Hello, I’m Dan, and Today I’ll will be discussing about the thing that thing we all use everyday, not are phones, are Toilet Paper. Toilet paper has affected me on a personal level, and still does every day. My Story of toilet paper takes place everyday on the “oval office”. It is almost unimaginable to think how life would be without toilet paper. First before we begin you probably thinking why toilet paper, because I thought that a person should at least know something about this useful resource, and I also stole the idea from my friend Devon. So Let's begin. Toilet Paper is one of the most important resources today. But it isn’t something you just wood you cut from a tree, and you magically have toilet paper, well kinda. Toilet paper is made from more than just paper, and has …show more content…
The bark then is made into wood chips, which are then “cooked” in chemicals, which takes the moisture out of the wood and makes it more biodegradable. After 3 hours, the cured wood chips are cleaned, then sent to be bleached, so that the paper does not turn yellow over time and helps to disinfect the wood, the wood chips at this point become a fiber. The fibers are mixed with water to produce a paper stock, which then goes through a cylinder dryer that presses and dries the paper stock. The paper is creped, which is a process that makes the paper soft. After this the toilet paper is winded around a cylinder, then rewinded around a long cardboard tube, which is then cut into the toilet paper rolls we know and love. Toilet paper isn’t made in just one place, they are made in factories across the world. Toilet paper is very environmentally friendly after the production of the product, but producing the toilet paper faces two major problems: Deforestation and use of bleach in a hygienic product. The production doesn’t require any burning of resources, and the chemicals use to cure the toilet paper, can be reused almost
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My Sustainability Assessment will address the effects of the using Tampons ecologically, socially, and economically. According to the new book Flow: The Cultural History of Menstruation, an average woman will dispose of 250 to 300 pounds of tampons in 38 years. (Kim & Stein, 2009) Tampons are undeniably important in a female's life. It is affordable and convenient to use. Tampons are also readily available in every groceries and convenient store. I am relatively new in using tampons, as I usually use menstrual pads. However, most of my friends use them because they can carry them discretely. They can also move freely without worrying about the blood leakage. Although, the question is: What's wrong with Tampons? Most of the tampons end up in landfills which takes a long time to decompose. (Bridle & Kirkpatrick, 2004, p. 24) These will hugely impact the environment, as well as the people around them. Regular tampons contain chemicals that can harm the sensitive
Whether you believe it or not, the little things that we do day by day are affecting the world
Cotton is not only used in clothes, towels, and jeans, but is used in fishing nets, tents, coffee filters, paper, socks, and it is used as filling for car seats, pillows, and furniture. In essence, I wear cotton and unintentionally I see it and use it habitually. Often times, I am unaware of its prominence in my life, but hence it truly is the “fabric of our lives”.
George Whitesides presentation is focused on how, in a world dominated by money, you can mass produce some type of way to test for diseases in poor areas of the world without sending in a doctor or having a lab. Well his solution was a small urine test, about the size of a postage stamp. These tests are small, lightweight, made of paper and carpet tape and cost close to nothing to produce. The paper wicks bodily fluids, urine for example, and the paper changes color to provide diagnostic information, such as showing how much glucose or protein is present. His goal is to distribute these simple paper diagnostic systems to developing countries, where people with basic training can administer tests and send results to distant doctors with a cellphone. (http://www.ted.com/speakers/george_whitesides.html)
(Jane McConnell, 1998, " The Joy of Cloth Diapers") It takes about 82,000 tons of plastic and a quarter million trees to manufacture the disposable diapers that cover the bottoms of 90% of the babies born in the U.S. each year.
Our target is also to be environmentally friendly due to which we are reutilizing the waste materials for the wrapping our product.
Do you hate seeing litter on the streets, or seeing and smelling heaps of garbage sitting, and rotting away? Humans recycling more will help to reduce this. We throw many things that can be recycled. Recycling glass, plastics, paper, and metals will reduce solid waste dumped into the ecosystem daily. “96 percent of U.S. plastic, and 50 percent of its paper, goes into landfills. Mexico, not exactly a bastion of environmental awareness, recycles more glass than the U.S.” (Alice Horrigan 1). That’s 96 percent of the millions of tons of plastic, which will outlive most of us in a landfill that we could recycle and keep it out of our landfill. Paper is made from trees, if we recycle it, we can decrease our rate of ugly deforestation and the destruction of animal habitats. When paper gets to the landfill, it is guaranteed to get wet. The wetness and decomposition of paper atracts mold spores, which produce an odor and are potentially bad for your health. Also k...
When most people hear the word recycling they think of plastic water bottles, milk jugs, or even old paper that they can reuse, but this is not necessarily the case anymore. Scientists and researchers have discovered a new form of recycling that is going to help better the environment and it can even help make people money! Smokers around the world do not think about recycling their used cigarette butts, but this new form of recycling has changed some of their minds on this subject. Recycling has been a major environmental issue, but most people have forgotten about it or they just do not care for it anymore. Paper recycling dates back to as far as 400 B.C. Some people even say that the early Romans recycled their bronze coins so that they
Paper is made from cellulose fibbers, which are found in all plant cell walls. When a mixture of water and fibbers is filtered through a fine screen, the fibbers tangle together to form a sheet of paper. As the wet sheet is dried chemical bonds form between the molecules in cellulose fibbers next to one and other. This gives the sheet of paper its strength. The grade and type of any paper depends on the fibbers and processes used in making it.
Abstract. Innovation is a key to many ills. India is plagued by sanitation woes backed by lack of hygiene. Paucity of space in slums prohibits construction of toilets in homes. Absence of toilets leads to open defecation and it becomes a behavioral issue and sanitation drive by Sulabh International has not been sufficient. Innovative method of defecation has to be evolved which would not only be hygienic but also cost effective, Peepoo a bio degradable toilet disposal can be a cure to many sanitation woes. It has been successful in developing countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Bangladesh. It should be tried in India to give an impetus to the swachh Bharat mission
Everyone has heard a cashier one time or another mumble, “Paper or plastic?” as he put their groceries in a bag, but do shoppers know the effects of each vessel in which they carry their comestibles? There are many issues and benefits to both paper and plastic. The making and recycling of both paper and plastic bags can harm the environment. One must also look at the costs of making each bag. The convenience of each is also something to look at. Many people jump to conclusion that paper bags are better for the environment without knowing the facts. Since plastic bags are preferred by customers and plastic bags actually do not hurt the environment as much as paper ones do, consumers should feel at ease when choosing plastic.
America seems to be experiencing a narrowing of disposal options (Griffin 1). Trash is either dumped into landfills, incinerated or burned, or recycled. Seventy percent of all solid waste ends up in landfills (Griffin 2). Each year, “240 million tires, 1.6 billion pens, 2 billion razors and blades and 16 billion disposable diapers” are dumped (Griffin 2). Five hundred disposable cups and 10,000 sheets of copy paper are used annually by the average office worker (“Waste and Recycling Facts” 1). In addition, 500,000 trees are needed every week to make two thirds of newspapers that are never recycled (Cooper 270). A twelve foot high wall going from Los Angeles to New York City could be built with office and writing paper that Americans use every year. Enough iron and steel is dumped by our country to continuously supply the whole nations auto manufacturers. Approximately 2.5 mi...
Approximately 844 million people (one tenth of the population) in the world do not have access to clean and 2.3 billion do not have access to a decent toilet. This poor sanitation and contaminated water quality is the cause of death for over 289 000 children under the age of 5 every year.