by Tim Williams

Created on: May 17, 2009   Last Updated: May 21, 2009

One of the greatest concerns of the 21st. century is the enormous amounts of human waste and pollution that is discharged into the water ways of countries and in the oceans of the world. The unabated surge of the toxins that are continuing to build up is destroying the very planet we live on. The pollution is so evident that most of the beaches in the United States are rampant with chemicals and harmful bacteria that vacationers have to be very wary of the current conditions of the very beach they are visiting.

Red Tide is directly attributed to the build up of toxins that come from business failure to stop the discharge of waste that continues to flow from factories into the water ways and ends up in the very same oceans that people vacation and where our fishing industry catches a vital food supply.

This vital food source that is so beneficial to mankind is now being poisoned by our own waste and pollution. If nothing is not done right now the hope of mankind is in great jeopardy. Governments failure to really address this growing global concern is almost sanctioning the current way populations dispose of waste.

This only compounds the astronomical disaster that is so eminent. A typical example of the existing way companies dispose of waste is in the electronic industry. The used computers and electrical equipment that is outdated, is shipped to China were they are contracted by American companies to dispose of these items.

The Chinese, on the other hand, instead of incinerating this waste and generating electricity; do the less costly but more harmful way, by dumping this massive amount of non-biodegradable material into the oceans. The ground where this waste produces toxins that are disbursed into the water, we drink, fish and it goes into the ground where we plant food.

Another example of what is taking place today is in cities and towns where our outdated sewage and rain run-off systems drains. Over 95% of the rain is not diverted into holding tanks and reservoirs but flows directly into rivers, lakes, bays and oceans, carrying with them toxins from all sources. Thus further polluting and wasting a vital source of water that could be used to eliminate drought conditions, eliminate flood conditions, and to eliminate those conditions where insects breed and spread disease because of standing, stagnant water.

Today what we have is a catastrophe so vast it will take a global effort by industry and governments alike to stop the spread of pollution that is ultimately going to destroy the planet. Business must take the initiative in producing efficient and productive ways of using their waste for clean energy.

The technology is readily available, but the mind set of the corporate world is still slow to change. It is up to the governments to push further legislation to encourage industry to develop their own waste disposable systems in a way that it produces clean efficient energy {which will eventually pay each corporation more dividends }.

It would create more employment opportunities, thus creating more of a tax base which means more revenue into cities and towns where then these cities and towns will be able to build better sewage and waste water systems and start to eliminate the pollution that is currently destroying not only the environment around but all life as we know it.

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