ENSC 483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Dawkins, Todd Strasser, The Selfish Gene
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Did you know cornwall ontario produced mustard seed gas during ww2 and now it is being stored/ dumped underground leading to whales getting cancer. France has the most nuclear reactors (temporarily stored under mountains) There is radioactive waste and low-level radioactive waste. Ex. low level radioactive waste can be produced by a hospital. Waste can be reclassified as recycling, this allows canada to ship these recycle" products to other countries. Waste is not a technical problem it is a social problem. What is waste - think of it more in what is being" instead of giving a straightforward definition like it is a thing. Garbage is all that anonymous stuff falling between valued objects and dust . Things that are valued are not waste. Dust is made from humans mostly and is microscopic. People instinctively try to get as far away from the waste they produce.