s basically money in the garbage. Perfectly good, edible, food is being thrown out and wasted. Countries around the world have people who are dying of hunger and here we are throwing edible food away. There has to be…

Plain view pollution  WHAT WAS THE DEAL? To retain a major corporation in Plainview City buy finding out what their grievances are, and figure out a better way to address it, without mortgaging the future of the community. Also, to address the issue regarding carbon pollution that has been plaguing the city, and causing the inhabitant to be sick as a result of their exposure to the toxic pollutant.  WHO COULD NOT MAKE A DEAL? Everyone including the EPA, the city council, the president, and…

the problem of pollution on the earth is not understood by most people. 75% of Americans admitted to littering in the past year (King, 2013). The math comes out to be roughly 242,797,500 people that have thrown a piece of trash on the ground. This waste accumulates over time. The top two most common things littered are cigarette butts, and fast food packages. Smokers don’t think throwing their cigarette butt out the window or dropping it on the ground is littering, but it counts for 50% of…

Within the community of Swansea, I believe that a problematic issue in the environment is the amount of pollution present throughout Swansea Channel, and more specifically, under Swansea Bridge. To further understand the extent of this predicament and identify the main problems and potential solutions, I decided to interview various locals, figure out the most common types of pollution present, investigate how the pollution is affecting the environment, interview a dive expert and get some facts…