A WEBSITE ABOUT EVERYTHING GARBAGE........
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LEARN ABOUT:


1. Types of waste

2. Issues of disposing waste worldwide

3. Environmental impact

4. Alternative uses

5. Disposal solutions

WHY WAS THIS SITE CREATED?

There’s balance in nature, everything is connected. Waste from one organism usually becomes food or resource for another organism. For example, trees change in every season, in autumn leaves fall off. Birds use dead branches or leaves to build their nests; microorganisms in the soil turn dead leaves and grass into humus which in turn becomes food for plants. Plant respiration and the decomposition of organic matter release great quantities carbon dioxide; but these releases have always been in balance with the carbon dioxide absorbed by plant photosynthesis.

However, in the last century human activities release additional carbon dioxide, methane, etc. and increase the greenhouse gas concentrations, which change the chemical composition of the atmosphere.  For centuries people have been getting rid of their garbage by throwing it away, releasing it in the water and air, or piling it up. This has resulted in the Earth that is sick of garbage. Landfills cannot hold anymore, rivers, lakes and oceans are polluted, air we breathe can be dangerous. Worst of all, we are running out of space to get rid of more garbage!

This site will provide information about garbage and point problems that it has created. But, most importantly, we will present solutions to world garbage problem

So, enter the Trash Talk and be the part of the solution!

HOW TO USE OUR SITE:
AUDIENCE

We created this site for all ages. But we specially wanted to create it for children . Children are our future and they need to learn about issues that they will have to deal with as adults. Also, children need to know that even now they can make difference. We hope that teachers will use our site in classes and children will use our site for research and to start solving the garbage problem.



SITE TOOLS YOU NEED

We made our site for young students, so we put lots of video and fun animations. We hope that this will make it more interesting. But to view our site you should have few tools. here are the links to download flash and quicktime players. You should also enable javascript.




HOW TO MOVE ON OUR SITE

Our site has several main topics. These are main menu buttons. When you roll over them, drop down menu will take you to explore more about these topics. Also, there are some other links on these pages so that you can learn more. To return to this, our home page, click on the "sick earth" icon with word "HOME" written below.
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