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Acid Jack
Did you know:
Lead acid batteries pose a potential threat to human health and the environment if improperly discarded. The two main components of these batteries are sulfuric acid and lead. Both lead and sulfuric acid can contaminate solid and ground water.
Admiral Netting
Did you know:
Nylon is plastic and it does not decompose. That means fishing nets lost in the ocean, called ghost nets, continue to catch fish for many years. Because of this, hundreds of millions of marine animals are killed or injured every year due to the fishing net pollution.
Agro
Did you know:
A major environmental concern associated with GM crops is their potential to create new weeds through out-crossing with wild relatives, or simply by persisting in the wild themselves. The potential for the above to happen is assessed prior to introduction, and is monitored after the crop is planted as well.
Atomic Shadow
Did you know:
A meltdown is considered very serious because of the potential for radioactive materials to breach all containment and escape into the environment, resulting in radioactive contamination and fallout, and potentially leading to radiation poisoning of people and animals.
Billy Mac
Did you know:
Too much growth hormone can cause gigantism in children, where their bones and their body grow too much. In adults, it can cause acromegaly, which makes the hands, feet and face larger than normal.
Bottlenose
Did you know:
Often times dolphins hunting schools of fish will become trapped when following that school of fish into a net. The fishing industry’s bycatch of unintentionally caught dolphins adds up to a staggering 4.1 million dolphins from 1950 to 2018.
Compost Corps - Bugsy
Did you know:
Many of the micronutrients in compost have a pesticide-like effect on garden pests. In turn, composting reduces our dependence on harmful chemical pesticides.
Deathmetal
Did you know:
Recycling steel requires 60% less energy than producing steel from iron ore. Recycling one car saves more than 2,500 lbs. of iron ore, 1,400 lbs. of coal, and 120 lbs. of limestone, The U.S. recycled nearly 11.9 million cars in 2011, supplying an estimated 15.5 million tons of shredded scrap.
Doctor Ooze
Did you know:
Some negative effects of dumping medical waste can be respiratory infections such as tuberculosis, streptococcus pneumonia, and viruses like the measles, all of which can be transmitted through improper disposal or outright illegal dumping of infectious waste.
Compost Corps - Fireball
Did you know:
Many people that don’t compost incinerate their yard waste. Burning yard waste can release the harmful chemicals found in fertilizers, weed killers and bug sprays into the air. Many of the chemicals can lead to health problems such as asthma.
Compost Corps - Kata
Did you know:
One of the biggest contributors of greenhouse gases, specifically methane, is our landfills. If we composted the organic portion of our waste, we could drastically reduce those emissions.
Compost Corps - Lt. Green
Did you know:
Composting increases the quality of soil by increasing the amount of organic materials and micronutrients. Farms and gardens will thrive with the addition of compost.
Compost Corps - Recon
Did you know:
In many cases soil is too acidic for basic plants to grow properly. Adding compost to soil helps to regulate the acid and alkaline levels in your soil.
Compost Corps - Spora
Did you know:
Compost helps to reduce erosion by aiding the soils ability to hold water. Erosion leads to nutrient lacking soil and polluted water sources.
Compost Corps - Worms
Did you know:
Composting attracts many kinds of worms, bacteria's, birds, fungi and insects that are beneficial to the crop growing process.
Dr. Jackie
Did you know:
American hospitals create more than 5.9 million tons of medical waste each year.
Exabyte
Did you know:
E-waste represents 2% of America’s trash in landfills, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste. 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed worldwide each year. Cell phones and other electronic items contain high amounts of precious metals like gold and silver.
Lt. Filterberg
Did you know:
Cigarette butts cause pollution by being carried, as runoff, to drains and from there to rivers, beaches and oceans. Preliminary studies show that organic compounds (such as nicotine, pesticide residues and metal) seep from cigarette butts into aquatic ecosystems, becoming acutely toxic to fish and micro-organisms.
Frakk
Did you know:
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is revolutionizing oil and gas drilling across the country. However, without rigorous safety regulations, it can poison groundwater, pollute surface water, impair wild landscapes, and threaten wildlife.
Fukushima Dynamo
Did you know:
The products of nuclear fission have long half lives, which means that they will continue to be radioactive and therefore hazardous for many thousands of years.
General D. Straw
Did you know:
Most plastic straws are also not biodegradable and cannot be broken down naturally by bacteria and other decomposers into non-toxic materials. Most plastic straws simply break into ever-smaller particles, releasing chemicals into the soil, air, and water that are harmful to animals, plants, people, and the environment.
Geo-Monger
Did you know:
The effects of Global Warming can cause more frequent and severe weather. Higher temperatures are worsening many types of disasters, including storms, heat waves, floods, and droughts. This leads to higher death rates, dirtier air, higher wildlife extinction rates, more acidic oceans and higher sea levels.
Glass Ghost
Did you know:
The major environmental impact of glass production is caused by atmospheric emission from melting activities. The combustion of natural gas/fuel oil and the decomposition of raw materials during the melting lead to the emission of CO2. This is the only greenhouse gas emitted during the production of glass.
The Glow
Did you know:
Microbeads, if washed down the drain after use can end up in our rivers, lakes, and oceans. These tiny plastics persist in the environment and have a damaging effect on marine life, the environment and human health. This is due to their composition, ability to absorb toxins and potential to transfer up the marine food chain.
Green Anvil
Did you know:
Almost 69% of all steel is recycled in North America each year. More than paper, aluminum, plastic & glass combined. North America’s average steel recycling rate has been in excess of 60% since 1970. More than 95% of water used for making steel is recycled.
Gyra
Did you know:
8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our ocean daily. 25 trillion macro & 51 trillion micro-plastics litter our oceans.
The Hemptress
Did you know:
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis Sativa plant species that is grown specifically for industrial use. It can be used to make a wide range of products. Along with bamboo, hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth.
Ice King
Did you know:
Polar ice caps are melting as global warming causes climate change. We lose Arctic sea ice at a rate of almost 13% per decade, and over the past 30 years, the oldest and thickest ice in the Artic has declined by a stunning 95%.
Korrupt
Did you know:
Eating preservatives is like dropping a bomb on our intestinal tract because these preservatives kill both our “good” and our “bad” bacteria. The destruction of our “good” bacteria have a number of negative effects on our health. One major effect is our ability to digest and breakdown food.
Kujira
Did you know:
Even micro-plastics have been found in whales and their prey. This micro-pollution can break down from sunlight and other environmental factors into its invisible toxic chemical compounds.
Litter Beetle
Did you know:
Trash can travel throughout the World’s rivers and oceans, accumulating on beaches and within gyres. This debris harms physical habitats, transports chemical pollutants, threatens aquatic life, and interferes with human uses of river, marine and coastal environments.
Loggerhead
Did you know:
New research suggests that a disease now killing many sea turtles (fibropapillomas) may be linked to pollution in the oceans and in nearshore waters. When pollution contaminates and kills aquatic plant and animal life, it also destroys feeding habitats for sea turtles.
Major Compost
Did you know:
Yard and food scraps make up 25-50% of what we throw away. The EPA estimates that ¼ of waste in our landfills could have been composted. Composting not only removes content from our landfills but utilizes that content.
Mercu
Did you know:
Mercury is a persistent, bio-accumulative, toxic pollutant. When released into the environment, it accumulates in water laid sediments where it converts into toxic methylmercury and enters the food chain.
Mr. Gray
Did you know:
The effects of tobacco smoke on the respiratory system include: irritation of the trachea (windpipe) and larynx (voice box) reduced lung function and breathlessness due to swelling and narrowing of the lung airways and excess mucus in the lung passages.
Methane Menace
Did you know:
Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Even though CO2 has a longer-lasting effect, methane sets the pace for warming in the near term. At least 25% of today’s warming is driven by methane from human actions.
Mr. Gum
Did you know:
Chewing gum is made from polymers which are synthetic plastics that do not biodegrade. When it’s tossed on the sidewalk, there it sits until it’s removed which can be costly, time consuming process. Littered gum can also make it’s way into the food chain.
Ms. Gum
Did you know:
Though there has yet to be in-depth research on chewing gum’s rate of decomposition, it’s commonly agreed that chewing gum can take anywhere from 5 to 1,000 years to decompose.
Oil Slick
Did you know:
When oil rigs or machinery malfunction or break, thousands of tons of oil can seep into the environment. Oil spills effects on environments and habitats can be catastrophic: they can kill plants and animals, disturb salinity / PH levels, pollute air / water and more.
The Origamist
Did you know:
If you don’t recycle your used paper and instead throw it into the trash, it goes where all trash goes – to the landfill. The EPA cites landfills as the single largest source of methane emissions to the atmosphere, and has identified the decomposition of paper as among the most significant sources of landfill methane.
Polymera
Did you know:
Many balloons that are not properly disposed of end up in the ocean and along shores, becoming marine debris. Balloons can be mistaken for food, and if eaten and ingested, balloons and other marine debris can lead to loss of nutrition, internal injury, starvation and death.
Red Tide
Did you know:
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, kills fish by producing a potent toxin (called brevetoxin) that affects the central nervous system of the fish. The toxin can also affect birds, sea turtles, mammals and other marine animals.
Steven Seagull
Did you know:
Given current trends, it is estimated that 99% of seabirds will have ingested plastic waste by 2050. Birds can mistake plastic floating on the water for food, which can cause injury or death. The effects of toxic chemicals absorbed by the body are less clear.
Sludge
Did you know:
More than 80% of the world’s wastewater flows back into the environment without being treated or reused, based on the United Nations. In some least-developed countries, the figure tops 95%. In the U.S., waste treatment facilities process 34 billion gallons of waste per day.
Smolder
Did you know:
Burning prohibited materials, such as garbage, plastic and painted or treated wood, is harmful to the environment because these materials release toxic chemicals that pollute our air. Polluted air can be inhaled by humans and animals, and deposited in the soil and surface water and on plants.
The Smothering Shroud
Did you know:
Plastic bags are used for an average of 12 minutes. It takes 500 (or more) years for a plastic bag to degrade in a landfill. Unfortunately the bags don’t break down completely but instead photo-degrade, becoming micro-plastics that absorb toxins and continue to pollute the environment.
Solar Flare
Did you know:
A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased brightness on the Sun, usually observed near its surface and in close proximity to a sunspot group. Powerful flares are often, but not always, accompanied by a coronal mass ejection.
Soot
Did you know:
: Several principal emissions result from coal combustion: sulfur dioxide (SO2), which contributes to acid rain and respiratory illnesses. Nitrogen oxides (Nox), which contribute to smog and respiratory illnesses. Particulates, which contribute to smog, haze, and respiratory illnesses and lung disease.
Styro
Did you know:
When used with food products, especially when heated, Styrofoam releases toxic chemicals into the food causing a contamination which can be hazardous to your health. In addition, when exposed to sunlight, Styrofoam creates harmful air pollutants which contaminate landfills and deplete the ozone layer.
Tar Sand
Did you know:
Burning tar sands oil creates more pollution than regular crude. Because of its sludgy composition, mining and refining tar sands oil demands an enormous among of energy. Tar sands generate 17% more carbon emissions than conventional oil.
Toxina Bloom
Did you know:
The warming fuels more frequent and stronger marine heat waves that are already devastating kelp and other ocean ecosystems around the world, disrupting coastal communities that rely on salmon, shellfish and other marine sources.
The Ultimate Baler
Did you know:
Since cardboard comes in a wide range of shapes and sizes, it can be time-consuming to break down the cardboard and stack it up into bales for recycling. A cardboard baler machine compacts cardboard so it can be tied into neat bales.
Vitrea
Did you know:
Radiation can damage living tissue by changing cell structure and damaging DNA. The amount of damage depends upon the type of radiation, its energy and the total amount of radiation absorbed. Also, some cells are more sensitive to radiation.
Vortex Man
Did you know:
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge patch of ocean that contains a high concentration of plastic debris. The patch covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers. That’s twice the size of Texas, or 3x the size of France.
Vulcanator
Did you know:
8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our ocean daily. 25 trillion macro & 51 trillion micro-plastics litter our oceans.
Waste
Did you know:
Some waste will eventually rot, but not all, and in the process it may smell, or generate methane gas, which is explosive and contributes to the greenhouse effect. Leachate produced as waste decomposes may cause pollution.