Toxic waste

When thinking about sociological issues taking place in our society today, issues concerning our environment commonly are not ones we put on the top of the list, however they should be. It is not that any of the other social issues do not matter, but without a world to live on, or an environment to live off of those other issues would not even be taking place. Our environment has been something that we neglect and carelessly use for our own personal economic growth because it is what has been done

The toxic manufactured materials, such as plastic, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and other

protect against losing it's surface area. 40 million Canadians and Americans live amongst their basin. The author, Peter Annin, brings up clean water scarcity, this is a huge problem around the world and right in our "back yard". The city of Flint's toxic, unusable water has become an embarrassment for all of Michigan. Humans were not put on this Earth to destroy it like we do. We are leaving our mark on the world in the most negative way possible,

Ford and the Firestone crisis was a long-standing controversy between the car manufacturer and the tyre company based on the failures of Ford Explorer vehicles with Firestone tyres. In the year 2001, the controversy broke out as there were plenty of incidents happened as more than 220 people have been killed with road accidents all over America involving Ford Explorer vehicles. There was a bit of rivalry between Ford and General Motors and with this controversy it had damaged the reputation of Ford

Our oceans take a large beating every day by the extremely large amount of pollution humans produce. Our society easily dumps their waste into the oceans to dispose of the excessive amount of garbage, sewage, and chemicals, 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.

microorganisms, chemicals, industrial wastes, and other types or waste water. These materials deteriorate the quality of the water and make it useless for the intended uses. Pure water is a renewable resource, however it can get so polluted by human activities that is no longer useful, but rather harmful. What pollutes the water?  Pathogens - bacteria, viruses, protozoa, parasites that enter the water from organic wastes.  Wastes requiring oxygen. - The organic waste can be decomposed by bacteria that

consume and even the food we eat. Humanity plastic foot print in the oceans has caused a major garbage path located thousands of miles off the coast of California, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is caused due to humans that throw their waste into the sea and went those plastics are in the water, it breaks down into smaller particles; then pushed by winds, tides and currents, plastic particles form with other debris into large swirling glutinous accumulation zones. For instance, The World

Beyond the Deepwater Horizon: What’s Killing the Oceans? The ocean has been a used as a dumping ground for centuries, with corporations and nations the world over using it to get rid of all sorts of unwanted things, from sewage to nuclear waste. The ocean is so vast and deep that what gets swallowed up by it seems to disappear forever. Unfortunately, as scientists and fishermen are increasingly finding out, what we put in the ocean is coming back to haunt us. The most widely known incidents of marine

issue of trash on these beaches has become more apparent and I have become more involved with this issue. For me, being a global citizen means protecting the planet and the people who reside in it, and this can be tackled by altering the way we treat waste. In the United States we live in a disposable society. We throw out plastic products after one use and dispose of gently used clothing and electronics. These products can take hundreds of years to decompose in a landfill or can affect

anything but accept it because they have no voice to stand up against the people dumping waste into our oceans. So if more fish die, the more rare they would be to get and even with the fish they manage to catch that fish may be contaminated with mercury and other diseases thus fishermen cannot sell that fish at all or they will face consequences. However there are people that use fishing as a way of life, without much fish being caught they will have no choice but to increase their prices as well