About 13 million people in Dhaka, Bangladesh rely on Buriganga’s water. Buriganga flows from the southwest suburbs of the capital city Dhaka. Over the years, due to rapid industrial growth, Buriganga is now filled with industrial waste. One of the industries expanding this pollution is the tanning industry. One study states, “[About] 500 tanneries... are discharging 4.75 million liters of a variety of extremely toxic wastes into the [Buriganga] river” (Goldberry26). These harmful toxic wastes may spread health defects among the local people. I am going to highlight the “tanning industry” near the Buriganga River, how it pollutes river water and cause health hazards for people of Dhaka. History of the tanning industry comes a long way. According to a study, In a time when Bangladesh did not exist, Panjabi traders established tannery in Hazaribagh, Dhaka in 1960. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the industries flourished and turned into a 'meal ticket' for …show more content…
Its flow begins from Dhaleshwari river. It has been continuosly flowing for a long time. Buriganga river water is one of the biggest water source of Dhaka city. Tanning industries in Hazaribagh release industrial waste into the Buriganga River. The amount of waste discharge is increasing day by day. According to Chakraborty et al, ”All industrial, municipal (700-1100 tons daily) and urban wastes of Dhaka city (population 1989 about 6.5 million and expected to grow in year 2000 to 11.1 million) are flushed into the Buriganga River. It is estimated that total organic waste load discharged into the river will be around 250 metrictons per day.”(Chakraborty et al. 246). This river is being used to dump waste. Heavy amount of waste discharge change the natural atmosphere of the river. Nowadays Buriganga River appears different than it used to be. Besides that metal elements are also discharged from the tanning industries into the
First of all, the history off the tanning bed did not start when tan skin was hip. The first indoor tanning lamp was created for medicinal purposes in 1906. It was used on ricketts patients to help them develop stronger bones .# How does a tanning bed create stronger bones? Sunlight produces vitamin D in the body, which allows absorption of calcium. The absorption of calcium creates stronger bones. This tanning lamp was not thought about again until the 1970s, when a man named Friederich Wolff came along. Wolff used “artificially produced indoor tanning UV light to study athletes and how they might benefit from more exposure to sunlight.”# The artificial indoor light also gave the subjects of his study a darker complexion. In the fifties, the invention of the bikini popularized tanning outdoors significantly.# This trend still remained in the seventies.
Tanning is a commonly used by Caucasian women to cause their skin tone to darken. Melanin is what gives skin its color. Naturally, when we are exposed to sun, the production of a pigment known as melanin starts which itself acts as a deterrent to the burning effects of ultra violet rays of sun (Pakhare). Some Caucasians find it necessary to tan to increase beauty. It is not necessary to tan to increase beauty.
Jim Rice loved the way tanning made him look and feel, that is, until he became personally affected by the dangers that came with the frivolous glitz and glamour of a nice tan.
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As soon as the summer approaches us, we all dream of a beach vacation. Lucky are those girls who have a beach destination vacation and along with beautiful memories, they even bring home a sun tanned body. For the people in the west a body tan is a super cool thing, but when it comes to Indians, we totally hate it and find numerous ways to remove the suntan. While plenty of skin lightening treatments are offered by the salons for which you would have to spend more than a thousand bucks or so, but what if we say you that you could remove the stubborn sun tan with the products in your kitchen. Surprised, then check out our top 8 easy home remedies to remove sun tan from your body. They are safe, natural
The FDA says that “unprotected exposure to harmful UV rays break down the collagen and elastin fibers in healthy young skin, and cause wrinkles and loosened folds” The FDA proves that indoor tanning can cause premature skin ageing and can affect the appearance from it. There are few ways to treat damaged skin, the ways to treat it would be through Chemical peels, dermabrasion, and skin Fillers. The efforts to fixing skin after it's damaged it is hefty. After spending so much time and money of damaging skin, it is just as costly to get it
Smoking, abuse of drugs, drinking, it’s all abuse to the body. All these things come back eventually and haunt you, but you know what else is abusive to your body? “Tanning beds are literally giving users a killer tan” (Bishop, 2013). The effects of tanning are fatal and many teenagers don’t realize that because the alluring fad of tanning beds are blinding. Many teenagers today, aren’t getting to right guidance, so they don’t understand. Instead of the healthy glow people who tan are trying to achieve, they are instead possibly killing their skin. A federal law against minors who use tanning beds underage, should be enacted, and should be banned.
The 21st century has brought about many trends and technologies conforming America as an egotistical society. With growing popularity in everything from fad diets to Botox, it seems as though people would do almost anything to maintain a certain look. With a healthy body due to extreme diets and a wrinkle free face induced by anti-aging injections, there is another beauty extreme that people seek: a tan to die for. Since early two thousand up until the present, there has been an excessive increase in the popularity of indoor tanning and the use and misuse of tanning beds. With the many known harmful effects that artificial tanning has on its consumer, states have put laws in place to limit those exposed to these ultra violet rays. However, that being said, there is no universal law for the age restriction of tanning salons. We all know the risks of tanning beds and that they are extremely harmful when abused, yet many are unaware that today these beds are strictly regulated and when used in moderation, they can have health benefits. Taking into account the risks and benefits of artificial tanning, the age for tanning be 18 universally.
The days of a fair complex-ion being the “in-style” are long gone. Nowadays the way to appear more attrac-tive is to lie in a bed of artificial ultraviolet rays and get a fake tan. Today, 2.3 teenage girls tan annu-ally in an indoor bed (Komis 34). This isn’t to say that boys never tan and are innocent; it’s just that the majority of tanners under the age of 18 are girls.
Many formulations of tanning lotion have been shown to prevent premature aging and protect the skin from a dry and leathery
Waste water is chemicals consumed down drains and released from factories can cause. Half of all ocean pollution is caused by sewage and water waste. The world generates tons of industrial waste that is usually untreated when dumped in the ocean, lakes, and rivers. Around 300,000 factories in the United States remove clean water from rivers and dump polluted water back in. However, EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has invested about $60 billion to improve waste water as of
In the 1800’s to the early 1900’s, shade of skin had determined the social classes. Those who were tan were seen as manual laborers and of low-class. Those who were paled skin were known to be wealthy and of high-class. It started in the 1920’s with a fashion designer, Coco Chanel, accidentally got burnt when visiting the French Riviera. Chanel liked the dark colored look of her new skin and decided to maintain the look by sun-bathing. (Tanning) When Chanel came back from her trip, people saw her and grown to like the tan look. In 1940’s, bathing suit became skimpier so more can show and allowed more skin to be tanned, and people started to use tanning oils. Then, tanned skin became a look that showed beauty. Today, tan skin has become a sign of youth and sex appeal. Some people have come to think of it as a “healthy glow”. But lately, tanning is become less popular then it once was. Actors and actresses ...
There will growth of water born diseases increasing health hazards and degradation of environment and ecosystems. This affects the natural environment system leading to exaction of some species. And the due contamination of water can also lower the production of agriculture products and other economy activities will decrease. If there will more water bodies pollution it also has negative effects on its environment there decline of economy of the country. Since more of the country budget have invest on the health sectors. The country major users of water are agriculture, intensification hydropower and industrialization. Urbanization is another significant challenge. Rural-urban migration increases pressure on urban infrastructure and services and cause environmental problems which will lead to water pollution.
Since the prehistoric time, rive is the main attractive thing for the people for its charming beauty and waste disposal facility, for this reasons the human settlement, industries and the city was built near the river course. The most intensive interactions between human beings and the environment take place in cities and their peripheries (Raihan and Kaiser, 2012). The ever increasing population increases the pressure on land and makes the demand of land which results people to be influenced to break the law of encroachment of the river and thus makes the word “Encroachment’’ at second stage of eye sore then pollution. Dhaka is expanding apace, at an average rate of 4.24% per year and is projected to be the third largest megacity in the world by the year 2020 (Dewan and Yamaguchi, 2009).Encroachment and Pollution make the mega city Dhaka poisonous, and these are the reciprocal practice of Dhaka city which make the mega city unloving. The mighty river of Dhaka, the Buriganga that serves Dhaka city by conveying its waste and the drainage system
...rectly or indirectly discharged into the River Ganga” (KUMAR 12). In the analysis of the water countless amounts of harmful bacteria were found among them; Salmonella Typhi which causes Typhoid fever in men, B subtilis which can contaminate wounds and, Clostridium perfringens the main bacteria behind gangrene and food poisoning (KUMAR 8).These harmful bacteria have claimed numerous lives and yet the river is still being used for drinking and bathing. . The Ganges is still only one of thousands of other extremely polluted rivers, some of which are here in the United States.