E-Waste Explanation

800,000 tonnes of E-waste is disposed of in New Zealand per year. This greatly affects the environment, but why? Why should we care about E-waste? E-waste has many effects. For example; poisoning which damages the health of citizens around the world. Pollution, a challenge that the world faces everyday. Pains and sickness that not every family can afford to cure or to pay for a visit to the doctor. We should all care about the E-waste and the effect it has on the environment. What about the people it is effecting?

Lead is a type of metal poisoning that can affect humans and vertebrate around the world to how much heavy metal is in the body. The issue however is how does Lead make itself evident or where does it come from? It is  a chemical placed inside of electronics devices such as computers, computers that children play on. Computers teenagers and adults use to interact with others around the world. This can trigger a negative chains of events inside the body. Why should we care? Would you like to pay money for a sickness that a relative had even though you could prevent? No one wants to writhe in agony while poison slithers through their body...right?

Illnesses come in a varied and a multitude of different forms, for instance headaches, cancer, pains and toxic smoke etc. Bills pile up leaving you to divert your attention to something that you could have helped protect yourself and others from.  You wouldn't want to take care of a sick person right? So why do we export e-waste to other countries such as Guiyu or Ghana? Is it because we do not physically stand beside them and receive the sickness directly? Is it because our bodies, our blood systems are not contaminated by such revolting chemicals? We must care even though it may not happen to us but still they are humans living in our world. A world we all share.

Dirty seas. Dirty land. Dirty air. Air that others breathe in.  Pollution is an issue majority of the world faces. Why encourage an issue that people are trying to bring to a halt? We can stop this if we simply just care but we live in a world where people must be provided with reason and tempted with persuasion. Dirty seas creatures live there, creatures that we consume so imagine if they all died out...leaving us to starve. Dirty land you’re eyes  a burned to death because of boring view, why torture your eyes further with a horrible section of land? Keep the land green. Dirty air, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to hear  someone gagging due to the lack of fresh air because the air that we all breathe in has been tainted by pollution.

We should care about the effects of E-waste because it is a very important matter that we push aside. Countries are suffering because of decisions made me billions of citizens located around the world. We should care because we spend half our live preaching about how we must be a “good, green and clean person” when we can’t even stop buying products “designed for the dump.” Don’t care about posting a photo of the new iphone 6 you got on instagram just  because you bought it. Think about it. Where has your previous phone gone?  Has it gone to a place where they can safely dispose of it with workers qualified to do so? or has it gone to a place where the smoke, blows over villages?

Fishing Practices

Fishing practices have evolved with time and era. Co-operating with the needs of current businesses which have been providing them with many things in return.

Dredging is a method used for fishing practises. The dredge is usually constructed from a heavy steel frame in the form of a scoop. The frame is covered  with a chain mesh that is opened on the front side which is towed behind the boat. Dredge nets have a coarse mesh in order to let creatures smaller than the intended target through.This method hold multiple negatives and positives. It captures an abundant amount of scallops and oysters in contrast to this positive it scrapes along the ocean floor. Bringing up silt gives the water a dirty appearance. Sometimes as it scrapes the bottom of the ocean it bumps into coral breaking the homes of fish that live there sometime unintentionally catching the wrong fish.

Gillnetting is a common fishing method that has been used and still used for fishermens who do fishing practises.It is a method used by both commercial and artisinal fishermen. The gill nets are mostly used for vertical traps. The gill net seizes fish like sharks, sea turtles and swordfishes. The only problem with gill nets is that it kills the fish while they’re getting dragged by the net. However when using this method it   retrieves multiple fish in go while anchored in that one spot.

Longline fishing is a fishing technique we use. Longline can be set to hang near the ocean floor to capture fish such as tuna and swordfish. The issue about longline fishing is that it can damage the ocean floor. This techniques causes multiple issues . Such as the attraction it receives from  albatross flying over. The bait is seen by these creatures prompting them to dive underwater to retrieve the bait causing them to be hooked onto the hooks in comparison to this negative point this technique  does also, like other captures a lot of fish.

Trawling, another fishing method similar to dredging. On the high sea un-regulated bottom trawlers operating in waters well off the coast, are laying wastes to huge swaths of the ocean floor.  Sea Mountains and hills that rise from the ocean floor but do not come above the ocean surface are being damaged  by industrial fishing practises

Many rare and old even unknown species of creatures and underwater plants and corals are at danger.It was discovered in small sand habitats where the plaice prefer polychaetes trawling does have a small positive effect of trawling. In comparison to this negative scientist have found evidence that trawling can be productive. It can remove competing species underwater fishermen observed this in coastal locations with natural with natural sea bed disturbances.

There are multiple fishing practises or industrial fishing techniques. They each bring a fair amount of negative and positive effects  to the ocean. There are even some people trying to prevent these practises from continuing. What do you think?

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