what are the effects of too much litter in our environment?
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killing and injuring animals, harmoing our ecosystem, creating more waste that needs to be cleansed up, plenty of stuff.
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you mean sperms ,mmmmmmmmmmmmm too too too much .
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more people, more waste!
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We are overpopulated. Our activities are having a major impact on the environment. Many species of plant and animal have been made extinct and their blood is on our hands. We are no longer a population.. we are an infestation.
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too much fat. Eat whole, natural almonds instead.
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Well you can start by adjusting your lifestyle and joining an advocacy group in your area that promotes cleaner living. Everything we do causes pollution but there are newer consumer technologies now that will help you reduce your ecological footprint.
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Climate Change, Enviromnetal stuff, Threatened Habitats decreasing... the list is endless!! Oh, have I metioned Obesity?
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Noise pollution is the excess noise produced by cars, buildings, etc. It can disorient animals and prematurely damage hearing. \nMore info on sites below....
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Air Pollution (smoke...)\nWater Pollution (oil spills, garbage)\nPollution on Land (garbage....)\n\nOil spills in the ocean are very difficult to deal with because it requires alot of work to clean up as the ocean is so vast and the oil spreads quickly.  It is also very difficult to deal with because alot of organisms die in the ocean from the oil before it is able to be cleaned up.
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Google "soil contamination" or clink the link below.
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Carbon dioxide and other wastes. WHOA the second answerer is definitely going to win the voting.
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Probably for the same reasons people throw pop cans, beer cans, dirty diapers, food wrappers etc. on the ground..........because they are lazy or because there was no other place to put the cigarette butt. As far as the dangers involved in cigarette smoke, people have more to worry about as far as factory emissions and vehicle emissions than they do from a cigarette. Smoke rises! Go into a smoker's house and see where the stains from the cigarette smoke is found. It is found at the ceiling level. There are also more health risks from people urinating outside or pets urinating outside, than there are from a cigarette butt left on the ground. As far as the toxins from the cigarette leeching into the ground or getting into our water supply, the risks are far smaller than the chemicals that people use in their gardens and vehicles every day. I would be willing to bet that there are just as many beer cans and alcohol bottles thrown down on the ground each day as cigarette butts.  Look around and you will notice ALL the trash that is thrown down. It's disgusting no matter what the litter happens to be. Personally, I find it disgusting to see parents toss their child's dirty diaper onto the ground, just so they don't have to ride home in their car with the smelly diaper! They chose to have the child and anything that comes out of that child belongs to them! I hate when people allow their pets to roam around and use parks, other people's yards etc. for their bathroom. That is MOST disgusting!  I do have a concern about cigarette butts though, the cigarette butt can be toxic to children and animals, and a lit cigarette carries the danger of starting a fire. For those reasons I wish people wouldn't throw their cigarette butts on the ground and out their car windows. Littering of ANY kind is wrong and should carry a stiff fine. Unfortunately very few people who litter (any kind of litter) get caught. The reason it is overlooked by authorities is for the same reason other littering is overlooked. There just isn't enough manpower to deal with the situation. Police have more important things to deal with than drive around looking for litterbugs. I do think targeting one group of people for littering is wrong. If you want to protest against ALL littering that is fine, but to just have a problem with cigarette butts is ridiculous. The littering problem is not just cigarette butts. ALL littering needs to be stopped.\n\n\nResponse\n\nThank you Kenlas, I wasn't trying to say that there was no smoke down lower. People talk about the danger of second hand smoke even when they are outside. My point was that the little trail of smoke from a cigarette in comparison to everything the factories and vehicles spew out every day would not really be much of an issue. The majority of cigarette smoke rises almost immediately, leaving very little for others to be concerned about. I was using the ceiling in a smoker's house as an example of smoke rising. People want to believe that smoking and second hand smoke are the only causes of lung cancer, but researchers have NO way of proving that people who have never smoked developed lung cancer from second hand smoke. When they do their so called tests, they use HIGHLY concentrated amounts of cigarette smoke to try and prove their case. They know that the factories and vehicles spew out the same and worse toxins, in far larger quantities, than a cigarette, but because of the expense of forcing those two things to be made safer, they choose to ignore them for the most part and concentrate on a relatively small part of the population. Plus they can pass bills to outrageously raise taxes on cigarettes to help generate money whenever they need more money. I haven't seen them raising taxes on ALL alcohol to help generate more money, even though hundreds of people die due to drunk drivers each year. I don't see them banning alcohol in all public places to help reduce the amount
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if all the rivers and streams become polluted,certainly the balance of ecosystem will get disturbed.The only result will  be the perish of life from earth.
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too much of anything has an effect.
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Our beautiful earth is being destroyed. Thousands and thousands of trees are being cut down in short amounts of time, and trees give us the oxygen we need to survive. People are polluting the earth by littering, dumping trash into rivers, lakes and oceans. Car exhaust and smoking causes smog and makes the oxygen layer in our atmosphere thinner. If we don’t take action, our earth will end up like one big junkyard.
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anything that is dangerous to the enviroment and humans and animals. For example nuclear waste is highly dangerous and is handled by people who wear protective clothing and is put into big containers and stored hundreds of meters below ground in concrete. Also it is dumped deap in the oceans
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Um...it could be bad. I wouldn't worry so much about animals and stuff; I'd be more concerned about microorganisms. They say that if you were to take out ALL of the microscopic life from underground and pile it on the surface of the planet, we'd have at least three feet of muck everywhere. That's a LOT of life! That's a LOT of living stuff to be farting! Now add that with all of the trillions of insects and other crawly thing, and add all of the animals and people and plants (can plants fart, I wonder? They're LIVING so I guess they're included in this question)...it would be one massive outpouring of methane. Might create a pretty foul odor for a long time.