The Waste Land

Over the years, our world has become filled with so much trash. Not only has the land become filled with trash, but the oceans and bodies of water around us have become more polluted with trash. What people do not understand is, it is not very hard to pick up a piece of paper, or a plastic bottle that is lying around them. Our country’s citizens have become too lazy to care about what our country looks like. These pieces of garbage are not only making our country’s environment look bad, but is…

In Iona Creek Reserve, weeds were located around the grassy area. This is a major issue, not just because weeds are an invasive and fast growing species, but also because there are endangered plants located on the site. The Blue Gum High Forest is the main endangered species on the site. This forest sheltered the Sydney region before European settlement, and is now limited to small bushland along a small range of suburbs in Sydney. The Blue Gum Forest is one of six main indigenous communities of…

been looked down upon due to its relation to Cannabis in it’s habitual use, but it has many benefits to the plastic industry. We should use hemp in the production of plastic. Hemp is renewable source - unlike crude oil - it’s biodegradable - reducing land and sea pollution, requires no new machinery to manufacture and is 4 times more CO2 the air during its growth period. Hemp, when in plastic form, is still completely biodegradable. When plastic is dumped into landfills, it leeches a toxin…

My topic is littering. How does it make the world a worse place. And one of them is littering. I am going to tell you why is littering is bad and how it makes earth worse than what it was. Littering is bad because it makes an area look ugly, it is expensive, and sometimes hard to clean, and harmful to people, plants, and animals, it is also bad because it is illegal, people who litter can be fined or charged, littering also causes plotted water, and it can clog storm drains. And…

In this modern world, plastic be the most used material for packaging in almost every industry. The word ‘plastic’ comes from the Greek plastikos which means easily shaped (Robertson, 2013). Plastic is the combination of many molecules that linked together as one long chain which made from polymers: poly (Greek) means many and meros (Greek) means part (Robertson, 2013). Raw materials of plastic are called feedstock which come from natural and synthetic resources, such as crude oil, natural gas,…

be seen all over the globe. This idea is based on the recurring act of pollution being done on the earth, and the effects of pollution on the environment and the biotic factors on earth. We can see an example of this when factories let their excess waste out into the environment. For example, in New Delhi a reporter “talks about how the air pollution [was] so bad [the] United Airlines had to cancel flights…, factories had to be shut down [,] and schools had to close” because of the thick smog…

Garbology Reading Log 5 In chapter 5 of Garbology Humes discusses the amount of garbage that is in the ocean. Out of all the trash found in the ocean the majority of it is pieces of plastic. Mary Crowley is an environmental activist and the captain of the ship Kaisei, which means ocean planet. Crowley is also one of the founders of Project Kaisei. This foundation working to find out how much trash is actually in the ocean, how that is effecting the marine life, and how to reduce the amount…

frequently addressed and most dangerous to human health that the world has only just started to try and slow. The causes of these dangerous forms of pollution are simple and include various forms of land, water, and air pollution plus the pollutants. However the focus will be narrowed to dumping of waste in waters, industrial processes and their emissions, and the social or individual burning of…

reduce the quantities of solid waste deposited in landfills, which have become increasingly expensive. Recycling also reduces the pollution of air, water, and land resulting from waste disposal” (Recycling, 2014, para.1). Recycling will not stop littering everywhere, but it will make things better than they are now. We have to do something about the litter just laying around or it is just going to get worse, take a look at Talking Trash resources, “The solid waste disposal industry has grown to…

map). Additional oil residue was sited further down the creek which was surrounding two pipes that connected to the back of a local residents. The reasons for these pipes are unknown but sceptically thinking, the local residents are either putting waste product from their house to the creek or are taking the creek water for personal use. This chemical water pollution has affected the quality of the Wynnum creek because……; which essentially will later affect Moreton Bay and its wildlife and…