microbeads
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2016-04-20T14:20:07-07:00
Connections to Other Environmental Justice Events
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The connection to Love Canal, Reserve Mining in Silver Bay, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and Altgeld Gardens.
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2016-05-05T05:42:59-07:00
Climate refugees’ campsite is related to the Altgeld Gardens because of the squalid and unsanitary environment. This could be leading up to challenges of providing safe drinking water and food. With that said, campsites can be very crowded with little "room to sleep, bathe, or relax." Furthermore, with runoffs and floods, the campsite will mainly be wet and cold. Due to it, the campgrounds are full of spreadable health issues such as cholera, respiratory illness, skin diseases, malaria, and jaundice.
The chemical waste from the Love Canal will evaporates and produces chemical odor resulting in polluted gas in the atmosphere to the residents. The sea level rises forced families to relocate to bigger cities in Bangladesh. However, the bigger cities are already polluted from factories. Pollution and chemical wastes are risk factors for harming the environment and the people’s health. Asthma is one significant health concerns among climate refugees.
Then contamination of water from microbeads and sea level rises of salinity water result in the lack of food production and safe drinking water. Once microbeads enters the rivers, many fish will become contaminated because the fish cannot digest the plastic and it is unsafe to eat the fishes once it is contaminated. Microbeads are dangerous because they have the ability to absorb toxic chemical in the water. Salinity water makes soil quality insecure, and the freshwater animals will become endangered to local water. Both of the contamination challenged the government to find a solution that will filter out the microbeads and salt so the people and the animal can have potable water.
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2016-04-22T19:31:06-07:00
Microbeads: Tiny but Mighty Killers in the Great Lakes
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2016-04-25T09:22:12-07:00
The alarm starts blaring. You quickly roll out of bed and start the day. You shuffle to the bathroom where you wash your face with a nice exfoliating scrub. You then brush your teeth - minty fresh! You also reach for some of your other regular products - your face cream, some concealer, and other cosmetics. You want to look your best!
Your morning routine is very obvious. What may not be so obvious is what you are washing down the drain each morning. Did you know that you are actually rinsing more than just dirt and makeup? All of the products mentioned above contain a certain ingredient that makes them feel, taste, and look “better”. Microbeads.
Microbeads are small plastic beads within your very own personal care products. Their size ranges from 0.0004 to 1.24 millimeters. These microbeads are so tiny that they go right through our sewage system and into our ecosystems and water sources. Microbeads act like tiny sponges, absorbing any toxins that might be present in the water. This creates a highly toxic, condensed substance that is the perfect size to go unnoticed, be ingested by various fish and birds, and come full circle back to our plates.