Fate and Transport of Heavy Metals in the Former Tin Mining Catchment

ISBN-13: 9783659324697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 300 str.

Ashraf Muhammad Aqeel;Maah Mohd Jamil;Yusoff Ismail

Opis

We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and pollution. But we dont understand that when we add up all the tiny environmental problems each of us creates, we end up with those big environmental dilemmas. Humans are content to blame someone else, like government or corporations, for the messes we create, and yet we each continue doing the same things, day in and day out, that have created the problems. Sure, corporations create pollution. If they do, dont buy their products. If you have to buy their products (gasoline for example), keep it to a minimum. Sure, municipal waste incinerators pollute the air. Stop throwing trash away. Minimize your production of waste. Recycle. Buy food in bulk and avoid packaging waste. Simplify. Turn off your TV. Grow your own food. Make compost. Plant a garden. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. If you dont, who will?

O autorze

Dr. Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf is working as Senior Lecturer (Environ Geochem) at Geology Department, University of Malaya. He is regarded as one of the leading young scientist working on environmental chemistry in Malaysia. His current research interest is the fate and transport of metallic and radioactive elements in the ecosystem.