Prions Research Papers
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax's . About a couple of months ago I was watching this movie, and when I heard this quote I knew what I had to do. At first my paper was on the importance of Prions, but I lost interest in them, and I could not come up with a project for my hours, so I knew I had to change it. From Prions to the impact of human waste, and how important it is for one to reduce the amount of packaging products they buy. There were many factors that played a part of my switch. The movie The Lorax, a specific video on BuzzFeed, and the influence of Instagram. The most influential was the video in which a girl tried to live without producing trash
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There are multiple benefits that come from this application. It reduces our climate impact, the U.S. EPA has estimated that about 42% of all the greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the production and use of goods, including food, products and packaging. Reducing, reusing and recycling will conserve that energy and can drastically reduce our carbon emissions. It also conserves resources and minimizes pollution. Extracting raw materials from natural spaces requires huge amounts of energy, and causes pollution, whether it is logging a forest, mining for minerals or drilling for oil in the bay. Processing these materials requires more energy, and causes more pollution. Once they’re used, the goods are simply dumped in a landfill or destroyed in an incinerator. Which only makes the matters worse because incinerators let out toxic fumes that only go straight into the atmosphere, and will only continue to add to the ever-growing amount of carbon dioxide emissions. Dumping everything in a landfill sounds like wonderful idea, but that requires acres of land that must be cleared out for said trash. All of the habitats, and trees will be replaced with a landfill that will only collect garbage instead of life. Juxtapose to the zero waste approach which conserves natural resources and reduces the pollution from extraction, disposal, and manufacturing
There are multiple benefits that come from this application. It reduces our climate impact, the U.S. EPA has estimated that about 42% of all the greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the production and use of goods, including food, products and packaging. Reducing, reusing and recycling will conserve that energy and can drastically reduce our carbon emissions. It also conserves resources and minimizes pollution. Extracting raw materials from natural spaces requires huge amounts of energy, and causes pollution, whether it is logging a forest, mining for minerals or drilling for oil in the bay. Processing these materials requires more energy, and causes more pollution. Once they’re used, the goods are simply dumped in a landfill or destroyed in an incinerator. Which only makes the matters worse because incinerators let out toxic fumes that only go straight into the atmosphere, and will only continue to add to the ever-growing amount of carbon dioxide emissions. Dumping everything in a landfill sounds like wonderful idea, but that requires acres of land that must be cleared out for said trash. All of the habitats, and trees will be replaced with a landfill that will only collect garbage instead of life. Juxtapose to the zero waste approach which conserves natural resources and reduces the pollution from extraction, disposal, and manufacturing