Essays on Littering

Littering is trash, such as paper, cans, and bottles, that is left lying in an open or public place. About 75% of Americans have admitted to littering within the past two to five years. Littering is one of the MAIN reasons our sewers and drains get clogged up and affect our water and how it…

Hazardous waste site: No Littering Dumping toxic waste kind of is a very serious issue when it literally comes to the environment. Not only actually is it fairly bad for the environment, but it’s for all intents and purposes horrible for us and actually other animals as an entirety, contrary to popular belief. The effects…

Pollution means the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. Basically it means how you treat your world. Like it’s up to us how we treat it because this is our world and if we treat it bad then we will get sick. Did you know that greenland ice is…

There is a floating island twice the size of Texas. What is it? A mass of litter and garbage. Litter and garbage contamination have been an issue for quite some time, but it started to become more than just a minor issue in the 1950s. “USA Today states that the mass was first discovered in…

It’s not ok to suggest that we don’t care about our environment, by littering, we are royally screwing up. Litter can secretly destroy our health. Plastics and other garbage pieces contain highly toxic chemicals, pesticides, and dioxins. If waste sits in water it spoils the quality and the contaminated water evaporates, so whatever was in…

In the city of Chicago, foam to-go boxes could be banned, and single-use plastics could be restricted at Chicago restaurants under a municipal ordinance proposed aimed at reducing plastic pollution. The “Plastic-Free Water” ordinance introduced by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Finance Committee Chairman, Scott Waguespack, would give restaurants carryouts and to-go orders until Jan. 1, 2021,…