5.7 Your Sewage Facilities
The sewage facilities in my community are Fairfield Water and Sewer Services, Dixon Waster Water Facilities, Easterly Waste Water Treatment Plant in Vacaville.
9.3 Green Chemistry
Our world, especially, the Pacific Ocean area known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" would look a lot differently if the 12 principles of green chemistry were applied when plastic was invented. For example, instead of plastic disintegrating into smaller and smaller components and remaining a polymer, it could have been made biodegradable ( P rinciple 10- Design chemicals and products to degrade after use ) so that it does not end up accumulating in the environment. Also, if green chemistry was considered and applied before the bottle was designed and produced, aquatic wildlife would not ingest toxic derivatives of plastic such as PCB and BPA ( Principle 8 Avoid chemical derivatives, Principle 4-Design safer chemicals and products, Principle 3-Design less hazardous chemical syntheses, Principle 2-Maximize atom econom y). The polymer, the smallest unit of plastic is so toxic and harmful to the food chain, that even people that consume fish intoxicated by plastic residues
Hi Mayra,
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to know that there are three sewage facilities in your community. Thank you for including a picture on how a sewage treatment works. It's very educational.
- Krissy