But perhaps some of these rather non-intrusive PlasTaxes with huge environmental benefits can show the way for much larger environmental problems, like carbon pollution.
Bauxite refinery residues (BRR) remain the single largest environmental problem for the alumina industry, because of the fine-grained nature (>90% at <10 μm), high pH (>13), high sodicity (>50 g/kg), and high alkalinity (typically ≈30 g/kg as equivalent CaCO3).
Scott Anderson, who spent many years working for the oil and gas industry before becoming a senior policy advisor in the Environmental Defense Fund's energy program, says the emphasis on fracking's groundwater safety record ignores a much larger environmental problem: surface spills involving "produced water" that rises from the shale once fracking is completed.
The constantly increasing demand on quarries harms the general structure of the earth thus causing the emergence of large scale environmental problems.
Educators want to introduce students to topics that can be made comprehensible only by drawing on the ideas and methods of many scientific disciplines, one of the reasons climate change and other large-scale environmental problems are seen as holding so much potential in the classroom.
Among those are species associated with very specific habitats, such as charophytes, but also species that suffer from large-scale environmental problems of the Baltic, such as eutrophication effects (e.g. two key species found in hard-bottom habitats Fucus vesiculosus and Furcellaria lumbricalis).
Large, synthetic, reproducible databases, compiled from disparate, minimally accessible, datasets and well integrated with heterogeneous data sources, are required to address some of the most important large-scale environmental problems facing society.
The large number of environmental problems faced by society in recent years has driven researchers to collect and study massive amounts of data in order to understand the complex relations that exist between people and the environment in which we live.
The passionate, hardworking people behind these ideas are helping to solve large and overwhelming environmental problems at the local level.
In these cities the spatial distribution of environmental quality is frequently associated with socioeconomic characteristics, with vulnerable sectors often having a disproportionately larger share of environmental problems.
