Essays on Environmental Pollution

INTRODUCTION

Economical and industrial development are two of the most important elements on the evolutional way for any country and nationality. However, it often happens so that people discover something new and hurl themselves into using it before making throughout estimations of potential risks and hazards. This is especially common if such newly discovered entity (an invention, or mineral, or a way to dig out minerals – this could be anything) is capable of making large sums of money: then there is no particular doubt of this entity becoming incredibly popular and exploited to the extent of being overused. To top ...

The Pacific Brands has four main stakeholders which include the employees, customers (community), suppliers and shareholders. The corporation has a talented team of employees working in various regions where it has business units. The employees are motivated thus enhancing efficiency in service delivery. The corporation has ensured motivation of the employees through creating a conducive working environment. Additionally, the company is unique in its production something that has been encouraged by outsourcing some of its services. This has led to the attraction of many customers for its products. Pacific Brands has also taken measures to reduce environmental pollution through ...

Ecological footprint refers to the impact of a person’s lifestyle or that of a community on the environment, which is expressed in terms of the amount of land necessary to sustain their natural resources use (Rosenberg, 1997). My results were 6.71, which means I need to reduce my ecological footprint even further with the right lifestyle choices. I realized that our lifestyles harm our environment more than we realize. The basic actions in our daily lives such as driving to school or eating meat have an adverse effect on the environment. If everyone had a similar lifestyle as ...

Introduction

Certain factors such as the need to conserve environmental purity as well as the increasing pressure on fossil fuels have prompted the increased use of alternative sources of fuel, renewable energy to be precise. Renewable energy has been cited as not only cheap to exploit but also the most environmentally friendly sources of energy due to the reduced instances of environmental pollution associated with such energy (Pasqualetti 204). Solar energy, for instance, has been largely exploited globally due to its free availability, especially along the tropics where it is abundant throughout the year. Despite the increased preference of solar ...

Introduction

Cigarette collection systems comprise of the major ways that several companies including Tobacco manufacturing industries that help as one of the strategies in managing effect of cigarette butts in littering bins that is currently a big challenge in urban areas. According to Riutta, (2012), it is imperative to address this topic of issues concerning cigarette butts in our daily city lives because of the high negative impact they have on our environment, and thus health being one of the leading causes of preventable deaths. According to health analysts, cigarette butts are made from a fibrous material that is essential ...

Contrary to a person, who can exercise their responsibilities directly, companies are inanimate bodies without such capabilities. However, the stakeholders of a company are able and supposed to undertake the corporate social responsibilities, which is vital to the sustainability of a company. According to Steve (20), a company has the responsibility of delivering quality products to its customers and protects the welfare of the society while complying with the laws and regulations of the government in which it operates. The ability of a corporation to adhere to its corporate responsibility significantly determines its level of achievement (Steve 133). It ...

A sustainable community is one in which regional ecological characteristics can be realized and can persist for many generations appreciating a healthy surrounding, better community life, and a productive economy. A city that is considered sustainable should be able to improve the well-being of its residents without affecting or causing harm to the natural world. Air contamination has emerged as one of the most critical problems affecting the realization of a sustainable community, especially in urban areas. My community, in particular, is a victim of this circumstance and strategies are being put forth to curb this problem. Air pollution ...

Article Review

Article Review

Graphical analysis provides a visual presentation of data (Terpening, 2011). The authors use boxplot for the graphical analysis. Box plots are used to show differences in the means as well as the dispersion for different groups (Rubin, 2012). In the study, the boxplots show the concentration of various mineral across the different location as well as the dispersion of the concentration for each group. The important features are the dispersion measures and central tendency measures. Dispersion is shown by range while the central tendency is shown by mean (Jackson, 2012). The graphs clearly show the means and ...

Introduction

Economics of Sustainability is the ability to maintain a distinct level of economic growth indefinitely. Even though economics have conventionally stated economy and the ecological systems as different fields, the economic aspects of sustainability try to view the environment and economy as incredibly interlinked multifaceted systems. It gives more information on how the economic portion of the integrated system is transformed to be sustainable. Economically, sustainability provides an establishment of actions to be done by the present people that will not weaken the predictions of the future people to enjoy levels of wealth, consumption, or utility (Huesemann 547). Sustainability ...

Executive Summary

The hotel industry is an important sector in any economy. An increase in the number of tourists often leads to growth in revenue. However, this increase often adds the amount of solid waste, a factor which is likely to affect the hotel industry negatively due to environmental pollution. Ineffective waste management practices have forced hotels to incur substantial expenses. Traditional practices of waste management have led to the dumping of waste materials on roadsides, landfills and in oceans leading to environmental pollution, health hazards, and acidification of soil. Hotels need to come up with effective waste management practices which ...

Recommendation Report

Tyrone T. Lewis Abstract Environmental pollution is a growing and enduring concern in New York City. Environmental pollution takes different dimensions. However, air pollution is particularly concerning with statistics from reputable bodies attributing it to premature deaths due to complications from respiratory diseases. Partnerships between the city authorities and community and volunteer groups have seen the implementation of programs and initiatives aimed at reducing the environmental pollution in the city. However, many of these programs are not sustainable because they fail to address the human aspect as a contributor to environmental pollution, and also as a resource towards the ...

Introduction

Much recent publicity surrounding climate change has focused mostly on global warming, but little direct correlation has been given in the media with regard to the impacts that environmental pollution has on climate change, and also on human health. Although studies of pollution and the environment have been carried out since the time of the Industrial Revolution, it only relatively recently that attempts to measure environmental on a global scale have been undertaken. Environmental pollution is a major cause of global concern, not only for the effects that it has on the physical environments, but also for its potential ...

Abstract

Tourism has raised major concerns with regards to environmental pollution due to its rapid growth and development. Sustainable tourism has therefore, become the best way to ensure the coexistence between tourism and its environment. In this paper I discuss the initiatives that are being undertaken to reduce impact of tourism to the environment. I conclude with emphasis on the need for such initiatives to be promoted.

Introduction

Tourism has over the time been ranked as the most profitable economic activity in the world. It is a very large industry that attracts many forms of investments that in turn leads to ...

1st Assignment

Q1 Answer Both videos talk about the challenges of supply and value chains and solutions that will foster future success. There are various challenges addressed in both videos that influence supply chains negatively. For instance, government intervention is one of the key challenge facing the chains. Government regulations keep on changing every time thus pressurizing the manufacturers and other stakeholders in the chain. For instance, the government is ever changing regulations environmental pollution calling for the stakeholders to meet the standards. Meeting such standards is a great problem to the supply chain stakeholders. Other key challenges affecting the chain ...

Abstract

Environmental pollution is among the hotly debated topics in the field of environmental studies. Contamination of this kind ranges from that of water, soil, and air. Industrialization and large organizations have been reported to be the primary sources of pollution across the world. Chevron, a leading multinational energy corporation, has in the recent past been accused and charged for heavy soil and water contamination through oil spills. Such environmental pollution has substantial consequences on the human health, safety, and well being. Van Duzer et al. (2015) assert that one of the most affected nations through the company’s activities ...

Business Final Essay

Abstract Global warming is a serious issue that is facing the world today. Despite the tireless efforts put across by various nations to reduce the effect, it remains an issue to be addressed urgently. Many scholars have conducted research with an aim of determining the causes of global warming and have concluded that it is subject to environmental pollution by human beings. Human beings actions such as cutting down trees, burning forests, industries gas emissions, and emissions from vehicle exhaust fumes to the environment are some of the main human actions that accelerate the issue of global warming. This ...

Introduction

Over the course of the last few decades, global pollution has overwhelmingly been on the rise. As years go by - the humans' way of thinking evolves. Hence, the technological aspect of life keeps on advancing rapidly at the expense of contaminating our planet. Similar to other elements associated with human life, the natural environment is also undergoing a continuous change. There is the unchallengeable need of developing knowledge of the issues that characterize this change. The modern world is experiencing an increase in the natural calamities and varying weather patterns. These changes are primarily associated with the environmental ...

Materials Extraction

These batteries consist of heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, zinc, and nickel, which are environmental pollutants. Hence recycling them instead of incinerating them together with household waste saves our environment. These valuable metals are recovered during the process of recycling and consequently, save energy by minimizing the use of raw materials. Several materials are extracted from the used batteries and are used to manufacture new ones. Manganese dioxide, which is normally used to catalyze the reaction that produces oxygen from hydrogen peroxide, is contained in the zinc carbon cell. Dry batteries also contain metallic zinc, which is usually ...

The rapid rate of industrialization today has caused the world to develop some environmental concerns. China, one of the most populated countries in the world, has had fast hand experience of these problems. Due to heavy machinery use and the nation being the world's leading source of environmental carbon-emission, health concerns have been reported and a number of threats documented. This essay is going to discuss the various aspects of environmental pollution such as the causes, effects, how big the problem is, and how these concerns have been addressed. Air pollution is one of the critical environmental concerns in ...

Impacts of Pollution on Wildlife

Introduction Impacts of pollution on wildlife has been a controversy and a contradicting issue since it has been experienced in the world and specifically in the united States of America for a long period of time. There are environmental laws which are hard on some manufacturing and production industry in North America and this makes them to be held responsible of various wildlife cases. The environmental laws in the United States of America have enacted endangered species Act in which it is a general rule which has held several companies responsible of the reduction of Wolverines in Montana glacial ...

Executive Summary

In the year 2008, Boffi was considered to be among foremost companies of Italy in the production of the high-class kitchens with a combined turnover of around seventy-one million euros. Boffi Spa won the award in kitchen sector named "Compassod'Oro", which was a significant design award given by “Italian Industrial Design Association” to the companies and the products that eminent themselves for design philosophy and hard work. At the very beginning, Boffi was just a gigantic dream that emerged from a small laboratory; after seventy years of its foundation, product lines of Boffi were dispensed in more than sixty ...

Introduction

No doubts, materials, and material engineering have remarkably advanced the world in unimaginable ways. One would wonder what the 21st-century world would have been without high tensile strength materials, the state of the art technologies employed in the construction of airplanes, ships, and cars, technologies in the construction of bridges structures, top notch houses, and towers, to mention a few. Nonetheless, these innovative technologies also bring alongside some concerns. This study evaluates these concerns as they relate to material engineering.

Global Issues Relating to Materials in Engineering

Materials are relevant virtually in every field of engineering. The difference in materials depends on the engineering process involved. ...

Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock (National Geographic Society). It is one of the earliest occupations known to man and is till today, the most common occupation throughout the world. The importance of agriculture led early man to form permanent settlements and he was able to thus provide surplus food and livestock which soon became a prime mode of trade and transaction. The field of agriculture is a very vast one. It caters to food requirements of the entire world population. Innovative technology and development in the field of biotechnology ...

Urban population in Australia has risen by 11% to 14.3% since 2006 in mineral states such as Western Australia and Queensland. . This is despite the fact that the overall population in the country has only gone up by 8.3% . Traffic in most urban centers is congested and the leading cause of environmental pollution . There are limited parking lots and movement in urban centers is hectic and slow. Overall, transport in developed nations accounts for an average of 60-100 minutes in an individual’s day regardless of the mode of transport being used . This report will discuss the various planning ...

The problem

Living things cannot thrive alone but depend on each other for survival. Organisms (human beings, plants, and animals) must maintain a balance of nature to enable them to survive in different environments. However, some issues arise that cause environmental imbalance problems and affect the relationship between these organisms. Sharma defines environmental pollution as any adverse change in the chemical, biological, and physical characteristic of land, water, or air (Sharma 1). Environmental pollution is a major imbalance that greatly affects lives of these organisms. The problem of environmental pollution continues to raise many concerns in the world today. The rapid ...

Introduction

When looked at from a life cycle perspective, international shipping is an activity that causes enormous damage to the environment. Furthermore, international shipping is widely accepted since it’s the cheapest mode of transport, large manufacturers greatly depend on these shipping lines. Consequently, the wide use of shipping lines globally leads to massive environmental pollution not only during their operation time but also including the times these vessels are being made (Therivel, 2004). During their manufacture, large quantities of raw materials are being extracted from the environment; moreover, the processes involved also pollute the environment (Schryver, 2010). Guinée, ...

Introduction

Air pollution involves the introduction of particulates and other biological molecules in the atmosphere, resulting in the death of humans, other living things and damage to other resources such as crops. It involves the interaction of different pollutants which eventually affect the environment, health, and even the climate. These pollutants are emitted almost from all economic and social activities. The most cases of air pollutants are; Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulate Matter, Ozone, Ammonia, Non-methane volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide, lead, heterocyclic, chlorinated hydrocarbons, phenol and Methane amongst others. Emission of many air pollutants has decreased across Europe as ...

In 2008, the Thames River was a polluted mess. There were many untreated sewage, industrial waste, and garbage deposits which made the river not only an environmental nightmare, but a risk to public health. The primary souce of the pollution in the Thames river was caused by thousands of gallons of untreated raw sewage, which overflowed into the river from the overwhelmed sewage treatment infrastructure in London during storms and periods of heavy rainfall. Due to inadequate funding for and development of infrastructure necessary to prevent ecological disasters like the mass expulsion of waste water into the Thames, the ...

Introduction

Quoting Marchetti, Ausubel states, “Successful societies are learning systems” (Ausubel, 1995). Organized social learning and the development of our society caused increased technological progress. Since 1400, the number of technological and scientific discoveries has dramatically increased (Appendix A). In the twentieth century, it continued its growth. It was the time of scientific and technological advances that significantly improved our living but at the same time caused environmental problems, as the creation of the internal combustion engine became one of the major reasons of the outpouring of greenhouse gases. In the twenty-first century, we have something to do with them. ...

The tragedy of the commons is a problem where some individuals act according to their own self interest and against the common good (Friedl, 2016). These people try to get the most out of a resource without worrying about depleting it. As a result, other people end up suffering from such an activity. A good example of the tragedy of the commons is environmental pollution. The world is full of people who pollute the environment as they try to reap their own individual benefits. The long run effect is that the entire world suffers from the pollution. Global warming ...

A clean energy vehicle, popularly known as green vehicle, is a motor vehicle that makes minimum harmful effects to the surrounding environment in comparison to conventional vehicles, which use either gasoline or diesel as fuel for their internal combustion engines. Clean energy vehicle technology focuses on bringing spectacular improvements in vehicle technologies with the intention of reducing the dependence of running vehicles on nonrenewable energy sources like oil and improving the fuel efficiency. The areas in which the technology concentrates are: bio-fuels, energy conversion, clean combustion, electrification of vehicles, advanced batteries, lightweight materials integration of vehicle grid and analysis ...

Introduction

Today the world is grappling with several ecological crisis; the effects of Global warming, the degradation of the Tropical Rainforests in South America, the environmental pollution of Oil Sands development in the Canadian Boreal, and the ecological threats from Nuclear accidents exemplified by the recent Fukushima incident. However, the least talked about is Waste management, particularly the problems of Electronic waste, often referred to as e-waste. Not only is the e-waste crisis a massive problem in most developed economies, but it is also quickly becoming a global crisis affecting even to a greater extent the least technologically advanced nations. ...

Introduction

Training and development has become an important part of human resource development in any organization. In the public sector, training and development is important because it helps in maintaining and improving the capability and capacity of the sector’s workforce in delivering services. Right now, Malaysia is strategizing on achieving the goals, vision, and objectives that are stated in the country’s macro policies and development document. For this reason, the public sector is supposed to play a vital role in ensuring that it acts as the pace setter, regulator, strategic integrator, and facilitator in achieving the requirements of ...

Introduction

The relationship between the influence of water pollution and the economy is important since without the water, no life, no prosperity and no economic development can be achieved. The scarcity of water has been identified in various parts of the world and the predictions for the future are even more concerning. Most of the planet earth is composed of water, but only 3% of it is fresh and drinkable and therefore useful for the global population. There has been seen development of the techniques of desalination, but the prices are still relatively high with various other negative factors. The ...

REPORT EVALUATING THE ETHICAL CLAIMS OF MCDONALD’S

Abstract Ethical conduct is very important for any company which aspires to succeed in its business operations. It promotes the image and reputation of the company in the market. McDonalds being one of the key companies in the fast food industry is subject to ethical misconduct issues that affect its business operations. Although the company puts more efforts in promoting social responsibility for all the communities where it operates its business, it has many issues that go against the will of the community. This paper clearly shows that McDonalds is subject to ethical claims by its employees due to ...

Background Information

Compass Minerals International Company produces and sells minerals which may include salt, fertilizers and magnesium chloride. The company has its base in Kansas City and offers its products and services to customers in Canada, North America, and the UK. Also, the company also offers records management services to business in the United Kingdom. The business operates two segments namely salt and plant nutrition. The Salt segment focuses on mining and producing salt related products such as Magnesium Chloride and Sodium Chloride. On the other hand, the plant nutrition segment focuses on coming up with products such as sulfate of ...

Environmental laws and regulations are framed to protect the air, land and water environment as well as human health from adverse impacts of industrial or commercial activities. All capital ventures are aimed towards increased production and associated profits, while the surrounding environment is taken for granted. Results of such environmental devaluations are great disasters that lead to severe capital and human loss. Four different disasters that resulted from violation of major environmental laws or led to the development of new regulations are discussed below in detail.

Love Canal

Hooker Chemical Company acquired an aborted canal project area near Niagara Falls called ...

Introduction

Air pollution involves the introduction of particulates and other biological molecules into the atmosphere thereby resulting in the death of humans, other living things and damage to other resources like crops. It involves the interaction of different pollutants which eventually affect the environment, health and even the climate. These pollutants are emitted almost from all economic and social activities. The most cases of air pollutants are; Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulate Matter, Ozone, Ammonia, Non-methane volatile organic compounds, carbon dioxide, lead, heterocyclic, chlorinated hydrocarbons, phenol and Methane amongst others. Emission of many air pollutants has decreased across Europe as ...