GreenGrl » fertilizers http://greengrl.org Taking Care of Mother Earth Thu, 24 May 2012 06:55:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 How can you revitalize the environment? http://greengrl.org/how-can-you-revitalize-the-environment/ http://greengrl.org/how-can-you-revitalize-the-environment/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:26:46 +0000 admin http://greengrl.org/how-can-you-revitalize-the-environment/ I have a project about human impacts on the environment. Mine is on fertilizers which cause dead zones. How can u revitalize the environment from dead zones?

]]> http://greengrl.org/how-can-you-revitalize-the-environment/feed/ 2 Landfill Is Bad For The Environment: Would We Be Better Just Littering? http://greengrl.org/landfill-is-bad-for-the-environment-would-we-be-better-just-littering/ http://greengrl.org/landfill-is-bad-for-the-environment-would-we-be-better-just-littering/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:01:34 +0000 admin http://greengrl.org/landfill-is-bad-for-the-environment-would-we-be-better-just-littering/ Why not just throw our litter on the floor? It would eventually return to nature: decompose more quickly than Landfill. How is piling plastic bags full of rubbish, on top of thousands of other plastic bags full of rubbish in landfill sites better for the Environment?
(will take a few mins to download)
Explanations about how we process rubbish all the problems associated with it
and what may be done in future and all problems. There is no evidence to suggest
that landfill is not a problem. There is more evidence to suggest there are more
problems than we knew about.

Climate Change and Waste

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/dirty_truths.pdf

Climate Change and Stopping OVER Consumption
•Waste prevention -the best environmental option, avoiding resource use
•Reuse -reduces need for resources and manufacturing
•Recycling -reduces need for extraction and processing of new resources
•Composting -returns nutrients and structure to soils; displaces other fertilizers; sequesters carbon; and, in the case of anaerobic digestion, produces methane which can be used as a 100% renewable energy source.
•Then we must phase out the rest -the residual waste, which is currently landfilled or incinerated
–Phasing out residual waste is the right long term direction, both for resource efficiency and climate change.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/event_presentations/waste_and_climate_change.pdf

Biodegradeable Wastes Returning to the soil

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/way_forward_on_biowaste.pdf

Campaign Guide. This is old research but demonstrates current arguments. Simply states why landfill sites are not well managed.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/landfill_campaign_guide.pdf

Waste Stream and New Technologies and their problems (follow links within)

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/new_waste_technologies.pdf

anaerobic digestion

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/anaerobic_digestion.pdf

Why putting waste on the ground is a great idea (like in French Vineyards) where it is not even sorted before placing on ground.

Abstract gives sources Utilization of Urban Wastes in Crop Production

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-3568%2819710615%2921%3A12%3C561%3AUOUWIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

Stabilization of organic matter during composting.

http://www.woodsend.org/pdf-files/s.houout_CSU_vol13No1.pdf

Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Management Activities
By Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tP6BEJBUD_8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=France+Vineyard+refuse+mulch&ots=dJheQ62BXG&sig=HrBjTWbiQzmGCKWhiu0tcTCf_KM#PPA211,M1

Seastedt T R 1984 The role of microarthropods in decomposition and mineralization process. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 29, 25–46.

St John T V 1980 Influence of litter bags on growth of fungal vegetative structures. Oecologia 46, 130–132.

Stevenson F J 1986 Cycles of soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, micronutrients. John Wiley and Sons, New York, USA.

TSBF 1993 Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility: A Handbook of Methods. Second ed. Eds. J M Anderson and J S I Ingram. CAB, Wallingford, UK.
SO In the worst case scenario even if you do not compost just place the waste on the land, after all the organic material decomposes you are left with the plastics tins, glass, etc which does not biodegrade. This is already ‘presorted’ so it would just be a case of collecting up these materials for recycling.

Not looking like such as stupid idea is it now?

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a.sulfur oxide
b.carbon monoxide
c.hydrocarbons
d.nitrogen oxides
e.ozone
ab.all of the above
ac. none of the above

2.fertilizers which are used to grow crops are_considered pollutants.
a.never
b.sometimes
c.always

3.which of the fallowing is not a direct cause of breathing problems?
a.sulfur dioxide
b.nitrogen oxide
c.ozone
d.lead
e.particulates
ab.all of the above
ac.none of the above

4.why are most of our current energy sources not concidered as fuels for the future?
a.they dont produce enough energy to meet our needs
b.theres not enough supply
c.they cause pollution and health concerns
d.all of the above
e.none of the above

5.which does not represent kinetic energy?
a.water used to turn turbines
b.wind used to generate energy
c.steam used to run an engine
d.wood which will be used later to hear a house
e.all of the above
ab.none of the above

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