This is a tricky issue because this does not have a specific guilty like the city or an industry because the population, which includes everyone who lives in Toronto, is guilty for this phenomenon. In fact, the citizens cause and the citizens suffer the consequences. Citizens have been using some technologies like laundries for many years, and most of them do not know the impacts for the environment of using that. The laundries spend 3 gallons of water for each pound, on average, and the most part is used for heating. Moreover, a person cleans his or her clothes at least once a week; as a result, Toronto, the biggest city on Canada, affects significantly the environment. The ChemTrac annually reports have shown the effects of this. I found, …show more content…
This chemical, tetrachloroethylene, is a great solvent for organic materials and very used in dry machines, but it is classified as a carcinogen; likewise, it can be used to degrease metal in the industry of automobile and metallurgy. Therefore, the amount of this liquid found in the research can be partially originated from these industries. Furthermore, the report is from the opinion of the population; in other words, the data depends on the truthfulness of the people who fill out a form provided by the ChemTrac. Even though the website provides essential information, some people could be lose in the steps which are four, or even provide wrong or just superficial information. Toronto Public Health affirms that they do not have correct information to count the cancer contribution which is the biggest contribution of the tetrachloroethylene from dry machines; indeed, in this report they interpreted that the dry machines caused this kind of issue considering the amount of cadmium and tetrachloroethylene found in the study. They also proposed about the creation of a specific by-law for this kind of issue which will be one of the solutions to solve this
The purpose of this essay is to deal with the fact that chemical warfare should be brought back to modern warfare strategies. As Warren Rudman said, “And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.” Rudman’s words are true in what they say and that we should do everything to counter-act his statement. Biological weapons are a key to outstanding success in war and therefore, I strongly suggest that chemical warfare is an effective and producible weapon tactic that can be used on today’s battlefield.
Two case-control 4,5, two nested case-control2,6 and two cohort1,7 studies reported estimates for the association between Tetrachloroethylene (TCE) exposure and primary liver cancer. A non-significant association was found between occupational solvent exposure and primary liver cancer among one case-control study, while the other observed a significant association. Hemberg et al. found the odds ratio (OR) for heavy/moderate exposure compared with little/no exposure was 2.3 (95% CI: 0.8, 7.0). The association was confined to women (exact Fisher’s chi-square p=0.007) with the men having a non-significant odds ratio of 0.5. Stemhagen et al. found that among men, the OR for working laundry or dry cleaning compared to not working in that occupation was 2.50 (95% CI: 1.02,...
The main theme of the book is that we expose ourselves to dangerous chemicals from using common household products for cleaning and hygienic products. However, the real danger of using these chemicals is that most of our society doesn’t know the potential health effects and outcomes one is facing. Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviors. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially can affect our health.(World Health Organization). The theme of the book is relevant to environmental health because the authors are assessing their exposure to these dangerous chemicals that are found in the products that we use to continue with our daily lives. They publish their results and find that phthalates, PFOA and PCBs are both dangerous to human health and the environment.
Residents in Canada should attempt to reduce water usage. After water is stored, piped, measured, calibrated, purified and delivered, we then proceed to flush 40% of it down the drain according to L. Pollack. All of these steps use energy, which contributes to global warming, further leading to evaporation. One way is to increase the use of rain barrels to water lawns and gardens.
They try to prove that the emission of chemicals from the Shell company are actually hazardous and are released at unsafe concentrations. With respect to the Ecological Model of health, the focus here is the relationship between the citizens and their environment, so any change in the environment can affect the health of citizens (Drummer. 2008). Another focus is the location relative to the Shell company that is an issue. The residents of this town are faced with health problems due to the location of the Shell company, which enforces that Health Geography is a big influence here (Drummer. 2003). Citizens within the Diamond community report increasing rates of asthma in children, along with machines in their house to help prevent/cope with allergies. The location plays a major role as to why these negative health effects are occurring since the chemical plant is emitting these chemicals nearby. When the air was tested, multiple chemicals were found but one that stood out was Benzene which is known to have cancer causing effects (WHO. 2018). Even with this knowledge, the Shell company continued to claim that the living conditions within this city were adequate (Grunberg.
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...ls and many more that chemically produce. Reducing or control the amount of the usage should be the best way to reduce the cancer risk. Nowadays, the usage of stainless steel, glass or BPA-free containers become more popular because it will reduce exposure the chemical in plastic to leach into water thus reduce the risk of cancer. These are some of the precaution and prevention recommended to society to apply in our daily life in order to reduce the risk of cancer.
As of January 1, 2003, the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario started to ship one hundred percent of its garbage into the landfills of Michigan. In 2003, Toronto exported garbage at a rate of 7.2 tons per minute. Garbage trucks from Toronto run seven days a week twenty-four hours a day, so at the rate of 7.2 tons per minute it works out to be that Michigan imports 10,368 tons of Toronto's garbage per day. But it wasn't always like this, Governor John Engler and his administration turned garbage into a growth industry. The state lowered the liability standards for landfill owners and also provided tax-free financing for new facilities. The result of these changes lead to too many landfills and not enough garbage to fill them. So the landfill owners lowered their prices and searched even harder for garbage. Today, Michigan's private landfills charge ten to fifteen dollars per ton to dump while other landfill owners in neighboring states charge twenty five to fifty dollars per ton. Toronto did the math and realized that it is cheaper to haul its garbage 300 miles and dump it in Michigan then it is to dump it close to home. And on top of that, Michigan has eliminated funds fo...
Carcinogenic was brought up in the China study on the exposure of too much can cause cancer. In the food chain in America in quite a bit of product, process meats
Chloromethane, more commonly referred to as methyl chloride, is an organic compound categorized as a haloalkane functional group. Functional groups are atoms that control how the molecule will react with other molecues. Haloalkane functional groups consist of a carbon atom with four single bonds and one of the bonds in occupied by an element in the Halogen family; in this case chlorine. The structural formula is CH3Cl. This formula effects some of the physical properties which include the boiling point to be -22.22°C and the melting point to be -97.7°C. Other physical properties consist of a faint sweet smell, colorless gas, and it is soluble in water.
Epidemiologists had identified many important causes of cancer by the early of 1980s. Many types of cancer vary in incidence by more than an order of magnitude between different populations and every type is rare in some part of the world. Many specific causes cancer are now known, the most common are by smoking, obesity and a few oncogenic viruses, but a large proportion of global variation for common cancers such as breast, prostate, colon and rectum remains unexplained (Peto J. , 2001). According to Richard Doll and Richard Peto, pollution accounts for 2% of all cancer cases and geophysical factors account for another 3% while 80% to 90% of cancers are caused by “environmental factors”. Environmental factors are the non-genetic factors which are smoking, diet, occupational exposure to chemicals and geophysical factors (naturally occurring radiation, man-made radiation, medical drugs and radiation and pollution.
My article is based on the harmful effects of Trichloroethylene. My discussion is extrapolated from the article Mechanisms of Toxicant-Induced Acute Kidney Injury. The article closely examines how the functions of the kidney are usually impaired by this toxin. This due to the injurious effects it has on the kidney. Trichloroethylene together with its metabolites, are toxic to the kidneys since they trigger development of tumours in the kidneys which leads to the development of kidney Cancer (Kacew & Lee 2013). Studies have been conducted on animals as well as on human beings on the effect
CHEMICHALS: Scientist have defined hundreds of chemicals that can cause cancer in animals. These chemicals are also a cancer hazard for human beings if they become widespread in food supply, the general environment, or the living and working environment. In most cases, a chemical carcinogen enters the food supply as a food addi...
in major cities where the are a lot of cars, it cause pollution to be everywhere in that city.
Further, “In 2008, nearly 13 tonnes of waste were generated by Canadian households. Of this, more than 8.5 million tonnes were disposed of in landfills or incine...