Waste-to-energy

that can replace polluting technologies. Weeks uses alternative ways to effectively break down harmful chemicals, methods to break down endocrine disrupters and other chemicals in the environment, and techniques to prevent immense usage of water and energy to enhance the logic and persuasiveness of her argument. Chemicals have been used for thousands of years for different purposes. The most common example is fire. Trial and error had massive impacts on the creation of chemicals. Mixing…

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…

efficient with our food waste is a big issue in America. Many tons and pounds of food are wasted every day, these food that are being thrown out are not being disposed effectively. Each time a piece of food is thrown in the trash as well as resources in that food that could be used better making more food. Most don’t realize what they are throwing away when they don’t feel like finishing their meal. Food waste in America is one the largest contributors in landfills. The food waste that ends up…

eventually do. Plastic bags cost about 3.5 cents each, but the cost to clean them up is about 17 cents per bag on average. Tax payers end up paying about 88 dollars per year just on plastic bag waste (10 reasons why plastic bags should be banned,2017,October 26). In an effort to help reduce the amount of waste and pollution by plastic bags some countries have banned plastic bag to help lower the risk of pollution. Africa has banned plastic bags or taxed them in…

thrown away and left to rot and increases our landfill.Solid waste material that ends up in landfills causes air pollution in the form of methane gas emissions. We can Convert to helps our landfills, but it…

Plastic wastes are wastes of human activities that deliberately or accidentally finish into rivers and other water bodies or streams. These wastes finally reach the sea and other water bodies where aquatic life. With the increased use of plastic, the respective waste management has become a problem, since many types of plastic (unlike other wastes such as wood) are not biodegradable and, therefore, accumulate. Plastic dragged through the water is dangerous, because it represents a serious…

thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; less than a third is taken up by land. However, the surface of the ocean is polluted. The book Oceans a Visual Guide defined pollution as “The introduction of substance, material or unwanted heat energy from human activities that adversely affect an ecosystem” (Hutchinson and Hawkins 210). Sylvia Earle, an American marine biologist, explore, and author has a Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy, mentioned that some people don’t know or…

Oil Sands Industries of Alberta and other locations in the world face today. Tailing Ponds can be described as large “dump holes” in which the industry exposes of all the waste materials obtained from the refinement of Bitumen - a raw material which can be processed into oil. Tailing Ponds include many different types of waste materials such as water, fine silts, residual bitumen, salts and soluble organic compounds. They also include solvents that are added to the oil sands during the…

The Tobacco industry has an effect on our planet more than many people seem to realize. It is estimated that over 1.7 billion pounds of cigarette filters are discarded into our lakes, beaches and oceans each year. With all of this waste being dumped into our natural environment, there are obviously going to be several effects on wildlife, and the natural eco system. Cigarette filters release the chemicals contained inside them within an half hour, to an hour of coming in contact with water.…

"Lead author Jenna R. Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, and her colleagues estimated that, altogether, these 192 countries produce some 275 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Of that volume, about 4.8-12.7 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste is thought to have entered the ocean in 2010" (Tibbetts). Not enough people know the amount of plastic that enters the ocean each year and how dangerous it actually is. "In 2012 the United States…