Pollution is a very tricky subject. Pollution is the contamination of anything by gas, chemicals, or garbage. First, most of it is very preventable. Second, you can be polluting things around you just by driving your car or throwing something out the window. Pollution causes very bad things. Animals die, our ozone layer is being poked and prodded by carbon monoxide and dioxide from our car and factories, and we litter seriously everywhere. It is honestly ironically the most preventable causes of global warming out there.
I have learned from this course that I have to pick up after myself. Recycling is when something is re-broken down and made into something else or reusing something instead of just throwing it away after one or two uses. You have to manually sort out off of the different pieces of plastic, paper, and aluminums and bring them to recycling bins found locally. Recycling also cuts down the amount of waste we have in our landfills, reducing the amount of plastic we waste and the sizes of our landfills. If I recycle and throw my trash in the garbage can instead of throwing it out my car window, I can honestly help save the world. It reduces all of the stuff that the animals eat that they shouldn’t be eating because they think its food or they play around with it because they think it’s a toy or it won’t hurt them. Animals get caught up in 6-pack rings wrapped around their throats and they suffocated because we can’t cut up our can rings or recycle very well because we are all so lazy. We don’t even realize how often or how much we harm our planet and the things that are on it by littering everywhere. One thing this course has taught me is that in my future I will be recycling and my family will be recycling because...
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Did you know that Americans alone produce 4.5 pounds of garbage a day, and more than 245 million tons of garbage every year? That is absolutely crazy. We all need to come together to recycle, carpool, and do as much as we can to stop pollution. If we don’t, our earth will becoming really ugly and probably burn to death by the atmosphere being so messed with. We won’t have an ozone layer or any other layer to protect us from the sun’s rays, and without those layers we will all burn up because the sun’s rays are so strong and hot that we can’t be exposed to them, our bodies aren’t built for it. If we all just carpooled and recycled every single day, we could save ourselves from a really, really ugly future. Please, recycle, turn off your lights at home, and carpool every once and a while.
Its harming the environment and humans. Pollution is very dangerous, it could cause early death, suffering from lung and heart disease. Pollution is affecting the ozone. Pollution is caused by smoke, ash, and toxic fumes from volcanoes. (“Pollution” 2014) Pollution causes smog(“Pollution” 2014) Finally, 33% of ocean pollution comes from atmospheric toxins.(“We” 1942)
When most people think about what is wrong with the environment, they can think of many things wrong with it. The amount of pollution that has either enter the air, land, or the ground. The amount of pollution within the air has been constantly been caused by humans doing a lot of activities that release a lot of carbon emissions. Activities such as deforestation of trees, the uses of automotive cars, and factories producing so much smog on a daily basis. With all of these activities, much of the air quality is poor and can cause many health problems for humans. As stated EPA, “Breathing polluted air can make your eyes and nose burn. It can irritate your throat and make breathing difficult” (EPA 4).
For the past twenty years, society has surpassed the “Waste equals sustenance” analysis (Frederick, 2007). Individuals have begun to overload our municipal landfills with waste products that could be reused or recycled. By abusing landfills with these waste products, society has begun causing harm to the environment. There are many anti-recycling activists like John Tierney who oppose recycling because he believes it to be a waste of taxpayer’s dollars, and the public’s time and energy (Hershkowitz, 1998). In today’s society recycling ha...
If you have done the research you would know that im not the only one who thinks recycling should be our number one priority. The trash we throw away instead of reusing is polluting our oceans and in the process polluting our bodies. Everyone can pitch in a little be it through recycling more yourself, spreading the word, or if your really motivated getting some signatures to send to your local government.just remember that all big changes start with a single act and snowball from
If everyone recycled think of how much more space there would be in landfills across the world. There is only so much room on this earth and we are using a huge portion of it for our trash. Clearlake, California alone on a busy day can bring in 80,000 pounds of trash to the local dump. I know this because I work at the local dump in Mckinleyville. I also see a lot of people that throw away their recycling for the simple reason of being too lazy to sort it. I watch bag after of bag of plastic, aluminum, and glass get thrown into the bin which we haul straight to a landfill in Anderson, California. If everyone in Mckinleyville recycled there plastic, aluminum and glass they could save thousands of pounds a day from going to the landfill. I think people are not informed that waste is a big problem in this world. But in fact conservation is an issue, and resources and energy aren't too plentiful. Someday these resources are going to run out. But the more we recycle the longer we can make these resources last.
The only thing left to say is: Next time you think to put your newspaper in the landfill bin, Next time you think to leave your leftover food to rot and have no use; think again. Be a contributor to sustainable development for the planet which your future generations will depend on, and Recycle. It is definitely NOT just ‘all a load of rubbish’ don’t you agree?
Air pollution is caused by many things such as car fumes, burning of fossil fuels,
Pollution is the effect of human activities that destroys the environment; it is observed in land, air, and water. This can cause of deaths of plants, animals, and human.
Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans--through the control of nature and the development of new products--have also resulted in the pollution, or contamination, of the environment. Much of the world's air, water, and land is now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the globe to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and animals have become endangered or are now extinct. As a result of these developments, governments have passed laws to limit or reverse the threat of environmental pollution.
In our life, we always encounter the word pollution, especially living in a country wherein this is most common. We may ask ourselves, what is Pollution? Pollution is the occurrence wherein the environment is contaminated with waste products and other harmful substances. These dangerous waste and substances are called pollutants. This problem in our environment is common because of the many waste products that are being contributed to our environment. A lot of people are not aware of it but there are actually different types of pollution that damage our environment. We may commonly hear about water and air pollution but there are many different types of pollution that give way to this problem which does not only affect our surroundings but the people as well.
In campus, there are always two trash cans that we can use to put our garbage in, one is landfill other is recycle. What I always see is people don’t care which trash can they are using regard to the garbage. Because they think all the trash will be environmentally safe. This action makes the recycling meaningless. According to Denison Richard, landfills are major sources of air and water pollution, also including greenhouse gas emissions. What’s more, decomposing
understand that our World is facing a big “trash” problem, and we should be working for a
Around 40 percent deaths worldwide are caused by pollution, according to Lang (2007) “Water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, Cornell research survey finds” Polluting causes disturbance to the ecosystem, which affects the normal lifestyle. Pollution appears when toxins infect the natural surroundings of the environment. Different forms of pollution are air, water, soil, radioactive, noise, heat, and light. Environment degradation, human health, and global warming are three main effects of pollution.
What is pollution? Pollution is a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. The importance of the study of pollution is to inform readers on the effects and how it can hurt your health. According to Peeples, “Air has gotten cleaner in recent years. But more than half of people in the U.S. still breathe dirty air enough to to cause health problems.” Most people who go outside expect to breathe in clean fresh air, but that’s not always the case if you live in urban areas because those places have many cars, trucks, buses, planes, and even factories that give off pollution into the air more than rural areas. Even though big cities are trying their best to help the environment lower the amount of pollution, there are still lingering amounts of pollution in the air that is breathed. What has been done to help the air has improved it because the air is getting cleaner from then all the way to now. Although if you live in more of a rural area there may not be a huge amount of pollution coming into the air because of less traffic, more open land,
What is pollution? Pollution is a detrimental enemy to all species that walk on earth. It is a product of mankind carbon foot print on the environment. It consists of chemicals or particles in the air that can harm the health of humans, animals, and plants. Pollution occurs when pollutants contaminate the natural surrounding; which brings about changes that affect our normal lifestyles adversely. Pollutants are the key elements of pollution which are generally waste materials of dissimilar forms. Pollution disturbs our ecosystem and the balance in the environment. With innovation and development in our lives pollution has reached its peaks; giving rise to global warming and human illness. When raw materials, water, energy and other resources