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    in the international market D2 In your evaluation you must consider how issues such as health, welfare, social considerations, environmental issues and belief system Environmental issues that affect their business operation include industrial waste, sustainable development of raw materials and water and air emissions. Most times when businesses are trading internationally, these issues affect business because the laws in which they operate sometimes require businesses to change equipment they

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    The Effects of Smog/Toxic Pollution The most important issue that matter to us the most today is our health. Key words used mostly by many individuals today are the two words known as life and death. Knowing that these two words exist in our midst, many of us still suffer from lots of illnesses and diseases based on different types of circumstances, but what are the main causes? Just imagine yourself driving your car with all its windows/glass-doors down while enjoying the fresh air outside. All

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    Regulated Ocean Pollution

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    the cause but no one knows for sure. Ocean dumping falls under under one of three categories depending on what item is being dumped. There is the black, gray, and white list. The blacklist is made up of very harsh chemicals like mercury, radioactive waste, plastic, crude oil, and substances used for chemical warfare. Gray is still an intense list but not as detrimental as the previously mentioned black list. The makeup of the gray list is: nickel, scrap metal, cyanide, many other types of alloys and

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    away and get a new one. They blame the government for the trash problem, but the truth blame should be placed on themselves. The last great source of pollution lays in the businesses. Although not common, businesses have been known to dump their waste products into streams, lakes, and rivers. This may seem like a relatively small occurrence that really is not your concern, but you're wrong. Each time one of these companies pollutes there are horrible consequences to pay. Mutations, destroyed ecosystems

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    humans produce. We easily dump our waste into the oceans to dispose of our problem, but this small and simple solution is creating an even bigger problem. The way humans dispose of their wastes is causing the death of our beloved marine life. Not only are we killing off our animals, our food source, and our resources, we are also minimizing our usable water. Pollution comes in many forms. In the ocean we dump a variety of substances, including human wastes, chemicals from fertilizers, oil,

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    Air Pollution and the Economy Air Pollution is the contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous, liquid, or solid wastes or by products that can endanger human health and the health and welfare of plants and animals, or can attack materials, reduce visibility, or produce undesirable odors. For example: air pollution can contaminate and kill many crops on a farm, it may also prevent them from ever growing on that land again. If the farms had no healthy food to sell to us then people could die

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    Toxic: Garbage Island

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    Toxic: Garbage Island, a documentary by Vice Magazine, goes to show the carelessness of humans, more so in the developed world. Vice does this by sending a crew of a few of their journalists on a boat with a scientist and two men who control the boat to take a firsthand look at the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean. Gyres are known to be large, swirling masses of garbage found floating on the surface of the ocean in various places where tides interact with each other, but Vice dives into detail

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    Garbage Patch Recycling

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    pollution. When substances such as plastics are improperly disposed into rivers and beaches, it could be very destructive to the environment. Not only do waste mostly plastic waste, contaminate these water bodies, but they also harm marine life. One of the biggest problems that have resulted due to the improper disposition of plastic and other waste is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. “About 80 percent of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land based activities in North America

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    What are the environmental impacts if the Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet? Well first we must split the topic into four sections. First we must know what it is.The Suisun Bay ghost fleet are a group of toxic ships near Benicia in the waters of the San Francisco Bay and Delta Estuary. They have been polluting the waters since they have been abandon which adds up to decades. Many of the ships in the ghost fleet are obsolete ships that were decommissioned and placed in “storage” in Suisun Bay after World War

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    not only to individual species and population, but also to the natural biological communities(WIKI 1).The three acts which causes water pollution are when garbage is dumped into oceans,and causing oil spills while transporting crude oils,industrial waste dumped into oceans. The first reason to pollution is oil spills.An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydro carbonate into the oceans(wikipedia 1).For example,when oil is shipped,it is natural to cause oil spills.As oil can not be dissolved

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