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  • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - A Primer  By : Mike Arms
    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area in the northern Pacific Ocean covering thousands of square miles that's estimated to contain as much as 100 million tons of plastic debris. It poses a grave danger to the ocean's ecosystem and inevitably affect us all as more and more ocean organisms ingest and are killed off by the plastic particles.
  • Unusual Sources of Household Lead Poisoning  By : kate whitely
    Some lead sources in the home you may not know about
  • Homemade Solar Panel for Free Energy  By : Henry Kiffer
    Have you finally come to the point where you are sick and tired of paying for your electric bill and wish that there was a better way to run your house? Well now that there is the homemade solar panel, there is a solution to go Off Grid and run your home on green and clean renewable energy. Now, you no longer have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars each year to the power company unless that is something you like doing.
  • The Future and Cradle To Cradle Recycling  By : Mike Arms
    Cradle to cradle recycling is a visionary approach to solving the problem of waste and pollution. It mirrors sustainability in nature, itself. This "thinking outside of the box" could very well become the "next industrial revolution."
  • How to Avoid Penalties for Not Containing Spills  By : Mistina Thomson
    Chemical spills can cost your company millions of dollars not to mention the bad publicity that results from suffering a spill. Every business wants to avoid the possibility of an uncontained hazardous material spill if at all possible.
  • Are Secondary Spill Containment Systems Sufficient?  By : Mistina Thomson
    Secondary spill containment is defined as trapping and collecting the hazardous material in a container that is above ground from which the material can be easily disposed of using SPCC sanctioned disposal methods.
  • Cheap skip hire  By : Anthony Cain Anthony Cain
    Cheap skip hire

    Getting the waste cleaned from your house is a big task and that is when hiring a skip comes in picture. It is a very convenient way of cleaning your house. The only worry when you decide to hire a skip is the vast difference in the skip hire costs. How do you know which one to hire?
  • Why Use Reusable Shopping Bags  By : Jason Hammil
    There are many reasons why you should use reusable grocery bags. Reusable shopping bags are eco-friendly and look great. They send a powerful message to other people, and they are starting to even be required at some places.
  • Light Pollution Destroys the Night Sky  By : Lucy Evans
    Although light pollution doesn't generally cause as much alarm as other issues such as the changing climate, there is an outspoken community of stargazers that feel this is an important problem that must be worked on and eventually solved.
  • JAPANESE KNOTWEED ERADICATION CONTINUES  By : paul molom
    Japanese knotweed is continuing to spread throughout the United Kingdom. Although attempts at Japanese knotweed eradication are quite intensive, weed control is still needed as the knotweed remains a significant problem.
  • The Permafrost Factor - End of the World Scenario Revisited  By : Sacha Tarkovsky
    40,000 years ago during the commencement of the ice age, the area of Western Siberia (and Alaska) permafrosted...producing a sort of flash frozen soil.

    All the carbon contained in it became inactive and trapped. This as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and methane. The worst part is, global warnming is melting the permafrost (at an alarming rate), and these greenhouse gases are entering the atnosphere and the conseqences for mankind could be disasterous.
  • Do Your Part – Computer Recycling Helps the Environment  By : Kausik Dutta
    With environmental issues taking center stage, more and more people are trying to do their part and be environmentally responsible. Most people know about water and energy conservation, but what a lot of people don’t know about is electronics recycling.

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