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Washington D C Solid Waste
1,183 wordsThesis: After reading this essay, I will fully understand the issue of recycling and the three solutions I have found. Purpose: To provide myself with the information necessary to choose the proper recycling program I feel is the most efficient and effective. Carless, Jennifer. Taking Out The Trash: A No-Nonsense Guide to Recycling. Washington D. C. : Island Press, 1992. This book discusses the fundamentals of recycling, for individuals, businesses and communities. It also describes the history ...
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Second World War First World War
1,897 wordsThe Treaty of Versailles: Prelude to WWII The Treaty of Versailles was not a justified treaty which created German feelings of revenge and dislike towards the victorious countries. This feeling of revenge felt by Germany, in addition with the social atmosphere of Europe, led to a second World War in the September of 1939, just 11 years after the first World War. People at the time published reports on the unfairness of the treaty. America never ratified the treaty but Britain and France still en...
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Solid Waste Million Tons
847 wordsReusing products is one way to cut down on what we throw away this is called recycle. Recycle reduces the amount of waste that needs to be buried in a landfill. This reduction in volume may result in reduced disposal costs to add to the useful life expectancy of a landfill. And recycling puts discarded material to valuable use, cutting down on a litter and conserving natural resources. In some localities, recycled materials are sold. A person living in an industrialized, wealthy nation may produ...
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Using Irradiation To Make Food Safer For Consumers
1,173 words... the product and not in all directions, the electron beam is more efficient. A ten kilowatt beam generator is as powerful as about one-million curies from a cobalt- 60 source (Murano 14 - 15). The electron accelerators produce from five to ten million electron volts and ten to fifty kilowatts (Murano 15 - 16). The electron beam efficiency can be increased by aiming the beam at a metal target, usually tungsten or tantalum. This produces Bremsstrahlung x-rays. This type of x-ray can penetrate a...
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Sugar Cane Production In Cuba
470 wordsHavana, April 17 (APIC). In Cuba, historically, prosperous and poor times were called the time of the fat cows and the time of the skinny cows respectively. In this skinny cow period that has prolonged for a record 4 decades, we must also refer in recent years to an even more discouraging expression: the time of the skinny sugar cane. After the disastrous last few years of sugar production, hitting rock bottom with the "zara" of 1995, which yielded only 3 million tons of raw sugar (96 degree bas...
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Solid Waste Waste Disposal
2,006 wordsWhen I was a child, recycling was only important at school. My teachers would always tell me that recycling was good for the earth. But, I didn't really show any concern, because my parents never really mentioned recycling until I got older. I started recycling aluminum cans, because I found out that companies paid money for recycled cans. The first time I took my cans to be recycled I got forty dollars, so naturally it became a regular hobby of mine. Not only did the money impress me, but also ...
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Effects Of Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide
1,028 words"Acid Rain, " or more precisely acidic precipitation, is the term used to describe rainfall that has a pH level of less than 5. 6 -- a pH of 7 being neutral. This form of air pollution is currently a subject of great controversy because of the damage it does tot he environment and property worldwide. For the last ten years, this occurrence has brought destruction to thousands of lakes and streams in the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe. It also leads to the deterioration of buildings a...
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Planet From The Sun Carbon Dioxide
2,115 wordsWhat are planets? Planets are kinda like asteroid around the sun. There are nine planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth (Our planet), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Terrestrial Planets The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like the Earth's. The planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars have significant atmospheres while Mercury has...
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Acid Rain Acid Deposition
561 wordsWhen thought of acid rain, some people may think of green, burning acid falling from the sky, destroying everything in sight. This may be a bit ridiculous and hard to believe, but as absurd as it sound, it is not far from the truth. Acid deposition has long been a subject of debate because of the widespread environ-mental damage it is responsible for. As one of the major results of air pollution, acid rain can corrode metal and limestone structures, leach important minerals, decreased fertility ...
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Is Nuclear Power Safe For The Environment
1,393 words... inside into the atmosphere, which affects the ever so popular greenhouse effect (Editorial 196). These greenhouse effects could cause serous changes in weather climates. Acid rain is also a side effect to burning coal. It can affect everything from crop growth to damaging fish in lakes and rivers. So you have to ask yourself, is coal environmentally safe? If not, what is? Maybe oil would be the suitable solution to Americas energy crisis. Along with coal, oil has to be burnt to produce elect...
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Parts Per Million Degrees Centigrade
410 wordsUranium is a silvery-white element possessing a very radioactive and oxidizing character. Uranium retains a density of 19. 07 grams per cubic centimeter and a melting point of roughly 1, 132 degrees centigrade. With a boiling point of approximately 3, 818 degrees Celsius uranium is not an easy element to get to a melting or boiling point. The Periodic Table says that uranium has 92 protons and 146 neutrons thereby acquiring a atomic weight of 238 atomic mass units. Uranium burns readily in air a...
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The Clean Water Act Of 1977
748 wordsAs swans drift with the current on a secluded lake in upper Canada they think not of the water they are in but of dreams of the past and wants for the future. On the other hand, seals off the coast of Northern California fear for their lives every day of humans exploiting their natural habitat. Many things can endanger water born animals, and most all of these come directly from humans. The pollutants of water come from many sources both close and far away from the water body itself. Wastes of h...
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Clean Air Act H 2 O
1,801 wordsAcid rain is exactly what it suggests- rain that is acidic. The definition of 'acid rain' is rain with a pH of below 5. 6. Rain becomes acidic because of gases that dissolve in the rain. Approximately 70 % of acid rain is a result of dissolved sulfur dioxide (SO 2) which forms Sulfuric Acid. The remaining 30 % or so comes from various Nitrogen Oxides (mostly NO 2 and NO 3 which has collectedly adopted the mane Nox). There is also a small percentage of hydrochloric acid that makes up hydrochloric...
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Arcelor V Mittal Steel Major League
1,935 wordsArcelor v. Mittal Steel: Major League The companies located in areas with good perspectives of growth of steel consumption and relatively cheap energy vectors enjoy great popularity. However, the owners pay a high price for keeping the companies in the market. By the example of Erdemir we can see that the presence of company in a certain region is more important than incredibly high price for it. At the same time, Lakshmi Mittal's purchase of American ISG displaced European group Arcelor from th...
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Million Metric Tons Iron Ore
1,556 wordsIndia is located in the southern part of Asia and is also south of the Himalayan Mountains. This southern peninsula has the largest mineral deposits and the largest cultivable land in the continent. The population of India is critically large and although nearly all people are Hindu, some are of other religious denominations. The life of the Indian people is usually ruled by their caste system, but the system is not as firm as it was years ago. India has a mixed economy. The different elements o...
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Annotated Bibliography Solid Waste
1,229 wordsHOUSEHOLD RECYCLING: EASIER THAN YOU THINK! by Amy Newman Thesis: After reading this essay, I will fully understand the issue of recycling and the three solutions I have found. Primary Audience: Myself Purpose: To provide myself with the information necessary to choose the proper recycling program I feel is the most efficient and effective. English 1302, 7010 Professor Ice September 22, 2000 Annotated Bibliography Carless, Jennifer. Taking Out The Trash: A No-Nonsense Guide to Recycling. Washing...
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Standard Of Living Dollars A Year
1,231 wordsThe country of India has been faced with many problems. They have very important short-term problems, which means less time is spent on long term problems. Natural World disasters, wars, drought, and other major problems are more important to these people than such things as over population, pollution, literacy rate and their currency. In this essay I will state the major problems hassling this country. I will give as many statistics as possible, try to decide how to improve these problems, and ...
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Hemp Oil Million Tons Paper
492 wordsLegilisation of Marijuana The generic term hemp is often used to refer to all uses and forms of the cannabis plant, including marijuana. In 1938, a Popular Mechanics magazine article, entitled New Billion Dollar Crop, established hemp as the standard fiber of the world, identified it as the strongest, most durable, longest lasting natural soft fiber in existence, and listed over 25, 000 products that can be manufactured from it. Hemp's versatility yields fiber and hurds (the core of the stem) fr...
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Persons Per Square Los Angeles Times
2,649 wordsOverpopulation: The Worlds Problem The worlds population will soon reach a level where there will not be enough resources to sustain life as we know it. Growth must be checked to avoid this catastrophe. Many environmental, social, and economic problems either stem from or are increased in magnitude by the overpopulation problem. With an exponentially increasing population, the problems created by overpopulation grow correspondingly. To ensure population stability not only in the increasingly wea...
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Life On Earth Carbon Dioxide
3,238 wordsThe Enviromnetal Degradation as a Result of Overpopulation 1 Introduction There are simply too many people on our planet, and the population is not showing any signs of slowing down (see Figure 1). It is having disastrous effects on our environment. There are too many implications and interrelationships to discuss in this paper, but the three substances that our earth consists of: land, water and air, are being destroyed. Our forests are being cut down at an alarming rate, bearing enormous impac...
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