Seven Questions: How to Clean up Toxic WasteadminForeign Policy
When you hear the word "toxic," you might think of hazardous waste or a substance that could make you physically ill. But in the workplace, toxic environments can also be detrimental to your health. Getty Images Toxic work environments are common in the United States. In fact, 22% o...
Toxic productivity is often a manifestation of negative feelings you haven’t addressed. To really stop the cycle, you need to identify the underlying thought or feeling that’s causing you to work so much. The goal here isn’t to make bad feelings go away. Rather, you want to learn how...
People should pay much more attention to e-waste. E-waste is a valuable urban mine(城市矿藏). The value of the metals, like gold and silver in the waste around the world, is amazing. And the metals can be reused. But if people throw them away, the toxic(有毒的)chemicals can get i...
Although the world develops much faster and better, the resources on the earth get fewer and fewer.In order to protect them,something must be done. Save water. Water is the source of life. No water, no life. So it's very important for us to do so.Not only should we protect drinking...
It’s much more likely that disposed plastic is buried or burned due to inadequate plastic recycling system. When incinerated, plastic releases toxic carbon dioxide. Across its lifecycle, plastic pollution disproportionately harms people of color and low-income communities who live near extraction, ...
Composting food scraps is a good start to tackling food waste, but turning the scraps into something delicious is even better. Image Credit:Marko Geber/DigitalVision/GettyImages In This Article How Much Food Are We Wasting? Upcycled Food Gives You More Nutrients ...
That said, let’s narrow down to how much wastewater is harming the environment. 1. Wastewater Causes Water and Habitat Contamination The most immediate effect of wastewater on the environment is that it contaminates the rest of the water. ...
How much gold is in a computer? With all those components having at least some gold and other precious metals in them, could you get rich dismantling and extracting them? Gold electrical contacts. Source: pxfuel pxfuel Probably not, at least not from one or two old PCs. ...
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