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Get the free Official Geocaching app and join the world's largest treasure hunt.

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There are millions of geocaches worldwide, just waiting for you to find them. There are probably even some within walking distance of where you are right now. Visit Geocaching.com to see just how many geocaches are nearby and to learn how to start finding them.

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Educate Yourself-Don't Close Your Eyes When the Truth is in Front of You

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Educate Yourself-Don't Close Your Eyes When the Truth is in Front of You

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Background - 2 June, 2010

Water - though central to our lives - is the world's most threatened essential resource.

We need water for everything we make, but dirty industries who use it and pollute it with toxic chemicals are impacting on people's health across the world.

Greenpeace is committed to a toxics free environment, where industries, people and government work together to remove harmful chemicals from products we buy every day.

You're key to making this happen! The Water Warrior Toollkit can help young people foster responsibility for the environment around them.

By using the toolkit in class, you'll know you're helping to create a generation of Water Warriors - who understand the importance of water, what threatens it, and what they could do to change the world around them.

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Background - 2 June, 2010 Water - though central to our lives - is the world's most threatened essential resource. We need water for everything we make, but dirty industries who use it and pollute it with toxic chemicals are impacting on people's health across the world.

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Take action to phase out the use and discharge of hazardous chemicals, rather than attempting to control the damage

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The disposal of hazardous chemicals leak pollutants into groundwater. Water in aquifers move through the Earth extremely slow, its pollutants continue to grow. Aquifers become sinks or storage containers for pollutants, decade after decade, further lowering the amount of clean water they can produce for human use. We're poisoning our fresh water supply, and in return, instead of investing in the future generations, we are strangling their chances for a healthy, sustainable life.

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Pollution of Yesterday, Silent Killer Today

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Pollution of Yesterday, Silent Killer Today

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An underground tank may take years to rust; After it begins to leak, it may take several more years before adequate amounts of chemicals appear in the aquifer(and it will likely be years beyond that before any health effects show up in the local population) By then, the trail may be decades old. So it's quite possible that any cancers occurring today as a result of leaking USTs might originate from tanks that were installed half a century ago. At that time, there were gas tanks sufficient to fuel 53 million cars in the world; today there are enough to fuel almost 10 times that number.

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California's Silicon Valley, where electronics industries store assorted waste solvents in underground tanks, local groundwater authorities found that 85 percent of the tanks they inspected had leaks

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History - Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

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High-tech Production Lead to High-tech Pollution & Health Problems SVTC was formed in 1982 when groundwater contamination was discovered throughout Silicon Valley near high-tech manufacturing facilities. Though the industry seemed "clean," toxic chemicals were being leaked out of underground storage tanks. More than 100,000 homes in San Jose were exposed to toxic solvents from a ...

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Toxic contamination is result of more than a century of irresponsible and illegal handling of toxic chemicals

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Earth is a closed ecological system in which nothing ever disappears . You can't just bury, burn, or dump toxic waste and chemicals into the ground, forget about them, and hope the problem is solved. Eventually the earth will absorb and re-circulate the waste

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Each country is ethically and legally responsible for its own wastes but everyone is affected by how this process is carried out

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Key issues with Rubbish Dump sites/ Toxic Waste sites

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Key issues with Rubbish Dump sites/ Toxic Waste sites

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everyday products contain toxic chemicals

EPA says that all landfills eventually leak

landfills give off potentially harmful gases

odors will often seeps the neighborhoods; decreased property value, lower quality of living, higher traffic

Some studies show that birth defects increase in communities surrounding landfills

Municipal waste, medical waste, special waste, or hazardous waste landfills are four common types

types of waste accepted at any particular site are not regulated or monitored strictly enough by state agencies

many sites are used as base for athletic fields, playground, parking lots or other facilities after their active period is over

uses such as this can lead to cracks in the cover, and subsequent leakage;waste industry companies are responsible for the liability for such problems for often no more than 30 years

Waste incineration is almost impossible to regulate

releases toxic chemicals, such as lead and mercury, from the smoke stacks, and even produces additional byproducts in the stacks at certain temperatures (dioxins and furans)

incinerators produce toxic ash which has to be disposed of in a landfill;Incineration does not eliminate waste; it redistributes toxic chemicals into the air and produces another form of waste (ash) to be land filled

areas where the waste collects before it goes into the stacks starts to decompose and releases toxic chemicals into the air affecting worker health and nearby neighborhoods

Water can become contaminated with toxic or radioactive materials from industry, mine sites and abandoned hazardous waste sites

Fresh water pollution cause acid rain with smoke

make water in homes undrinkable and that could make you dye by not having water supply