1). Worse still: when industry dumps toxic chemicals into rivers and oceans, these poisons end up in the fish we eat and the water we drink. Any idea why so many of us die of cancer nowadays?
We should indeed be concerned about such poisonous substances as pesticides, factory effluents, and packaging materials. We should worry about litter. "The fast food business was singled out in the 1970s as an extravagant waster of paper, used in burger wrappers and French fried potato boxes, cups, bags, napkins, take-out trays, and luncheon liners" (Stilwell et al. 8).
How many trees does it take to provide the paper necessary to satisfy McDonald's customers in one day? Many hundreds, that's for sure! Ozone depletion and the "greenhouse effect" (the warming of the earth) have been linked with such packaging materials and products as polystyrene foam that used to be produced by "a process that used chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as blowing agents; the process released CFCs into the atmosphere,
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