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MCDONALD'S CORP. AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

to incorporating recycled materials into packaging, to sustainable food practices4. The most recent sustainability report focuses ...

The Impact of Climate Conditions in the San Joaquin Valley

produced in this shallow layer, but they usually disappear at night because the rate at which they are removed is greater than the...

Air Pollutants and Their Impacts

its thickness in accordance with where in relation to the earth it is measured. The ozone layer is thinnest over the equator and ...

Reaction: “When Smoke Ran Like Water”

had disastrous results: all of her family members have (or had) respiratory or cardiac problems, along with most of the rest of th...

China's Water Pollution Challenge

the incidence of "infectious diseases and cancer" (Kim, 2007, p. 120). It has been asserted that the water challenges facing China...

Educational and Technological Solutions to Air Pollution

and to adhere to a policy of corporate social responsibility. Without laws and legislation enforcing environmental standards, ther...

Green Buildings and Sustainable Design

The built environment has a significant impact on general ecological environment, causing damage and pollution with the construct...

Sustainable Society, The Problem of Pollution

suitable for use in the pollution exclusionary clause on standard liability insurance. This definition of pollution identifies it ...

The Environmental Performance of Three Different Types of Light Bulb

the choice which is deemed to be the most polluting and forcing the use of the alternatives; compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and ...

Overview of Sub Saharan Africa and Its Conditions

urban residents lived in slums" (African ministerial conference, 2005). This means that almost two-thirds of the African urban po...

3 Questions Regarding Economic Issues and Problems

convenience" (Thomas PG). For example, there is no question how the concept of Electronic Funds Transfer, which has been in...

Literature Review on Mercury and Air Pollution

priorities since it affects people of all ages and classes. Unfortunately, ridding the world of mercury air pollution is no...

Volvo's Environmental Record

Looking at this from an ecocentric paradigm the motivation may be questionable, but the fact remains Volvo had an extremely good r...

Geographical Aspects of Los Angeles County's Pacific Palisades

should disturb the essence of the idea. It is the same with architecture" (Levy, 1997, p. 69). Organization of the Eames H...

US Water Pollution

factors may complicate how successful efforts are at true pollution control. Nonpoint sources are much more difficult to monitor a...

Environmental Sustainability Challenges

well outside of the southeast province where it had contained capitalist pursuits beginning in 1979. The consequences for the res...

Quality and Groundwater Hydrology

septic tank (domestic treatment system) with very specific conditions, including the existing of six meters of gravely till overly...

Profit Created by Preventing Pollution

by the company in order to protect the environment. The projects recommendations for environmental measures saw 72% which had a pa...

India and the Harmful Effects of Globalization

had been deemed traditional. Many people around the world do not like American culture and it is hard to argue that this newfangle...

Problems and Solutions for the Air Pollution Issue

being. While nuclear accidents are extreme situations, everyday life provides a myriad of pollutants in the immediate environment....

Marine Life, Ocean Pollution, and Other Human Environmental Impacts

the sea to realize this answer. III. MARINE LIFE DAMAGE Of all the environmentally diverse life forms on this planet, the oceans...

China's Pollution Problems

this cannot be good for Chinas economy. After all, these measures are expensive and pollution costs nations a lot of money to eith...

Morality, Politics, and Ecology

substances that will remain in the soil for many future decades. Current EPA findings indicate that even the most sophisticated o...

China and Environmental Sustainability

death of Chairman Mao has proved to be economically successful, but the environment has suffered at the hand of economic developme...

Consequences on Ecological Resource Overspending

terms of its fragile environment, humanity is on a collision course with disaster. It is not enough to warn people, impose econom...

New Businesses, the European Union, and the IPPC

by the relevant regulatory bodies in each country. The approach is different in each country due to the principle of subsidiary. T...

Herbal Medicine and Environmental Pollution

the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...

Air Transportation Environmental and Regulatory Issues

pages when in the fall of 1988, the terrorist attack on U.S. Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland became at the time "the worst sec...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Examination of the Disease Leukemia

However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...