Pollution In Booneville

“Waste” is a short essay in which Wendell Berry critically analyzes the growing epidemic of trash that is polluting the nation’s land, waterways, and the air. Berry explains to the readers how the remnants of floods and litter that leave farmlands scattered with trash, makes more work for the farmers who have to rid their land of the trash before they can use it. Along with the floods, roads and highways also lead to a barrage of garbage from people who are too lazy or ignorant to take proper care of their garbage, which Berry claims leads to “. . . a constant precipitation of cans, bottles, the plastic-ware containers of fast food joints, soiled plastic diapers, and sometimes whole bags of garbage,” (Waste 1) along the edges of their fields. The garbage of the country continues to be a burden for everyone, whether it impacts them directly or not. Although it would be impossible to eliminate garbage completely from the country, the waste could be greatly reduced. Most of today’s trash is a consequence of the laziness of American society.

It will make it easier for everyone who lives in the community.Less street cleaning will be done. The flyer states "According to the Enviromental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than four pounds or trash each day and recyles only about a third of that amount. Those daily pounds of trash add up. They result in tons added to unnecessarily to our landfill each year." This piece of evidence states that Americans have built up trash in our enviorment that adds up and isn't good for our landfill. The trash that is placed on the ground adds up and if we recycle it can easily save our landfill.

Our class has concluded that the conodoguinet creek is not polluted. If we test the Conodoguinet Creek for signs of pollution, then the creek will be polluted. That was my hypothesis for the creek, but it was wrong. There are many creatures that are pollution sensitive, which means they can’t survive in pollution. We found many of these creatures in the stream. Also, we have tested the creek for pollutants and other chemicals. Lastly, acid rain is a problem, so we tested the rocks for neutralizing acid. Here are some reasons why we think the creek is not polluted.

Finally, pollution may be the worst human impact of them all. Litter is a big problem as it affects the parks natural beauty and destroys several habitats, putting the wildlife’s lives at risk. This is managed by park rangers who come and pick up rubbish during opening hours. However, there are only a few bins in the park. This is partially effective but could be

People hear about issues and events that happen in America every day. Unfortunately every issue or problem does not receive the necessary media attention. One of the roughest cities in the United States, Detroit, Michigan is being affected by pollution. Detroit Wastewater Treatment Facility is the largest source of discharge into the river with 47 billion gallons of diluted sewage water dump into the Detroit River. 10.1 millions of toxic substance was dumped in the great lakes (Matthews, 2013.para.7). Due to the unstable environment Asthma, Cancer, and birth defects are at its peak. This is because of the factories built in the city next to the lower class neighborhoods. There has been cases where a local neighborhoods has been affected by

Brownsville, Texas is a historical place in U.S history, it’s been in numerous battles and has memorabilia scattered all over. Brownsville is a home and a passage to thousands of unique birds that migrate to and from South America when seasons change. Brownsville is now home to Space X, an organization that sets to create history by landing on Mars. It’s home to companies like Texas LNG, that transport fuel all over the world from Brownsville. So why is Brownsville so ugly? Why are there piles upon piles of trash everywhere I look around my city? Why do the people of Brownsville liter everywhere like it’s no big deal? As a proud citizen of Brownsville, Texas, I feel ashamed seeing my city like this.

The pollution has caused many to feel “stressed, annoyed, nervous, and anxious” (Nicole, 2013, p.187). Others have reported feeling depressed, anger, fatigue, and confusion (Bullers, 2005, p.6). These symptoms are also partly due to the “inability to engage in routine daily activities” (Johnston & Wing, 2014, p.2). People cannot enjoy the outdoors, which is a significant part of rural living (Donham et al, 2007, p. 318). The social aspect (family gatherings, inviting friends over) is disrupted. Thus, the quality of life for those living in eastern North Carolina is particularly

“During the early 1900’s the discovery of oil and natural gas in areas around Baton Rouge attracted chemical companies to the city” (Reilly). Since the beginning of the 1900’s Louisiana has been a large refining state, one may say one of the best, but also one of the most damaging. It can be safely said that since the start of refining in Louisiana well over a billion pounds of pollution has been released. In 2011 alone over a million pounds of chemicals were released into the air and a separate 1.3 million had been released into the water. All of Louisiana’s 17 refineries reported accidents contributing to these chemical spills (Sturgis). The numbers that have been presented so far may not seem out of the ordinary

There are many problems in Ohio that require attention for them to be solved. One of our main problems in Ohio right now is the level of algae we have in our lakes and rivers. Having algae in our lakes and rivers is dangerous for our present and future. Having our community drink water with algae in it can get people sick and poisoned. There have been many large algae blooms within these past few years, and having no preparations for the algae in the water caused immense panic in the community. There were stores that limited one case of water per customer, and most stores didn’t even have any water after only a couple hours, while the tap water wasn’t safe for only three days. Given that we didn’t know how long the algae would be in our water, no one was prepared and officials couldn’t tell us exactly when the water would be clean again. Most of the phosphorus that causes the algae to grow comes from our crops, like corn and wheat, being fertilized. This algae causes terror in our community and causes people to react in terrible ways. We need to have a solution figured out so that the terror stops and our families are safe. Having no water is one of the worst situations for so many people to be in when they aren’t prepared for it. This is an issue not only for our community, but for our whole country.

Such organizations that are already combating pollution now include: National Renewable Energy Lab, Public Utility Commission of Texas, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. We could further catalyze this effort by creating a social stigma where people want to recycle like those in various parts of the world. Presently, in Curitiba, Brazil, the federal government incentivizes their citizens by rewarding them with bus tokens for recycling; in a heavily populated area, this a perfect mutual communal and governmental relationship that deals with the conflict of pollution. We could format some solutions around that idea. Coincidentally, Texas is a prodigious state where it has an opulence amount of land for wind farms and a lengthy coast for wind and current turbines. This would ameliorate our source of energy and our pollution output while also provide numerous jobs to Texans and creating scenic images for tourists. Overall, the benefits would outweigh the ordeal of transitioning through this laborious

he issue which I decided upon as the biggest problem in my community is pollution. The reason I chose this issue is because I live in New Castle Pennsylvania which is ranked as one of the most polluted cities in the country. This puts New Castle above cities such as LA who are known for their terrible pollution rate even though we are a small urban area. In this town and its surrounding cities such as Pittsburgh more than 25 thousand people have been diagnosed with lung asthma. Even growing up this unnaturally high trend was obvious. This is apparently a very big problem for this area.

As investigation continued, these same areas of Beaverton with the worst pollution in town also proved to house some of the poorest and uneducated persons living in Beaverton. Proper analysis of the statistics on these two areas of Beaverton showed some chilling facts. These two areas ranked at or above the 75th percentile on the demographic index, minority population, low income, linguistically isolated persons, and those with less than a high school education. Now, I began to realize that my hometown has environmental justice issues of its

>Among all the factors that are attributed to population health, the environment is perhaps the greatest. It is common knowledge in public health that if the physical environment is unhealthy, so is the population that live there. Even though the many of the environmental issues are being addressed by the State and County authorities, Clayton County is experiencing a slow rate of change. While the air pollution-particulate matter is declining, it is currently at 13.2, which is higher than the national average of 9.5, and the 12.8 for the state’s average.2 In addition, this county has drinking water violations and severe housing problems. As a result of these and other environmental issues, Clayton County ended up with a county ranking of 159 out of 159.1 This is not a good thing for the population of Clayton County.

Everyone today contributes to pollution in some way or another. Daily routines such as driving to work or cooking release hazardous gases and numerous other toxins in the air. The same toxins released can cause harm to the lungs or even kill due to the carcinogens. Not only does the polluted air harm people but the effect to the planet is vast as well. Issues such as global warming, acid rain, and droughts are evidently linked to polluted air. Though pollution is not solely based in the air, many other forms exist as well like water, radioactive, and thermal/heat pollution. Yet the sad reality is, many people are exposed to it far more than others because of their ethnic backgrounds or for poverty based reasons. Communities with lower income

Our residents have trash bins that they load their trash into then they put it out in front of their house on a certain day of the week. Then we have trash men that