Essays on Toxic Waste

Whistleblower Protection Act

The major goal of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) of 1989 was to encourage private-sector employees to report the misconduct of a manager or other top executives. The WPA protects private sector whistleblowers against manager retaliations in the form of demotions, pay cuts, or termination. Under this statute, any disclosure of information will be protected if there is sufficient ground to justify that the whistleblower had a ‘reasonable belief’ that the information was true (Whitaker, 2007). A major component of this law is that whistleblowers are required to present sufficient evidences (documents and other) to justify their claims while ...

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Avco Environmental Case The situation that Chantale is involved in is rather troublesome for her as she faces ethical choice which may have rough effects on her life, however, other parties will also be affected by it. This case involves the following stakeholders – Chantale, the company Avco Environmental Service and the Environment Protection Agency. The parties who will be affected in this scenario are the local community and the hospital. Chantale is deciding what to do concerning the information that she recovered as well as the instructions received from her superiors, Avco Environmental Services are dumping toxic waste from ...

Whether by force of stereotypical perception or the prevalence of such interpretation I the political discourse, people have always perceived racism through the prism of economic and legal mistreatment of black people. However, people can maltreat their own fellow countrymen with skin color other than white by disposing of hazardous toxic waste in immediate proximity to their area of residence. It is disturbing how Americans exploit their own endangering their physical wellbeing. Since coming to surface in the 1980s, the notion of environmental racism has not lost its relevance for what is now 3.5 decades. While some US locations ...

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Essay

INTRODUCTION Toxic waste can be defined as ‘the byproducts of the industrial process”. As each industry produces some type of by product and some are toxic or poisonous to living things and the environment. The range in the hazardous conditions that they create can be measured as a range with some being very hazardous while others produce a smell or a nuisance. The hazardous wastes are of the most concern and many groups and organizations are watching and enforcing strict codes of conduct for punishment of companies that violate the laws. The Abidjan disaster is an example of the ...

An accident can be described as an undesirable event that could have been prevented, had the contributing factors to the event been identified and action taken to prevent it: these could be human factors, organisational factors, or predisposing factors. The same can be said of the events leading to the litigation sought by the residents of Woburn, Massachusetts in the USA. Approximately 50 years ago, the residents complained continuously of foul tasting waters (due to high concentrations of manganese and iron making it undrinkable), between the years 1964 and 1979, supplied by the municipal wells. The situation was further ...

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The issues of environmental racism and environmental justice are the two major implications which involve counter response to deliberate human actions of harming that environment which has vicinity of some racially segregated sections of the society. In United States, sources of most harmful toxic wastes from industries and other commercial establishments are dumped close to those low-income neighborhoods like African American, Latin American, and Native Americans Thus, the above-stated phenomenon stands as an example of environmental racism where impact of toxic waste dumps, industrial waste incinerators, chemical drains into rivers, etc. are deliberately channeled towards racially ignored segments like ...

1) Is the current growth rate of the human population sustainable? Explain, using the concept of carrying capacity. According to the current population growth trends and the state of the environmental impact that population growth is in, the human population seems to be growing faster than the environment can sustain, if the population trend does not even out. This is especially true of areas currently in drought, overpopulated, and areas that do not have quality soil, water, and air conditions needed for appropriate food production. For example, in largely populated cities, with little or no soil to grow food ...

Sustainable Development is a way of the human development that is based on the principle that our planet is finite. Sustainable development is a mode of using natural resources in a way that meets the human needs and ensures the sustainability of natural systems (including the environment), so that these needs are met by present and future generations. There are four main circles of sustainability: Economics, Ecology, Culture and Politics.

Slide 2 – Water Pollution

One of the most important trends of Sustainable Development is the increasing need to protect the water bodies (lakes, rivers, groundwater and oceans). Water pollution has a negative influence on all the organisms and plants living in the water. Lately, ...

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The earth is operating in specifically complicated but fully effective procedures that enable it to withstand lengthened time of being reused over and over by humans from one generation to another. For centuries, the earth has proven itself full of vibrancy; an evident element that leaves humans in awe as they discover procedures and natural systems that make the world ‘go round’. However, an alarming series of data has been collected by scientists and environmental experts that create a distinct source of concern for people living within the present conditions of development (Choi, et al, 2005). The existence of global ...

Business: The case of plant relocation

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ElectroCorp, the leading name in Automobile computer board making, has contacted our firm The Smith Consultants to propose recommendations on the plant relocation of Electrocorp. The company is going through tough situations, for which it needs a detailed research-based analysis. The issues are heavy production costs involved, the higher wages of the region that have now increased up to $15/hour and the environmental issues and its related costs. All these issues are affecting the profits of the organization that is bothering the stakeholders and the shareholders. ElectroCorp intends to shift its production facility to an offshore country ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

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This paper aims at identifying and elaborating the development and functions of the human placenta, an organ that supports growth and development of the fetus. The human placenta is a fetomaternal organ that supports the development of a growing embryo by providing nutrients and gas from the mother to the embryo. Notably, the human placenta facilitates nutrients and gas exchange between the fetus and the mother which helps in maintaining fetomaternal tolerance. The placenta can release metabolic products into fetal and maternal circulations and it also metabolizes various substances. It also protects the fetus against maternal diseases, infections, and certain xenobiotic ...

Sustainability in a changing environment

There are several issues that are critical in the running of a company or an organization. These issues determine whether the company survives in the current world and its competition or not. Different companies have different goals to achieve. These goals however are best planned when they include the plans of the society at large to avoid conflicts. The same case applies to the company of Monsanto. The company needs to reshape its style of play so as to avoid the conflict and critique that it is undergoing now. The changes that should be applied to the company’s structure ...

The stakeholders in the scenario are the fishes in the lake. Due to the increased and continuous toxic from the industries that drain in to the river and into the lake, the fish might be declared unsafe for human consumption. This is according to the report quoted in the newspaper from a scientist from the university and an environmental group is watching it. Another stakeholder affected in the proposed application of the new technology is the company. Due to its small budget, implementation of such a project will reduce its profits. Some ethical question asked is whether the companies should ...

Introduction

The Third World countries refer to the poorer and undeveloped countries in the world. Majority of these countries have extremely poor environmental conditions. Pollution is unrestricted in most of the Third World nations. The governments in these nations have not addressed the issue. Creating and enforcing environmental regulations would have negative impacts on the economy of the Third World Countries. As a result, many big businesses from the rich Western countries take advantage of the fact that they can exploit all the available resources and leave massive destruction of the environment. The businesses carry out their operations with minimum ...

Background of the Event

Pollution in College Point, New York happened as a result of landfills. Residential buildings in College Point in Queens, New York have been built on contaminated landfills. This was confirmed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and concerned experts want the area tested and cleaned up as reported by The Queen’s Courier in (Mimoni, 2010. All the dumping happened before the Clean Air Act was passed. The clean air act is a federal law that protects people from air pollution by regulating emissions. This law gave the EPA the power to set air quality standards and to ...