According to a 2008 report by the EPA, the US generated 250 million tons of trash, averaging 4.5 pounds per person per day. This is an increase from the 88 million tons, or 2.7 pounds per person that was recorded in 1960. However, over that same time period there was an even greater increase in the amount of that waste that was recycled. Moving from a meager 5.5% of waste recycled in 1960, the US has increased to over 33% of total waste recycled in 2008 (Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States: Facts and Figures, 2008). Discounting the amount of waste that is recycled still leaves a difference of more than double in the waste creation between the years, but the exponential growth in the recycling amount provides information into a changing attitude.
Corn syrup has a high in sugar, which will develop into Type 2 diabetes within time. Michelle Obama warns Americans about high fructose corn syrup. Bittman et al states, “Type 2 diabetes, a disease that along with associated effects, now cost $245 billions or 23 percent of the national deficit in 2012 to treat each year” (2). Secondly, a National
1. How would you characterize the snack chip category and Frito-Lays competitive position in the category? * The United States snack food industry recorded retail sales of $37 billion in 1990, a 5 percent increase from the year before. A large source of growth results from increased per capita consumption. Consumers are buying more snack chips per person, an increase of 2 pounds over four years.
Observe: the millers lite took the sales of Coors light. Speciality beers only hold 12% of the total market. Specialty beers sold the most: in 2012 central with 39 million least east Labbat Ice has been increasing in sales by 8.8 million in the 4 years. Not available in the east. Top brand is microbreweries 39 million out of the 86 million Signature cream ale has been selling one million or less.
AO4 There are a number of different strategies to help prevent breast cancer from occurring. One way that can prevent breast cancer from occurring is by living a more healthy lifestyle. In the UK it is estimated that being overweight and being obese causes around 17,000 cases of cancer each year. I feel like this is the most simplest way to prevent breast cancer and it’s easier as people can replace the unhealthy food they eat with more healthier food. Even though it’s an easier way it is more expensive which unfortunately would make it more difficult for people who are in poverty to make this change.
‘Research indicates an annual increase of this figure of 1-1.5%, a trend that suggests half of all young Australians will be overweight by the year 2025’ (Tipping the scales: Intervention and management of childhood obesity 2007). In developed countries, obesity is the most common child health problem
That means the other 88 percent of beneficiaries “include a wide cross section of families with children, couples, and others” (Furman, 2012, p. 1). The value of the minimum wage adjusted to inflation is also about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan first became president in 1981 (Furman, 2012). Currently, 19 million people are working for less than $10.10 an hour, while nearly 50 million are living below the poverty line (Furman, 2012). The minimum wage isn’t properly adjusted to inflation, therefore putting much more of a financial burden on minimum-wage working citizens. With rent averaging roughly $1,230 a month, you wonder how people could possibly live working for the current federal minimum wage (Glink,
• Non-traditional retail stores increased their share of consumers food-at-home from 1 7.7% to 30.8 in 2003. • According to the USDA traditional retailers market share declined from 82.3% to 69.2%. • Wal-Mart was both a driver and a beneficiary of this change, as its share of U.S supermarket sales reached 15.2% by 2003. • In 2004, Wal-Mart opened its first California supercenter. • By 2007, the number of Wal-Mart supercenters nationwide were forecasted to reach 2000, translating to 35% share of food store industry.
While levels of airborne particles exceed the federal standard less than five times annually, because the California standard is set at a lower and more protective level, the Valley exceeds this limit an average of _____90-100__________ days per year. http://www.voicesofhumboldtcounty.com/?p=1607 According to this source… What caused most of the job loss in the San Joaquin valley? __The subprime mortgage crisis and housing implosion caused most of the job loss in the San Joaquin Valley.__ UOP studies have estimated that ______47,000__________ construction jobs were lost in San Joaquin Valley, as opposed to _______8,500_________ jobs in agriculture. True or False (italicize one): All of the agricultural jobs lost in the San Joaquin Valley were due to Endangered Species Act related cutbacks of pumping from the Delta. The UOP study estimated that 8,500 agricultural jobs were lost in the Valley due to cutbacks in water deliveries, but of those jobs, ______6,500_____ were lost due to the ______drought_______, and 2,000 were lost due to the ESA related
The annual inflation rate, too, only topped 6% twice, and was actually under 2% for 14 of the 25 years in this period. The real average hourly earnings of production workers increased at an average rate of over 2% per year” (Reuss). So, if the U.S. was doing so well during this time, how did this crisis of the 1970s come to be?