Waste management

expiration. Bay Area’s Imperfect Produce will send you a box of produce for cheaper than the stores. Although it will look a little unperfect, it is all good food that would have gone to waste. Many stores also have discounts on imperfect produce or give it away for free to kids. So, if you want to help reduce food waste take the simple step and buy imperfect produce or even subscribe to a local company that will send it to you.…

Although smoking rates have declined, cigarettes are the most littered item in the world today with over 4.5 trillion cigarettes littered worldwide each year making up almost 40% of litter (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015). Dropping cigarette butts and cigar tips to the ground, putting them in garden beds, and disposing of them in waterways is littering. The belief amongst some smokers that cigarettes are biodegradable is incorrect, most filters in cigarettes (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015) contain toxic…

Microplastic pollution in the Great Lakes is a fairly new environmental issue, but it is growing rapidly and requires our attention in order to minimize and ultimately stop it. Microplastics are plastic particles in smaller size scales, usually particles less than 5 millimeters in diameter (Eerkes-Medrano et al. 2015). Recent research has documented microplastics in ocean habitats worldwide and specifically in the Laurentian Great Lakes and studies have found that microplastics interact with…

Do you like to breathe? Obviously otherwise, you would die. Do you know we, human beings, are eliminating that main factors in our lives? We are doing this on our own because of we are lazy enough to grab a plastic pot and throw it into a recycling bin or not even have one. We prefer to throw garbage into the closest trash can or not even throw it into a bin but in the streets. Do you think recycling is important? I do, if you do we are okay, but if you don't I will explain why. Have you…

Out of sight out of mind is a perfect way to describe why people pollute this mentality is exemplified even more when it comes to the ocean as we can only see a tiny percent of it.Even though fighting pollution won’t be good for the economy , people should stop or reduce pollution as much as possible because it will destroy the fishing market and the ocean as a whole. One of the most noticeable forms of ocean pollution are oil spills.An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon…

The United States produces 254 million lbs of trash every year*. 1.4 million lbs of litter get dumped into the ocean yearly which amounts to the conservative estimate of 300 million lbs of litter in the ocean total**. Despite all the advertising and general knowledge that litter is bad, we still throw some of our trash on the ground as we walk by because "the trash cans are too far away" or "it's just a wrapper." It's hard to understand that our seemingly small decisions have a huge…

From the few beach trips in the past 17 years, seeing garbage ruined the relaxation. Thinking thoughts of how people could possibly litter by the shore or all the sewage being dumped into the ocean. These problems date back to the Industrial Evolution for more technology was being created to speed up and increase production. The first negative pollution was the smog created from burning coal in the 18th and 19th century. Just like air pollution, our water has been faced with a similar issue.…

Littering By:Taeshaun Evans Littering is a terrible thing. Imagine all the things that gets littered everyday. That’s about the size of Mt. Everrest. People who litter should be ashamed. There are so many wildlife problems littering causes. I would like to take the time and tell you a few problems it causes. I will also tell you some possible answers to the problem. Why do people litter? No one really knows why people litter. Mainly people litter because they have different…

In some places of the world (at one point or another) had so much litter and pollution that when you walked outside it was constantly dark, so you wouldn’t know whether is was morning or evening! Together, we need to change the way that people think of littering (especially plastic and you will find out why). In fact, if people would simply just stop littering, our world would be remarkably different; it could potentially be so different you might no recognize it! Our ecosystem today is…

during the holidays, the problem of food waste is a whole lot bigger than what to do with week-old turkey. According to statement by the EPA and Department of Agriculture, “Food loss and waste in the United States accounts for approximately 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the overall food supply available to retailers and consumers and has far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change.”…