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    phillipons, latin americans, factory owners, people with money. Stated from the passages “ Rosenthall of the NAACP suggests keeping waste facilities out of areas already overburdened with waste or potential toxic exposure”. This proves that environmental racism is everywhere and you won't even know it. To begin with this problem is that factory owners are placing their chemical waste in low income area where kids be playing outside and where babies are born. The article found that “ Three of the largest site

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    The world population is living, working, and vacationing along the coasts. They are contributing to an unprecedented tide of plastic waste. Pollution is defined as the process that alters a substance or molecule on planet earth, the pollution is caused by the physical contact of an organic decaying particle with a clean particle in the same spot, at the time the two particles join together is when occurs pollution in which the environment is greatly altered. Too many, plastic is a modern day miracle

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    Save Our Environment

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    At Home • Adjust Your Water Heater – By turning your water heater down to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, you can save energy. • Clean Your Fridge – Refrigerators use a tremendous amount of energy every year. To cut down on waste, clean the condenser coils every year. Also, do not keep the temperature unnecessarily low. • Recharge Your Batteries – If you recharge your batteries, you will save money and help stop multiple environmental problems. You can prevent potentially hazardous metals from getting

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    fossil fuels, deforestation of rain forests, pumping of greenhouse gases into the air, pollution of water by fertilizers, use of pesticides, animal wastes, emission of toxic chemicals, and rapid erosion of top soil. In addition, until recently people were unconcerned with conservation because they seemed to be so vast a storehouse of resources that waste was not considered a problem. (p. 97). This may explain the tendency to be wasteful, but it is only a partial answer. The underlying sources of our

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    Ocean Protection and Conservation

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    The oceans need to be protected because it is where life began and if not taken care of, life as we know it will end. When dangerous substances go into the ocean, ecosystems are suffer and become endangered along with lives of people and of marine life. Surfrider Foundation recognizes the importance of protecting and preserving the quality and biodiversity of the world's coasts because they are truly irreplaceable. There is also historical evidence of ocean pollution being present in the past, but

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    through a pipe. The purpose is to create enough pressure with this toxic solution to make the gas come back into the surface. When it comes to fracking there are two major statements, one on favor and one against it. Researchers that are against fracking have long assume that the negative consequences are greater than the benefits. For instance, one eminent environmentalist named Michael Brune expresses his concern regarding the toxic waste that fracking involves. The corrosive solution required in fracking

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    As a means of development and urbanisation, and a reflection of wealth and the living standard in a nation, it remains a key focus of most governments. In this course of action, water bodies may be polluted and contaminated due to waste (e.g. sewage and chemical waste) generated from different sectors of the economy. However, water pollution is not inevitable despite a country’s focus on economic growth, and in fact can be mitigated and controlled. A prominent example would be that of Singapore

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    Today, the chemical waste disposal and treatment site takes up 5.7 million cubic yards and disposes of approximately 35 million tons of garbage a year, actions which neglect general health safety. According to the cerrell report, over ninety percent of the hazardous waste has been disposed in a potentially harmful manner which negatively impacts the environment and its people (Powell, 1984). Impacts on the environment include air pollution, groundwater pollution or depletion, and loss of landscape/aesthetic

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    are worst affected and under continuous stress with both biotic and abiotic, due to anthropogenic interventions. If we talk about the soul of infinite life i.e., SOIL then it seems to appear the primary recipient by design or accident of a myriad of waste products and chemicals used in modern society. Soil contamination can be defined as the, addition of any substance to soil that may exert adverse effects on its functioning and capacity to yield a crop. Contamination of heavy metal is of special worry

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    people can afford cheaper items, leading to lots of wastage and technology thrown away more consistently and the continual of development of new products leading consumers to buy more and new tech, that leads them to discard their old tech. all the wastes of metals, electronic parts are thrown away and not recycled. Getting resources to build our technology is growing heftier leading a lot of precious metals are used to generate our precious short term technology, worst thing yet, we don’t know

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