Environmental Sustainability
Background information- what's going on?

Environmental/ resource Sustainability is using resources

Food waste in canada is about $31 billion worth of food ends up in landfills and composters each year sadly. most households in canada on average wastes about $28 worth of food each week as well. approximatly 47% of food is wasted in canada. This mainly aims at households, and in general 53% of wasted food is generated. Along the value chain when food is produced,processed,transported, sold and prepared along being served in commercials 40% of food in canada doesn't get eaten and gets thrown away instead along with being rejected. 222 tons of food are wasted each year at consumer level. 30% of vegetables get rejected at supermarkets by consumers because they aren't attractive enough.

statictics about electricity waste, About 65% of energy in power plants we're lost in 2013 that is about 22 quadrillion. When energy is burned to relate heat, this boils water into steam. the steam is sent through turbines and this creates electrical energy although only two thirds of this energy actually makes it onto a grid to create electricity due to the way electricity is produced.

Councillors were updated on long-term plans to deal with Ottawa's solid waste, as the Trail Road landfill approaches capacity. In 2023 Ottawa residents paid on average to get $185 each year for waste services. but even if councillors opt against the technologies, staff say the rates will likely double within the decade. city staff have provided an estimate to how much cost for a garbage collection per household?! and in about the next 30 years based on 3 scenarios "anaerobic digestion (orange), waste-to-energy incineration and anaerobic digestion (blue) or mixed waste procession and anaerobic digestion (green).Staff have come up with dozens of recommendations they said will ensure the site is viable for 14 years, including:Building new trash piles on land adjacent to the Trail Road site.Piloting a program to close apartment garbage chutes.Switching to a system where garbage trucks pick up bins with mechanical arms.Adding organics bins in public parks.And no longer accepting commercial waste at the city's landfill. This plan incorporates very few recent moves from the council including heavily debated decisions, like to limit curbside trashes.

Mobile phones-over 1 billion units shipped, and its average life span is 2 years. E waste- Amount produced per year: 20-50 million tonnes. the percentage is unaccounted for. US: 85% CAsing- BFRS- accumulate, in the environment and the body, interfere with the brain and end up with development and hormonal systems. CATHODE TUBE- ...BATTERY- Cadmium- accumulates in the body, Free from hazardous chemicals and recyclable and durable, also takes global with them.

at first the coke bottles we're returnable in the studies, take it back was the best option for the environment in 1969. as well as throw it out was more profitable,but they had lied.

fusing hydrogen and oxygen together releases electrical energy.

Environmental ImpactsHard to dispose of the batteries and the old panelsThe Lithium batteries need Lithium which is hard to mine (Can be recyclable if there is a good system for the prosses of recycling)The solar cells in the panels die out after a while and need to be replaced but can't be recycledThe solar panels don't capture all of the sunlight and produce a lot of heat.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF LITHIUMlithium is typically mined through a process called brine mining, which involves extracting lithium from underground saltwater reserves.the risks in polluting local water sources arise here, with examples of Salar de uyuni and Salar de Atacama. This process involves lo

Environmental Impacts/disadvantages:There isn't always windTakes up a lot of landBirds and bats can run into them causing them to dieThe noise can disrupt birds and animals

If wood is the source that is burning then it can lead to deforestation

Building dams can disrupts the flow of water which has a lot of side effects. such as: Salomons can't go back up a river, the habitat around the dam can be destroyed.

A turbine placed near a shore through which tides move in and out.Expensive to set upYou have to be near a shoreMight need frequent replacement due to rustingthese are some of our disadvantages

Use energy more efficiently and waste it. Also better technology to decrease efficiency lossStop using fossil fuel energy productionUse energy more efficiently and waste it. Also better technology to decrease efficiency loss

Species biodiversity is having many different types of species

Genetic diversity is having genetic variation within species such as- genetic variationAdapted to different or slightly different environmental conditions.If it is a very dry year on varity will be adapted to dry conditions and chance of at least something good as well as surviving.

Ecosystem diversity