The Positive Effects of Pollution
Increasingly, through cooperation, inventions, and world organizations reuse and reclaimed portions of pollutants contributes to the betterment of the environment. The cooperation between food stock producers and energy sources provides consumers with safer products. Inventions to reap good by-products from pollutants offer alternatives to feeding commercial livestock. Groups build artificial reefs providing nurturing environments for depleting coral beds from discards that traditionally become scrap metal. Creative efforts show that even pollutants can do good things for the planet when applied scientifically and intelligently.
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Sunken Metal for Artificial Coral Reefs
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Early as 1973, scientists explored the advantages of using both military and commercial ships no longer sea-worthy as artificial coral reef nurseries. Removal of all oil, any electrical equipment, and those items that potentially harm sea life from the ship makes it ready for another important interaction with the sea. Sinking the prepared sea vehicle inaugurates another means allowing new breeding grounds for coral reef growth.
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Sludge to Farm Feed
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Ongoing methods to develop inventions to change sludge (in this case, food processing waste and used cooking oil) into a single-celled protein suitable for feeding farm animals continue to inspire ecology-minded scientists. Removing the water from the sludge harvests crude protein, fat, and fiber along with carbohydrates. In its dry form, this compound makes a useful element for enzyme action toward developing the protein-based materials used for the livestock feed.
Plants Increase in Storing Carbons
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When the sun does not reach plant life, photosynthesis (plants changing light to food for growth) cannot take place. However, studies conducted by the "Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change" (from 1960 to 1990) on the effect of hazy days on vegetation concluded that a 25 percent increase in carbon absorption by plants occurs. Good air quality increases with plants capturing carbon from the atmosphere.
Toxic Quicklime Returns Sea Otters
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Sea otters have delighted onlookers since the Spanish first colonized the beautiful shorelines of California. Decades ago, the sea otters began disappearing, and marine biologists discovered the culprits were sea urchins devouring giant-kelp beds off shore (the main food source of the region's sea otters). Through years of experimentation, scientists determined that spreading toxic quicklime on the predominantly sea urchin-inhabited kelp beds kept the creatures under control. This fabricated change successfully encouraged the regrowth of the giant kelp beds along with the return of the sea otters.
Power Plant and Mariculture Cooperation
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Raising commercial fish in artificially heated waters continues with the cooperation of power plants and mariculture farmers (those who raise sea and water creatures for human consumption). By using power plant waste-heated waters after massive filtering for use in regulated hatcheries, oysters, lobsters, shrimp in Miami, and catfish, reach consumers without risk of disease and harmful pollutants while boosting the industry.
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