http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/politics/new-rules-planned-on-school-vending-machines.html?_r=1&ref=nutrition
Since childhood obesity has more than tripled over the past 30 years, people are looking in every direction to eliminate the bad food choices for children. Vending machines are a huge target, because studies show that kids eat about 50 percent of their daily food intake in school. With vending machines filled with candy, chips, cookies, and sugary drinks, there are many bad possibilities to intake. Some school districts question whether students would actually buy the healthy foods found in the school vending machines and school stores. Frequently, vending machines found with healthy snack alternatives are ignored, and kids bring snacks from home or buy them at local stores.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Current Event 3/21/12
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/on-our-radar-environmental-protest-in-moscow/
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/147506525/startup-converts-plastic-to-oil-and-finds-a-niche
A company in Niagra Falls has created a machine that turns plastics into efficient oil. Milk jugs, plastic bottles and grocery bags put into a machine to get vaporized and melted together. 90 Percent of plastics come out as oil, making the process highly efficient. The process works by rearranging the plastics hydrocarbon chains. Each barrel of oil costs about $10 to produce. JBI can sell it for around $100 through a national distributor.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/147506525/startup-converts-plastic-to-oil-and-finds-a-niche
A company in Niagra Falls has created a machine that turns plastics into efficient oil. Milk jugs, plastic bottles and grocery bags put into a machine to get vaporized and melted together. 90 Percent of plastics come out as oil, making the process highly efficient. The process works by rearranging the plastics hydrocarbon chains. Each barrel of oil costs about $10 to produce. JBI can sell it for around $100 through a national distributor.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Current Event 3/14/12
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30218-really-big-things-americas-landfills-video.htm
I found this video very interesting. I think it is really strange for people to spend money to line the ground like a pool, all to dump garbage in it. It looks really weird to prepare a 200 feet deep lined pool for trash to be dumped in, and then buried, and dumped on again. I never thought about how strange that really is. ALso, I don't understand how that is the most efficient way. Yes there is nothing going into the atmosphere..but we are burying garbage in a pool on the side of the road. I can't think of anything else, but I know that there has to be another better way to get rid of all of our garbage.
I found this video very interesting. I think it is really strange for people to spend money to line the ground like a pool, all to dump garbage in it. It looks really weird to prepare a 200 feet deep lined pool for trash to be dumped in, and then buried, and dumped on again. I never thought about how strange that really is. ALso, I don't understand how that is the most efficient way. Yes there is nothing going into the atmosphere..but we are burying garbage in a pool on the side of the road. I can't think of anything else, but I know that there has to be another better way to get rid of all of our garbage.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Current Event 3/7/12
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02gas.html?pagewanted=all
My article this week is titled, "Wastewater Recycling No Cure-All in Gas Process" written by IAN URBINA. As the need for natural gas increased, so did the need for water because drilling for gas involves pumping millions of gallons of water into the ground, producing contaminated water rising to the surface. So, instead of finding a way to get rid of the water, drilling companies are starting to realize that they can reuse and recycle the wastewater. Although this sounds great, some methods can leave behind salt and/or radioactive material which can be dangerous if they flow into waterways. Other people are selling their wastewater. Because of the high salt content, people are buying it off of companies in order to melt snow on roadways.
My article this week is titled, "Wastewater Recycling No Cure-All in Gas Process" written by IAN URBINA. As the need for natural gas increased, so did the need for water because drilling for gas involves pumping millions of gallons of water into the ground, producing contaminated water rising to the surface. So, instead of finding a way to get rid of the water, drilling companies are starting to realize that they can reuse and recycle the wastewater. Although this sounds great, some methods can leave behind salt and/or radioactive material which can be dangerous if they flow into waterways. Other people are selling their wastewater. Because of the high salt content, people are buying it off of companies in order to melt snow on roadways.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
February Break Blog
http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/plumbing/sewer2.htm
In the link above, there is a video of the show, "Dirty Jobs." In it, Mike Rowe takes on the job of a Septic Tank Technician. It shows how much physical labor actually goes into pumping out the Septic Tanks, and how the technicians use a flashlight and mirror to see into the septic tank to check if everything is functioning correctly. I found the next video even more interesting because Rowe goes into an actual sewage plant. Besides it smelling bad and looking gross, there are serious health problems that could occur while in the sewage plant. When the wastewater started rushing in, their hydrogen sulfide detectors when off. Hydrogen Sulfide paralyzes your senses, and then your breathing. Without the detector, they would pass out and drown. When it started to go off, they had to get out as soon as possible before the hydrogen sulfide started to take its effect on the two men. I found this interesting because I never realized that this job wasn't just dirty, but it was dangerous too.
In the link above, there is a video of the show, "Dirty Jobs." In it, Mike Rowe takes on the job of a Septic Tank Technician. It shows how much physical labor actually goes into pumping out the Septic Tanks, and how the technicians use a flashlight and mirror to see into the septic tank to check if everything is functioning correctly. I found the next video even more interesting because Rowe goes into an actual sewage plant. Besides it smelling bad and looking gross, there are serious health problems that could occur while in the sewage plant. When the wastewater started rushing in, their hydrogen sulfide detectors when off. Hydrogen Sulfide paralyzes your senses, and then your breathing. Without the detector, they would pass out and drown. When it started to go off, they had to get out as soon as possible before the hydrogen sulfide started to take its effect on the two men. I found this interesting because I never realized that this job wasn't just dirty, but it was dangerous too.
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