Littering/Possible Solutions

                                          Ways on how to avoid littering

• When you see trash on the floor pick it up!(:
• Try and get your friends to voluteer and clean the roads
• Make stuff biodegradable before you throw it away
• Have a "no smoking" policy or allow smoking only in designated areas.
• Dispose of waste properly.

Litter can be picked up by volunteers or by paid employees. Hiring people to pick up litter can cost a business, park, or school a great deal of money. More and more public beaches, parks, open-air shopping malls, and college campus are trying to concentrate cigarette butt litter by requiring smokers to use only designated areas. get your friends to help you pick up trash off the beach and streets one day. Start a funraiser where you can collect the most litter. Theres many way but you yourself should not litter!<3

By: maddie sica(: sarah gannon:p kaitlyn wimpey<3 and maddie bonawitz:D

Littering Statistics

According to littering statistics, it appears as though a large percentage of the population feels as though the world is their garbage can as well as their ashtray. Litter in your surroundings is a highly important issue because it doesn't just affect the Earth but also your health, family, pets and future generations. Littering is not only for making ugly environments but it also effects and destroys our environment.

                                                 Shocking Littering Statistics

• 75% of Americans Admit to Littering within the last 5 years
• People who eat food from fast food restaurants are some of the most frequent litterers
• Litter that is dumped in certain areas can stunt plant growth
• Every year, millions of fish, birds and animals are killed from consuming or getting tangled up in litter with the biggest culprits being plastic bags and plastic six pack rings
• Litter carries germs that are quickly and easily spread to humans through rodents
• When litter is dropped in the streets, it travels into waterways through storm water systems
• Men litter much more than women, even if there are garbage bins available
• 81 percent of litterers admit that higher fines and stricter laws would stop them from littering

Littering

       Litter consists of waste products such as containers, papers, and wrappers which have been disposed of without consent. Litter can also be used as a destruction to the world. To litter means to throw litter onto the ground as opposed to disposing of it properly. Throughout human history, people have disposed of unwanted materials onto streets, country sides and remote places, unpunished.

       Litter can harm the environment in a number of different ways. It is a breeding ground for disease-causing insects and rodents. Its "ugliness" damages the appearance of scenic environments. Litter is mostly cause by humans that are lazy. They don’t feel like walking to a trash can and throwing their trash away so they just drop it on the floor. Littering is bad for the Earth and people need to realize that!

H20 Pollution Possible Solutions

     In the United States, the Clean Water Act was written to completly put an end to all dumping of pollutants in the water. The law has not been that effectice in many areas, but in other locations it has recieved goals. Since the Clean Water Act, other legislation has been enacted as well. Now, eleven different federal government agencies and 21 federal government programs all monitor the quality of  water and regulate polution.
 

    
     The world has spent tremendous sums of money trying to clean up water.  From 1972-1990, the US spent over $250 billion.  Many non-governmental projects are also being carry out in an effort to clean up the water.  Industries are beginning to reduce the amount of chemicals they dump into water, and environmental groups are participating in cleanup projects. To keep the water from being polluted we could enact new laws, make items bio-degradable, and volunteer to clean the water in free time, or pick up trash when you see it.

H2O Statistics

• 40% of America's rivers and 46% of America's lakes are too poluted to fish, swim, or mantain an aquatic life. 
• Every year, one American produces over 3285 pounds of hazardous waste.
• Polluted drinking waters are a problem for about half the world's population.
• Each year there are about 250 million cases of water-based diseases, resulting in roughly 5 to 10 million deaths.
• 1.2 trillion gallons of storm water, industrial waste, and untreated sewage are discharged into US waters yearly.
• The Mississippi River- which drainsthe lands of nearly 40% of the continental United States- Carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year. The resulting dead zone in the Gulf each summer is about the size of New Jersey.

H2O Pollution

          Water pollution is the effect that humans leave on water bodies, pollution is usually with waste products. This includes chemicals in water, bacteria in water, and other stuff such as acidity or conductivity. Water pollutants also include herbicides, bacteria (sometimes from food processing waste), tree and plant debris from things such as logging, fuels, detergents, chemical waste, fertilizers and many more.

          Usually, water pollution begins in streams and rivers which make their way to an ocean. In these streams and rivers, small algae called plankton are 'infected' by the polluted water. This also affects the food chain and, as such, plankton aren't the only wildlife affected. For example, a small fish might eat the plankton. Then as the food chain continues and that fish is eaten by a larger one, perhaps going up to a bear or bird, the larger creatures are affected by the pollutants in the smaller ones they consumed.