nicci mangano's List: waste management

• “My state’s better than your state,” should be the goal for each and every U.S. state. Childish? Maybe -- but drastic measures are necessary to curb the landfill and trash issues that the U.S. is facing. Make it your personal goal to see that your state not only stacks up, but surpasses other states in recycling trends
• Some states currently offer well-used electronic recycling programs and others need to start them up. One of the best ways to get people to recycle drink bottles is to create bottle deposit regulations, but states differ on this.
• One of the best ways to improve United States recycling statistics is to start at the state level, community level, and home level. The more responsibility taken at lower links in the recycling chain, the better the national outcomes will be.

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• Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of  organic garbage that can be composted.
• The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at  1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the  world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
• The US population discards each year 16,000,000,000 diapers,  1,600,000,000 pens, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000  car tires, and enough aluminum to rebuild the US commercial  air fleet four times over.
• Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for  packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about  65% of household trash.

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• glass takes up to 4000 years to decompose in a landfill yet can be recycled indefinitely.

• compare incidence of selected diseases reported in hospitalized patients who reside in ZIP codes that are within 15 miles of any of these sites to those of residents of three different control populations
• Although many factors influence incidence of thyroid and genital diseases, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that exposure to environmental contaminants through residence near polluted sites may be a factor.

• By 1952,   thousands of tons of toxic chemicals were disposed of in the canal. In 1953, the landfill reached maximum capacity and Hooker constructed   a cement cap and covered the area with dirt.
• A school was constructed and the remaining land was sold for the construction of homes. This construction breached the cement enclosure   and chemical waste was released into the soil and groundwater. From the late 1950s to the 1970s, residents complained of odors, basement   seepages, and unknown substances surfacing in their yards. Inexplicable health problems were also noted by residents.
• hese chronic exposures can   lead to cancer, birth defects, and genetic mutations.
• In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as Superfund.   CERCLA focuses on the cleanup of sites where toxic chemical waste has been improperly disposed or abandoned. There are thousands of these   sites in the U.S.
• Many people will illegally dump materials out their back door or into storm   sewers if they believe they won't get caught

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• Toxic waste is also known as hazardous waste.
• hazardous waste is defined as a waste that has properties that could potentially be dangerous to people or the environment. There are a vast number of hazardous wastes and they can take many forms including solids, gases, sludges or liquids. Hazardous wastes can be anything from improperly discarded cleaning fluid or insecticide to industrial or manufacturing wastes. When improperly disposed of, these wastes cause a myriad of health risks.
• Examples of improper toxic waste disposal include throwing toxic items into the trash, pouring toxic items down the drain, pouring toxic elements into ditches or onto nearby unoccupied property, burning the toxic material, or dumping and or burying the toxic waste.
• Many people who present health conditions have been exposed to high levels of toxic waste over an extended period of time through the pollution of groundwater, air and soil. The most common health problems include birth defects and cancers.

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Second to her intolerance for heat was the anxiety, which caused her heart to beat 200 times a minute and sent her to the emergency room a dozen times in six months. </p><p>But Gayden, then 28 and newly married, had nothing to feel anxious about. Still, doctors prescribed anxiety medication for what she described as an overwhelming sense of terror. Had they noted her family history of thyroid disease, the ER staffers may have called an endocrinologist to check Gayden’s TSH, or thyroid stimulating hormone, to see if it was too high. </p><p>The thyroid gland, located in the neck just below the larynx, is the body’s metabolism m</p></div></div>
• The thyroid gland, located in the neck just below the larynx, is the body’s metabolism master.
• If hormones are too low, one is considered hypothyroid and may suffer from fatigue, high cholesterol, weight gain, dry skin and depression. Too high, or hyperthyroid, like Gayden, and one may experience anxiety, insomnia and weight loss.
• An estimated 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease, and up to 60 percent don’t know it, according to the American Thyroid Association.

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• About 5 percent of the U.S. population has hypothyroidism.