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Class: COMM - Public Speaking; Subject: Communication; University: Loyola University Chicago; Term: Forever 1989;
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DEFINITION 1 My name is Teresa Davies, and I'll be presenting on...Attending college at Loyola University, we get to enjoy the beautiful Lake Michigan right at our doorstep. Whether were swimming in the summer, out on a boat, or drinking from a water fountain, this water is an important part of all of our lives. As humans, we depend on bodies of water such as Lake Michigan, other freshwater sources, and our oceans as crucial resources for countless uses including for drinking water and for food. TERM 2
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DEFINITION 3 When theyre washed down the drain, theyre so small that they pass through most water treatment systems, and, as a result, make it into bodies of water including oceans and lakes. This is problematic firstly because they contribute to the accumulating plastic pollution in the water. According to Nature World News, 8 trillion plastic bits are dumped into oceans and lakes every day, and according to a study done by Sherri Mason as cited by the National Public Radio, 17,000 bits of tiny TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 plastic items are found per square km in Lake Michigan alone. In addition to the currently unfixable pollution that they cause, these microbeads look like food to marine creatures, and can harm or kill them once consumed due to the toxins the beads absorb. Now this is a problem not only for the aquatic creatures that consume them, but for us, too, because if these toxins from trillions of microbeads are passed on to, say, fish, they can be potentially passed on to humans who eat the fish, posing a serious health risk. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Luckily, this issue has been acknowledged by many scientists and a few state governments, including Illinois, and movements to make microbeads illegal are in the works for upcoming years. Unfortunately, this is not enough to remedy the unimaginable damage to our water sources that will occur between that time and now. While businesses are experimenting with more environmentally-friendly replacements for microbeads, such as naturally dissolvable PHA plastic as observed by an article in
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