The Impacts Of Change On Our Environment

Consider the impacts on the environment of changing new trees, lumberyard scraps, and recycled paper products into pulp and pulp into paper and paper products.

Is this process causing more damage to the environment than helping it? Explain how and provide details.

What is the process that is involved in changing new trees into pulp and pulp into paper products? Is it harmful to the environment?

Are we really saving trees by recycling paper?

http://sciencefocus.com/qa/recycling-paper-bad-environment
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/7447
http://www.cwac.net/paper_industry/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleaching_of_wood_pulp#Environmental_considerations
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5731899_chemicals-used-paper-recycling-mills.html

Consider the impacts on the environment of changing petroleum into plastic, and plastic into everyday items such as rulers and soft drinking bottles, some of which end up in landfills and some of which are recycled into clothing rugs.

What is the process that is involved in recycling these products? What are the types of changes? Explain the details involved.

Does recycling these products cause more damage to the environment than good?

What are some new items that these materials are being recycled into?

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=oil_home-basics

What are the impacts that chemical and artificial food preservatives have on humans?

What are the chemicals we should avoid?

Where else can we find these chemicals being used aside from in our food?

What are some of the better alternatives in food preservatives? List examples.

How can we replace the artificial and chemical preservatives that are being used?

http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/preservatives.html

http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/articles/harmful-preservatives.html

http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/articles/food-additives.html

Recycling paper, cardboard, plastics and organics can keep materials out of landfills for a longer period of time but is the recycling process worth the harm it does to the environment?

Describe in detail the process that plastic and paper undergoes in a recycling plant?

What types of chemicals are being used in the process of recycling plastics and paper?

By recycling paper are we really saving trees?

What sort of harm do recycling plants do to our environment?

 

http://www.kstatecollegian.com/recycling-process-is-harmful-uses-toxic-chemicals-1.1574731

http://www.livestrong.com/article/159591-the-negative-effects-of-recycling-paper/

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/74374.aspx

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/06-when-recycling-is-bad-for-the-environment
http://sciencefocus.com/qa/recycling-paper-bad-environment
http://www.ehow.com/list_7281370_chemicals-used-recycling-steel.html