Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The largely African-American community that lives on Eno Road is surrounded by garbage dumps, landfills, and three toxic waste sites. Residents were recently informed that for the last decade they've been drinking tap water with levels of TCE that are twenty-four times higher than the maximum level deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. For ten years water laced with TCE has been leaching into the groundwater from those nearby landfills and ending up in Eno Road residents' coffee cups and water glasses.
There are many, many other Eno Roads. |
David Steinman
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 Imagine the clarity of our skies and purity of our landfills with nanodiodes in our solar collectors.
Moving from the minutiae of nanotechnology to the grossly visible metal mammoth steam engine, a GE-designed hybrid locomotive uses less fuel and produces fewer toxic and greenhouse emissions than today's current crop of locomotives, and that's another market advantage and real sales leverage. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| It is difficult to locate that halcyon land where toxic waste sites, nasty landfills, dry-cleaner TCE spills, and PCB-laced soil don't linger nearby—which is part of the reason why it is so hard to prove cause and effect between toxic waste and any disease cluster. So much toxic waste exists everywhere, how can we definitively compare what autoimmune-disease rates might be in a pristine area with those in a highly contaminated area when such clear-cut lines rarely exist in the cities and suburbs where we live? |
Andreas Moritz
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 Plastic seeps into the ground water from landfills; and rivers and streams carry them to the seas and of, course, back into our bodies through the water we drink and the fish we eat. To make a difference, drink only filtered water and try to use glass, ceramic, wooden, stainless steel or other natural containers and utensils whenever possible.
3. Kidney Stones
The kidneys truly are the body's "master chemists. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We dump on this earth with landfills, and what we do to the rivers and streams in this country is appalling, but obviously you believe in living in harmony with it.
Wolfe: Ultimately, to change and transform the planet, we have to create economic incentives and economic methods of manufacturing that are environmentally friendly, and that entice people into those things. When you're running a big operation and you know your competitor has this technology that's cheap and efficient, but it's trashing the planet, and you don't have it, then you're going out of business. You're kind of stuck. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Louis Post-Dispatch wrote, "The alternatives include building an incinerator, burying the animals in landfills or hauling them to another incinerator or rendering plant at a cost to taxpayers of tens of thousands of dollars next year."9 Millstadt is not the only rendering plant in the area. At least two more are located in close proximity to this plant but as of this writing I have not been able to ascertain if these other plants accept dogs and cats for rendering. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| For ten years water laced with TCE has been leaching into the groundwater from those nearby landfills and ending up in Eno Road residents' coffee cups and water glasses.
There are many, many other Eno Roads. In 2002, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and its partners prepared public-health assessment documents for 122 toxic waste sites. Of those sites, 28.5 percent were found to be leaching contaminants into the community, posing a public health hazard. In another 2002 assessment, ATSDR estimated that more than 1. |
Devra Davis
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 Most tobacco companies had begun using what once was considered scrap pieces of tobacco stems formerly used for landfills and blending this into their cigarettes, along with the fine leaves of tobacco.
Using tobacco scraps in cigarettes proved to be useful on several fronts. It was cheaper to use something that had previously been thrown out. But it also turned out that smoking machines, used to measure amounts of tar and nicotine by the Federal Trade Commission, found that cigarettes which used what was later called reconstituted tobacco looked healthier. |
David Steinman
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| Turbines at three West Texas wind farms harness the wind to supply pollution-free energy. Two landfills, one located just outside Austin and the other located near San Antonio, collect methane produced by decay to generate electricity. It fulfills every idea of what it is to stop being toxic. www.amd.com
Intel
The World Economic Forum ranked Intel eighteenth among the 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the world in 2 004.10 The company's progress since then has been consistent with improvements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
| When that happens, our waste paper ends up in landfills despite our best efforts to reuse it. On the other hand, if our used paper could be made into new food containers, we'd make giant leaps and bounds toward more fully closing the recycling loop." 41
Who would have thought that having a latte at Starbucks was an example of green patriotism? Meantime, what about your cereal? The Kellogg Company, of Battle Creek, Michigan, uses more than 2 billion Kellogg's packages a year that display the "100% Recycled Paperboard" symbol.42 According to Tony the Tiger, that's "grrreat! |
| The efficient use of postconsumer paper waste closes the circle of recycling and also helps reduce our need for landfills, improving our community environment and health.
Among those products meeting federal standards are those from Office Depot and Staples, plus the following companies:
Aspen Xerographic?(Boise Cascade) Colorsource?(Unisource) Encore 100 (New Leaf Paper) 100% PC, PCF Envirographic?100% PC (Badger Paper Mills, Inc.) 100% PC, PCF
Envirographic?Bond/Offset (Badger Paper Mills, Inc.) Eureka!?30% Recycled PC (Georgia-Pacific) Eureka!? |
Jack Challem
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 Granted, people pay a premium for bottled water, and the empty bottles fill landfills (if you don't recycle them). But in terms of your health, nothing could be better than simple water.
The research on coffee and diabetes risk is contradictory. Nearly all of the studies showing that coffee either increases or decreases the risk of developing diabetes have been observational, not controlled, so other variables may have influenced the findings. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Water supplies must originate from somewhere, but those sources are becoming infected with pollutants from a variety of places—power plants, factories, septic systems, sewage spills, waste disposal sites for hazardous materials that sink into the groundwater, animal feed lots, landfills, acid water runoff from mines, disposal wells, land disposal of sludge, spray irrigation, buried storage tanks and pipelines, and even from us dumping things down the drain like cosmetics and unused drugs. This list goes on and on. |
Dawson Church
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 In addition to the financial waste, burgeoning bureaucracies, and unneeded medical tests, procedures, and prescriptions, our landfills are overflowing in part due to the huge volumes of medical waste generated by the large number of disposable objects used in treatment and diagnosis (and their sterile packaging). Their bio-toxicity is also an added hazard to our water supplies and to those who handle this waste.
Fortunately, the field of Ecologically Sustainable Medicine (ESM) has developed, complete with a journal. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Presently, both these sources are becoming more and more polluted as toxic chemicals, acid rain, raw sewage, agricultural herbicides, pesticide runoff, chlorination, fluoridation, sewage landfills, and radioactive wastes are either dumped into or seep into them. One of the best-known examples of toxic water pollution to date is the infamous Love Canal, where according to the New York Times in 1984, thousands of tons of toxic chemicals were dumped, including 60 pounds of the deadly poison dioxin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They're not going to start up a business that has a side effect of creating landfills. They'd rather do nothing or they'd rather go live on a beach in Hawaii. That's what I'm seeing in the younger generation. I think what the older generation needs to do is create alternative business models that are cheaper but environmentally friendly.
Mike: Can you give out your web addresses again so people can find your information and find your products?
Wolfe: Well, I want to mention that RawFood. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste. Astonishingly, that's almost half the amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants each year. It only takes 4mg of mercury to contaminate up to 7,000 gallons of freshwater, meaning that the 30,000 pounds of mercury thrown away in compact fluorescent light bulbs each year is enough to pollute nearly every lake, pond, river and stream in North America (not to mention the oceans). |
Devra Davis
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| Each year, eighteen tons of supplies are kept out of the local landfills and more than $ 150 million of goods are shipped to more than seventy countries. Reducing costs of shipping wastes is but one part of the greening of medicine. As Poretto points out, "Those who are the stewards of the public's money and trust must abandon the thinking that there .is never enough money to do a thing right the first time, when somehow we always find money to fix the problems on the back end, where the costs are far greater. |
Alex Steffen
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 Brian Hayes's book is a loving hymn to the big systems that built the modern world: dams, strip mines, steel mills, water towers, feedlots, drilling rigs, freeways, cellular towers, sewage-treatment plants, landfills, bridges, tunnels, and ports. Full of huge, beautiful pictures (sort of engineer porn) and laced with chemistry and physics lessons, history, and amusing trivia, this book will turn you into an infrastructure geek. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Secondly, it creates an environmental hazard because we have all this old, used oil being disposed of all around the country, and a lot of it ends up in landfills, or even in just regular household garbage. Some of it ends up poured into streams or rivers. Some people just pour it down the drain. So we have a huge oil disposal problem in this country, which creates a negative environmental impact. That impact could be largely avoided by reusing the same oil we already have in our cars.
The environmental impact of throwing away a dirty filter is far less than throwing away five quarts of oil. |
| They'll actually buy it from filling stations or landfills that collect oil. They'll cart it off, and guess what these companies do with this oil? They run it through a very fine filter. They clean the oil and resell it back to industrial users. It's recycled oil, and it's nearly as good as the new stuff.
If you've been thinking all along that you have to change the oil in your car because the oil is wearing out, you've been conned. The truth is, all you have to do is clean your oil, and then you can reuse it again. So how do you clean it? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think about it: now instead of dumping toxic waste products into landfills where the chemicals leach into the groundwater supplies and get consumed by people, these toxic chemicals get consumed by people first, then they get flushed into the rivers and streams. It reminds me of the beef industry, where one of the USDA-approved feed ingredients for cows is, believe it or not, "chicken litter." (I'm not making this up.) Apparently, there's no good way to get rid of all that chicken excrement unless you feed it to cows. You can look this up on the USDA website if you don't believe me. |
| If they weren't selling this substance to cities, they would have to pay a lot of money to have it handled as an environmental hazard and buried in EPA-approved landfills.
Thus, it is illegal to take this fluorosilicic acid and bury it in the ground or dump it in rivers or streams in this country, but it is perfectly legal to sell it to cities that drip it into the water supply with the intended purpose of it being ingested by human beings. And those human beings, of course, eventually pass the fluoride through their bodies and directly into the rivers and streams. |
Alex Steffen
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| The process can turn gasified coal, natural gas, methane from landfills, and gas derived from biomass into synthetic diesel, gasoline, and aviation fuels. The resulting F-T fuels are high performing and clean burning, and can be used in blends or neat. |
David Wolfe
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 Eating raw fruits, vegetables and other plant foods is the solution to world pollution. landfills are filled with products directly or indirectly related to cooked and processed foods, such as: packaging, wrappers, bags, old stoves, microwaves, etc. One of the most startling revelations I experienced on this diet-path was that I stopped producing trash! My life has become more harmonious with the Earth.
By following this diet, you may one day find yourself in your garden or home planting seeds and growing plants. The home of the Sunfoodist is often surrounded with radiant plant life. |
Alex Steffen
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| In the process, they wire poor people, keep toxic computer parts from winding up in landfills, and build skills in local communities. as
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C. K. Prahalad (Wharton School Publishing, 2006) In The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, C. K. Prahalad challenges the notion that the private sector and development are mutually exclusive. Investing in services and schemes that help poor people help themselves out of poverty is not only a good use of profits, but it can be profitable in itself. |
| By salvaging and reusing many parts of the old buildings in constructing the new one, the architects saved their clients heaps of money, and diverted heaps of debris from area landfills. According to the USGBC's Cascadia regional report, the architects saved a total of C$140,000 (U.S.$125,470) from the project budget by making use of 80 percent recycled materials, from structural materials to furniture. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 As a component of many disposable consumer goods, cadmium eventually ends up in landfills, much of which is burned, releasing this toxic substance into the atmosphere.
The primary source of exposure for most individuals who do not work in a cadmium-based industry is from food sources. The average daily uptake has risen to approximately 10-30 ug. Many leafy plants absorb cadmium from the soil, especially when sludge-type fertilizers are used. Organ meats, such as kidney and shellfish also contain significant amounts of cadmium. |
Mark Schapiro
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 That waste comes from discarded computers, cell-phones, DVD players, toasters, refrigerators, clock radios, medical devices— most everything powered by electricity. Every engineer in the room was now being required to rethink the ingredients that enable their complex networks of circuits and chips to work. The Europeans had banned six of those substances —mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and two chemical flame retardants called polybromi-nated biphenyl flame retardants—from all electrically powered devices. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 People who live near landfills or certain industrial installations also may be chronically exposed to toxic chemicals.
Acute chemical poisoning can result from accidental ingestion of household chemicals (particularly by children) or taking improper or excessive medications.
Unless otherwise specified, the dosages recommended here are for adults. For a child between the ages of twelve and seventeen, reduce the dose to three-quarters the recommended amount. |
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