Environment Essays

Step 1. Ranking Products.  Choose six of the items you are wearing, currently using, or that are within your reach at this moment. List them in Table 1, ranking them according to which you believe are more or less sustainable, and a brief justification for your decision. Item Description Why did you choose this item? […]

Hazardous waste poses substantial threats to public health and the environment. It can be in the form of solid, liquid, gas or sludge and therefore, should be disposed of responsibly. The hazardous waste is toxic, corrosive and sometimes flammable and they come from different sources like factories, manufacturing plants, hospitals and lubricants or pesticides.The public […]

Pollution refers to the act of introducing harmful substances into a specific commodity, location, or the surrounding environment, which can have detrimental effects on the affected area and its dependent creatures. It is not limited to merely impacting the directly contaminated region or object, as it also has negative repercussions on the surrounding flora and […]

Significant changes in water quantity and quality are evident across the world. These changes, which are expected to persist, present an ongoing risk to interconnected human and natural systems and related ecosystem services. Surface water quality is declining as water temperature increases and more frequent high-intensity rainfall events mobilize pollutants such as pathogens and plastics, […]

Introduction Plastic can be discovered almost everywhere on Earth, in the depths of oceans and even in Arctic ice (Parker). Shockingly, plastic can even be found on the moon, ever since 1969 when Neil Armstrong set up a nylon US flag on the astronomical body (“Plastic Surgery; Pollution”). It has become a highly favored substance, […]

Paper or Plastic? When someone sees this question they immediately think of their experiences at the checkout counter of grocery stores. Oftentimes, due to the unnecessary stress that comes from grocery shopping, people tend to choose the simplest option. Plastic. However, the simpleness of this option in the supermarket is merely a facade of the […]

Take a look at your average everyday supermarket. The average American can find literally hundreds of items that are specifically designed to make our lives much simpler. Everything from individually wrapped snacks, zip lock bags to store items, dense plastic bottles, you get the picture. Many consumer items in today’s market have one thing in […]

Everyone has heard about microplastics, the small pieces of plastic waste created by the disposal of everyday consumer products. Everyone is strongly against microbeads found in thousands of cosmetic products. Everyone knows a little about microfibers, the thin synthetic yarns shedding into the water during each wash. What about glitter? Chances are you haven’t even […]

For this project, I chose to quit using plastic water bottles. I chose to go down this path for my project because after the first couple days of college, I notice that our recycling bin was already getting really full and it was basically all water bottles. After a few days, we were almost finished […]

In recent years, natural resources had been rapidly reduced due to people’s usage. In the resources that people wasted, most of them had harmful chemicals. These harmful substances were also an important factor affecting the environment. Therefore, In 2014-2019, California has proposed some law on plastic bags, plastic straws, and paper receipts. California believed this […]

Artur Bordalo was born in Lisbon in 1987. During his youth, he tumbled between two worlds. In one world he watched his grandfather, an artist himself, painting with water colors and in the other world he practiced producing graffiti and experienced the consequences that are bound to the illegal activity. Gradually, the habits he had […]

The percentage of plastic used has increased due to the number of products that are packaged in plastic as well as how much plastic is being wasted instead of recycled by humans. There is already a large quantity of plastic on the planet and this is the reason why the world has three plastic islands. […]