Waste management

Littering is a potential danger to animals because it can cause them to die, eventually becomeing endangered, and even extinct. In thean article, “5 Ways Plastic Pollution Impacts Animals on Land” by Malorie Macklin, she states quotes that approximately, 101 million animals die each year because of litter and other pollutants. Litter consists of trash that can crucially affect our environment. Whether small or large, trash can have dramatic effects to our environment and animals that people need…

What takes up parts of the Earth’s land, pollutes the air, and diminishes resources, time, and money? It may be shocking, but food waste is the answer. No one would think that throwing a few fries and the last bite of a burger away would be a big deal, but when you think of everyone who throws away their leftovers, it adds up. All of the food waste has to go somewhere. It doesn’t just disappear or stay in the garbage truck forever. Everyday people all over the U.S. throw out their food, whether…

Councils of Control Street sweepers like trash collectors are recognized as some of the lowest levels of work a person could pick. By being a street sweeper, one does the same routine activity every day, eliminating the opportunity for the mind to wonder. Society today labels trash collectors and other careers such as this as being career choices that people who have no where to go or have limited education would choose. In society today, these jobs pay well, but the brain is not stretched…

A home's "curb value" is the value that it's exterior adds to its overall market price. Fixing up your old windows is often considered one of the 10 best ways to improve your home value. The following process will immediately improve the look of your windows and boost your curb value while remaining relatively environmentally-friendly. Clean the Glass With Newspaper and Vinegar Once you've removed all the scratches from your glass, you can move on to cleaning it. One of the greenest ways is…

Plastic is a new foundation for human life: food comes packaged in plastic, sports are played on grass made out of plastic, supplies are wrapped in plastic, and accessories are encased in plastic. Plastic also has a way of getting into trees, bushes, oceans, animals, and makes the environment look awful. As of watching our backyards and oceans get filled with plastic bags, we have realized the trouble plastic causes for the environment. San Francisco, California, Laredo, and Eagle Pass have…

Angeles specifically, the sustainability of ocean waters are being contaminated by the toxicity of waste being dumped by consumers. Under the circumstances, what can we do to stop toxic wastes being dumped in the sea? Problem Not a lot of consumers identify that toxic wastes incorporates supplemental wastage of dredged material, sewage waste, oil waste, and radioactive waste, undoubtedly each waste…

Green Gloves Food Recovery and Donation Program Last year, Food Shift in partnership with Oakland Unified School District started a project in order to reduce food waste in Oakland. The project lasted about 12 months. The decision started based on the statistics from 2002 USDA report that school cafeterias waste food, and that waste sums to around $600 million each year. Kelly ErnstFriedman was the director of this project and kindly explained the pilot project May 2013 – June 2014. The area…

Over the last decades we've witnessed many problems going on with our environment. We've seen many animals going extinct because of humans. We've seen new viruses being spread out because of bacteria. This is all caused from something we do all the time, which is littering. Littering causes many problems in our community because it's a big problem for humans and animals. Littering is the cause of why 700 Marine animal species are being threatened to go extinct. I will like to solve this problem…

A problem in our community is littering. It’s a problem because people don’t care about our community and thinks it’s alright to litter. People in our community litter because they’ll be driving down the road and don’t want to put it in their car so they will just throw it out the window. When they could just put it on their back floor if they have a car or in the bed of their truck if they have a truck. Most people think it’s alright to litter because they don’t think it harms…

People have been throwing junk into the water and it’s been polluting the ocean and affecting the animals. There are two types of ocean pollution. There is point source pollution, its pollution that comes from a specific site. An Non-point source is pollution that comes from many sources. The ocean becomes polluted because people dump trash in many places like bandages, vitals of blood and syringes. Ocean Pollution affects many animals, for example the birds and fish. The birds think that…