RICKIE-LEE KEIKO SUGIYAMA
MR ADEY
SOCIALS 11
APRIL 4TH 2003
GARBAGE
RICKIE-LEE KEIKO SUGIYAMA
SOCIALS 11
MR ADEY
APRIL 4TH 2003
TERM PAPER ON GARBAGE
Most people toss their garbage into dumpsters and down their garbage chutes of to the streets, into parks, drains and the dirt. People haul their used furniture, bikes, old toys, and battered car parts to their city dump without a clue of where it goes and what happens to it. People need to pay more attention to what they do with their garbage that is produced each day. An average of 3.6 pound of garbage is produced a day per household and 1,300 pounds a year. One can only imagine how much that is in a year; it is, in fact, 160 million tons of garbage. That is enough to fill a convoy of 10 tons garbage trucks, 232,000 kilometres long. When people drop their trash on the street, toss litter out their car windows, threw their garbage into lakes or rivers, they are polluting the cites, the countryside and water ways of United Sates.
Water Pollution with Trash Disposal of Waste at th...
A trashcan at a food court in Salt Lake City, Utah
Radio-Active Waste CollecterWhen humans burn garbage in incinerators they pollute the air. When they leave their garbage out in the open it spreads diseases. When people bury it underground, there is a very high risk of contaminating drinking water. Disposing waste legally or illegally harms the environment, especially more with new product that have been produced like disposable facial wipes, diapers, paper cups, plates and other products that are throw away items. Our world is turning in to a "throw away" community. Whatever happened to the cloth diapers and the old way of washing one's face with a facecloth and soap?
What happens when the large amounts of litter reach the oceans? What happens to the world if everyday people are littering...