RESEARCH

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What toxins do we interact with in our daily life? How can individuals and corporations adapt to improve environmental health?

I found that we are bombarded with many toxins daily, probably more than we might think.

Air:

smoke, fossil fuels, chemtrail residue

Water:

drinking water: chlorine, prescription drug residue, arsenic, bisphenol-A

Food:

antibiotics, hormones, GMOs

Beverages:

aspartame, sucralose

Prescription Drugs:

aluminium, mercury

Radiation:

x-rays, computers, hair dryers, electromagnetic radiation, fluorescent lighting

Ways individuals can lessen pollution:

Choose products that have less packaging and are reusable.
Shop with a canvas bag instead of using paper and plastic bags.
Buy rechargeable batteries for devices used frequently.
Plant deciduous trees in locations around your home to provide shade in the summer, but to allow light in the winter.
Buy green electricity-produced by low-or even zero-pollution facilities.
Connect your outdoor lights to a timer or use solar lighting.
Wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot.
Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120F.
Use low-VOC or water-based paints, stains, finishes, and paint strippers.

Corporations:

A first and common distinction is between sources of pollution: point sources, which are spatially and temporally defined such as a factory, and non-point sources, which are impossible to locate or confine such as household emissions (Auty, 1997). Only point sources can be effectively reduced by treatment of waste due to the possibility of regulation, whereas lessening the overall consumption will affect both point and non-point sources.

Ways for corporations to lower pollution

consumer and government pressure is necessary to develop company awareness of pollution issues
research into more sustainable methods of farming large amounts of food, such as ecosystem engineering or biomimicry

types of pollution: Many of the largest polluters come from the chemical, pesticide, oil refining, petrochemical, metal smelting, iron and steel, and food processing industries. All are major users of energy that produce large amounts of waste products and pollution. Other industries have less potential impact but are still considered highly problematic when it comes to pollution. These industries include the textile, leather tanning, paint, plastics, pharmaceutical, and paper and pulp industries.

fracking

water dumping