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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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Fresh Kills Landfill Sanitary Landfill
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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Effects Of Global Warming Carbon Dioxide
1,403 wordsThe Problem of Global Warming First discovered at the turn of the century by the Swedish scientist Arrhenius, global warming was initially thought to only cause increased greenhouse gases from coal combustion emissions. It wasn? t until fifty years later that the real causes and effects of global warming would be discovered. A British scientist by the name of Calendar correlated the 10 % increase of atmospheric Carbon Dioxide between 1850 and 1940 with the observed warming of northern Europe and...
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Municipal Solid Waste Carbon Dioxide
2,028 wordsThe Presidential Green Chemistry Awards-Dr. Mark Holtzapple In 1996, Mark Holtzapple of Texas A 038; M University received the Academic Award for the Green Chemistry challenge. This award was given to him for the development of a family of technologies that converts waste biomass into animal feed and industrial chemicals and fuels by adding lime to a fermentation process. This waste biomass includes municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, manure, and agricultural residues. As we all know all of ...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Municipal Solid Waste
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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