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Remember Three Rs of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? There's much more to it.
Remember the classic 3Rs of environmentalism? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. These three little words used to make daily sense to millions of us. Of course, I grew up on the heels of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and the first blue bin craze. Plastic crates seemed like they were on every suburban curbside filled with people's barely sorted junk.
By RJ Ashfield5 years ago in Earth
All About Environmental Engineering And Consultation
There are several environmental engineering consultation services that are being offered today to meet the growing demand for such service. The primary objective is to sustain or improve the standard of living of the local plant and the surrounding community. The scope of such services in Environmental Engineering comprises:
By Priya Sachdeva5 years ago in Earth
Find Somebody who'll Listen
Q. How do you reduce a carbon footprint? A. By adding water. Look, it's no big secret that the western 2/3 of the US is getting bone-dry or already bone-dry. It's also no secret that there's too much water in various places and not enough in others. Look at any water map of the United States and you'll see that the biggest threat to a second American Civil War is the western 2/3 of the US panicking and coming after the eastern 1/3 of the US, simply for its water resources.
By Jonathan Blackbow5 years ago in Earth
Plastic-eating bacteria! Might it solve the plastic pollution problem?
Micro-plastics have shown that they are really becoming a massive problem for the environment and even invading our food chain. To put it simply, all types of plastic waste are impacting our ecosystem from the highest mountain to the depths of the ocean.
By Wayne Porteous5 years ago in Earth
This Farming Method Can Help Save the Planet from Emissions
Thursday 22nd April was Earth Day, an annual event marked to encourage environmental protection. The first Earth Day was held in 1970 and could be considered as the first contemporary movement about the environment.
By James Patefield5 years ago in Earth
My Pledge for Mother
I've always had this ordained guilt for space my body and I take upon this earth. I see people throwing things away senselessly, fighting over prices and materials just for it all to fill landfills and clutter backyards to collect rust. I've always tried to search for the right, for the intention in everything I do. The intense guilt and self-loathing I felt when I would be told "that's junk, just throw it away" overwhelmed me as a kid. They start you off young, cutting out bold laminate letters reading "Remember to Recycle" in my first-grade classroom, right above the cubbies as you hang up your backpacks and take off your shoes. Continuing further with notes by light switches in my seventh-grade classroom, "The last one out turns off the light!", and even a designated student every week to make sure all computers were off after free time.
By Brianne Crowe5 years ago in Earth
