Posts Tagged ‘chemicals’

Your dad is driving you crazy. It seems that he doesn’t care about the environment at all. He doesn’t recycle, he runs the air conditioner constantly, and he puts chemicals on the lawn. What’s worse, he laughs at you when you tell him these things harm the environment. Then one day he tells you he bought you a surprise. He says he bought you a early birthday present. It’s a gorgeous, but gas guzzling, sports car.
Do you accept it? You know that cars are a major source of pollution. And you know that it’s important to conserve energy. Hello! We’re talking about your very own car.
Whatever you decide, you can be sure you’re not the only one facing this problem. These days, everyone struggles with the fact that everyday products can damage the environment. But what’s the solution? Should people give up things they want to save the environment?
i need a real good reason

what is a strategy to balance the need to conserve and protect the environment at a mine, with the need to mine minerals? :S
this may sound stupid >< , but i never learnt about mines before.. so i dont really understand much about them.. so how do the chemicals from the mines leak into streams?

I know it is often stated that disposable diapers are terrible for the environment as they take ages to break down, but what about the chemicals used and energy costs of cleaning cloth diapers? Which one is more or less polluting? Disposables that end up buried in landfills or cloth ones that create more carbon pollution in the air?

I’m performing an experiment in which used tire chemicals will be included in the subject plants water, and was wondering what plants would easily die from pollution.
Also, should I demonstrate this by planting a seed and watering it with only the poluted water, or use the water on an adult plant and look for an adverse reaction?

I am doing a project and I need some information on why solar panels are toxic to the environment both when manufactured and when thrown away. Details are good, chemicals would be nice.

thanks alot guys.

Boiling water kills most organisms, but how about chemicals and hormones? I don’t want to be drinking estrogen/whatever else people piss and flush into the water system after popping their pills. I already got rid of my plastic bottle drinking habits because of BPA and the environment, but the hormones/chemicals lurking in the water system get me paranoid. Help?

I am doing a science project.

(For those not so bright people out there, light pollution has nothing to do with climate change or chemicals or anything like that)

What damaging chemicals are we bringing into our society that cannot be disposed of and whose creation requires greenhouse emissions and chemical exposures that are on a much higher scale than we ever had before?

I am currently doing a research report on the science of e-waste. What kind of a textbook would help me out best – environmental science or ecology? I am looking for a book that explains HOW chemicals like mercury, lead, cadmium, along with plastics, affect the environment.