Waste management

There is an amount of a plastic waste that is the size of this rooms that is being thrown in the ocean every minute of every hour of every day. I chose this topic because of the scale of this problem and the speed this problem is growing with. It is a global problem that affects the ocean plants & creatures that live there. So I’ve made a research to tell you about this issue. (Weule) Besides the significant damage it cause to the environment and fauna it affects us directly as well. Today…

We are two eighth grade students at Incline Middle School and we are writing to you about the trash epidemic in the ocean. There are many different types of debris in the ocean including cigarettes, bags, caps/lids, food containers, cups, plates, utensils and many other types of debris. This can be caused by poorly managed landfill sites, sewer overflows, manufacturing sites, illegal dumping on domestic and industrial trash, and street litter. The great pacific garbage patch is not the only…

Water pollution is bad and the pollution is mostly made by humans because of prior to industrialization, water pollution was usually caused by contamination from animal and human waste, leading to outbreaks of cholera and other waterborne diseases. Before the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, humans produced relatively small amounts of refined metals and organic materials. The production of various alloys of copper, tin, lead, and zinc by heating the mineral ores or by using…

I picked the Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch from all other options because I use products made of plastic daily and I wanted to learn something new. From the documentary title, I knew I would learn something new because I never heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and I did not know what to expect. One of the main ideas that I took away from the documentary was the fact that plastic is virtually impossible to destroy. In the documentary, it illustrated how the beaches…

landfills that goes to waste also contributes partially to the production of greenhouse gasses. Some food is wasted for the sole reason that it does not meet the supermarket’s appearance requirements for food to look a certain way and be of a certain size. Farmers and businesses, selling and buying food, should establish a diverse system to gain more control for a healthier environment and better widespread economic wealth. Avoidable food waste is characterized…

utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water" (Earle). Oceans are the cornerstones of life and by polluting the water by humans’ wastes with toxic chemicals, it would return badly on the humans’ lives and the earth. Furthermore, there are lots of sources polluting the oceans such as, plastic, oil spill,…

The Earth from Green to Grey Something I think about often is what are we doing to stop pollution on this planet and is it enough. Most of the time my answer is that society is not doing enough to stop or prevent pollution. The next thing I think of is what are some of the factors causing pollution in our world. Some of the reason I believe the earth is so polluted is because we are a very wasteful society, we heavily depended on unclean energy, and lastly we are using products that are…

well as plant and animals. Threats to the environment come from two sources, pollution and resource depletion. Pollutions can be refers as the undesirable and unintended contamination of the environment by human activities, such as manufacturing, waste disposal, burning fossil, etc. Resources depletion refers to the consumption of finite or scarce. On the other hand, resources depletion refers to the consumption of finite or scarce resources. In a certain sense, pollution is really a type of…

I had many powerful experiences during our field study trip to Cape Cod. It was a wonderful experience, and I learned so much in those five days. However, there were a few salient experiences I had that stood out among the others. These three moments combined cumulated into an overall experience that had a significant and lasting impact on my future thesis goals. The first salient moment occurred during the second day of the trip. We had just spent the entire day walking in the sand and the sun…

Each year, littering causes 1 million birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 4,600 sea turtles to die. Guess who makes that happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million…