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Fresh Kills Landfill Sanitary Landfill
1,576 wordsWhen asked to think of the largest man made structure, people will invariably come up with an answer like The Great Wall of China, the Great Pyramids, or the Taj Mail. In contrast to these striking achievements of mankind is the Durham Road Landfill outside San Francisco, which occupies over seventy million cubic feet. It is a sad monument to the excesses of modern society [Gore 151 ]. One must think this huge reservoir of garbage must be the largest thing ever produced by human hands then. Unha...
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1,561 wordsWhat is the largest construction you can think of? Does a landfill come to your mind? Probably not. One of the largest buildings on the face of the earth is the Pyramid of the sun, constructed in Mexico and covers approximately thirty million cubic feet of space. Now if you think that is big just imagine an even larger structure: a landfill that occupies over seventy million cubic feet of biosphere, we are talking about the Durham Road landfill, outside San Francisco. It is a sad monument, indee...
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694 wordsGarbage Laws, a Narrative Essay The town of Kabawaga, where I live, has some very strict garbage bylaws that were first introduced some ten years ago in an effort to use new recycling guidelines and to save money as authorities at that time stated that the landfills were almost at capacity. And what started out as a conservation measure has now escalated into a stack of garbage laws for our community. The town claimed that it was progressing as each year saw a new bylaw regulating garbage come i...
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Toxic Wastes Hazardous Waste
2,282 wordsGARBAGE: TRIM THAT TONNE TABLE OF CONTENTS Preliminary Consideration A. Inherent implications in the situation 3 B. Possible causes 4 2. Identify the Problem A. Ten different perspectives of looking at the problem 4 B. Best expression of the problem 4 3. Research the Problem A. Sources to use in order to gain knowledge of the problem 5 4. Range of Possible Solutions and Refining the Best one. A. Ten possible solutions 6 5. Justification for best solution. 7 B. Possible objections to solution 8 C...
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1,598 wordsIt has long been believed that the largest entity brought upon the Earth by humankind is the Pyramid of the Sun, constructed in Mexico around the start of the Christian era. The mammoth structure commands nearly thirty million cubic feet of space. In contrast, however, is the Durham Road Landfill, outside San Francisco, which occupies over seventy million cubic feet of the biosphere. It is a sad monument, indeed, to the excesses of modern society [Gore 151 ]. One might assume such a monstrous mo...
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5,812 wordsEvironmentalism: The Next Step Broad Social Change Through Personal Commitment Introduction In the last thirty years, America has witnessed an environmental revolution. New laws like the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act forged new ground in political environmentalism. Social phenomena like Earth Day, organized by Dennis Hayes in 1970, and the beginning of large-scale recycling, marked by Oregon's 1972 Bottle Bill, have help change the way Americans think about the environm...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Municipal Solid Waste
1,155 wordsWaste is a problem, a problem that is on the increase. Europe produces one hundred and thirty million tons of household garbage, 324 million tons of solid industrial waste and 30 million tons of hazardous waste every year. Disposing of this waste is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive, and many countries are considering burning municipal solid waste to produce energy as an alternative to traditional methods of disposal such as landfill. The most important reason for which landfills are...
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3,346 words+ Introduction Did you know? Americans use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as a football field and as high as the World Trade Center Towers. We even throw away so much aluminum every three months that we can rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. Each person, yes, included you, in America creates about 4. 4 pounds of trash every single day. Did you also know? That it takes 100 years for tin to break down, 500 years for aluminum, and glass takes one million years. One reason ga...
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