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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Toxic waste ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed:7/94 # of Words:747 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Geography Essay
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How Toxic Waste Affects Our Natural Environment
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Canada and all of the developed countries in the world produce some
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kind of toxic waste(s). It doesn't matter whether it's a chocolate bar
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wrapper or a canister of highly radioactive plutonium, they're potentially
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dangerous to us and/or our natural environment unless properly disposed of.
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Toxic waste is defined as any waste that is hazardous to human health
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or to our natural environment. According to the Institute of Chemical
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Waste Management, about 15% of our garbage is classified as toxic, and only
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85% (approximately) of that is disposed of properly. The rest is either
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illegally dumped or accidentally mixed up with non-toxic garbage. That 15%
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may not seem like a lot, but when you consider the millions of tons of
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toxic waste that we produce every year, that 15% is enormous. The
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that we produce one ton of
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toxic wastes for every single person living in Canada every year. That
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means that the 15% represents about 4.2 million tons of toxic waste.
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Toxic wastes which are dumped in improper sites can seep into
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underground water supplies and contaminate huge areas. If the land that is
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intoxicated supports plant life, most of the plants and trees will die off.
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If the area is lived on by humans, it could cause serious illness or death.
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For example, an area by Niagara Falls (US side) was used during the 1930s
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by a chemical company to dump it's wastes. Most of them were hazardous,
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and the containers that held the chemicals later (after the company had
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gone out of business) began to leak. The chemicals spread for miles
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killing off plants and causing cancers and deadly diseases in humans.
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Included in these wastes was a chemical called dioxin... one ounce of it
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used under the right circumstances was enough to kill off everyone in
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living in Toronto.
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One of the most popular places to dump toxic wastes is in the oceans.
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People figured that the oceans were so huge that garbage would just
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"disappear", and sink to the bottom. Well, they were wrong. Chemicals
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have turned up in dead whale bodies and dead fish in high enough
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concentrations to kill people. Medical wastes such as used needles and
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vials of blood (some carrying the AIDS virus) have washed up along the
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Atlantic coast and in one of the Great Lakes. Mutated and disfigured fish
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as well as other water animals have washed up dead or been caught by
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fishermen. The list of stories goes on, and it's still growing.
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Canada and the USA have created laws and regulations to try to stop the
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illegal dumping of toxic wastes and the destruction of our environment. The
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US has created a multi-billion dollar fund called "SuperFund" to try and
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clean up areas that have been contaminated. Canada is also working along
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those lines. The government has made a prioritized list of recognised
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hazardous dump sites, and is forcing the company that owns the land to pay
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for the clean-up of the area. If the company no longer exists, or the
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exact origin of the waste is unknown, the government will pay for the
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clean-up.
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Some toxic wastes can actually been turned into something useful, or in
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other words 'recycled'. For example, several kinds of metals can be
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recycled. Lead and silver (both are heavy metals, which are classified as
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toxic wastes) are both recycled and used again. About ½ of the lead used
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in the country is recycled, and about ¼ of the silver is recycled.
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Other toxic wastes can be chemically 'transformed' into new products.
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This is done by adding chemicals to the waste, which causes it to change
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into something new. Philadelphia and Chicago transform sewage sludge into
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fertilizer, which is put to use on farms.
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A huge pile of toxic waste looms over Canada. This waste is not the
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product of some Natural disaster like a tidal wave or a hurricane. It is a
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man-made pile of deadly garbage that threatens our very existance. Who is
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responsible for this pile? The answer, is 'us'. We are the people who buy
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the cheap food which was grown with the help of chemical pestisides. We
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are the people who demand the electricity created by the nuclear power
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plants. We are our own worst enemies. Pogo, a comic strip character who I
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learned about last year in english once said... "We have met the enemy, and
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he is us."
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