According to Debi Kimball, author of Recycling in America, the plastics industry uses five of the top six chemicals that the EPA lists as most hazardous waste during the initial production of virgin plastics (Kimball 45). Since plastic bags are made from these nonrenewable resources they create more greenhouse gases and a higher dependency on foreign oil. When plastic bags reach recycling plants, they tangle up recycling units causing plants to close down for days so workers can manually cut them free from conveyor belts and/or machinery. However, disposing plastic bags in the trash leads them in landfills where they float to different destinations. .
As termed by Lisa Kaas Boyle, a writer for Plastic Pollution Coalition, plastic bags have infamously become known as the Urban Tumbleweed (Boyle). Once they have reached the landfills, aerodynamic plastic bags end up in trees, boarding streets and highways and ultimately in pipes and drains resulting in flooding. Their threat to our worlds oceans and its marine life is immense. More than a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from eating or getting entangled in plastic (Mieszkowski). Hungry sea critters, such as sea turtles are suffering greatly from mistaking plastic bags as plump jellyfish, one of their main meals. Imagine enjoying a meal and suddenly having a plastic tarp thrown over the table. This is a scenario animals on land and in the ocean are experiencing daily from this aerodynamic material. The journey a plastic bag takes after the short transportation of a gallon of milk or a single prescription is mind boggling. Students and shoppers should be educated on the dangerous potential these simple daily items have on our environment. If people knew the type of damage plastic bags were creating to our environment, maybe they would be more willing to switch to biodegradable or reusable bags, which would put a halt to the expansion of plastic bags.
These necessary items can include all or some of the following: a clean diaper, diaper wipes, powder, a soft cloth, cream , extra set of clothe, plastic bag, and a warm washcloth... Now at the next stage of our journey we can do one of two things. ... First put the soiled diaper in a plastic bag and tie shut. ...
Twenty five years ago, I had to come into the United States as an illegal immigrant the journey to get here was extremely hard and difficult. ... This is where my journey began. ... Once this was done we were then told to take them and to place them in a plastic bag. ...
The ongoing motif of the colour red is used to express beauty, the roses that fill Lester's dreary life represent structured perfection and contrasting freedom, and brief references to nudity, show the characters' journeys as they strip away their bitter disciplined lives, to the freedom and happiness that lurks beneath the layers. ... Accompanied by his adulterous and neurotic wife Caroline, his tormented teenage daughter Jane, Jane's enigmatic boyfriend Ricky, the bitchy cheerleader Angela and the sexually repressed Mr Fitz, Lester undertakes a journey, changes his...
There is no use for the male chicks in the egg industry, so they are discarded, either by getting gassed, thrown in the dumpster or put in a plastic bag or grounded up alive. ... They get transported to the slaughterhouse which is a long way from the farm, being denied food and water on their journey. ...
Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details a...
Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details a...
There are chapters dedicated to methods, dosages of medications, and uses of plastic bags over the head to suffocate the victim to death (Humphry 97-123). ... How would you feel if the victim with the bag over his head was your grandfather? ...
"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission of civilization"" (Edward W. Said, Orientalism). The term, "Orientalism," has been...
MA Curating Contemporary Design 2014/15 Title: "If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art?" Submitted by: Liu Shengnan + K1153705 Submission date: 07/Jan/15. Tutor: Anthony Burton/Donna Loveday Word count: 6126 words Essay Outline Title If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art? Introduction The definit...
