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“Because…it takes one-fourth of a pound of chemicals to produce 2 pairs of conventional cotton men’s boxer shorts. Annually, 275 million pounds of pesticides are applied to the conventional cotton plant, which must be the most environmentally destructive crop ever. The pesticides and chemicals used in the growing and processing of conventional cotton can enter the human food chain via cotton seed oil used in processed foods.
Contamination of ground water is directly linked to pesticide and fertilizer use on conventional cotton crops. Nitrates found in these fertilizers are found to cause “blue baby syndrome” in infants. Conventional cotton underwear is also processed with chlorine bleach. Dioxin–the most toxic chemical known–is a carcinogen that is derived from chlorine bleach and is responsible for hormone disruption and a host of other ills.”
City wasting 500,000 Public Works dollars
s promotion coverage Save Maumee’s Earth Day Project . Save Maumee
E. Coli. and bacteria from combined sewer overflows (CSO’s), geese, cattle and pig farms. There are 249 active NPDES permitted discharges (permitted legal discharges) and 44 CSO discharge points in the St. Joseph/Maumee watershed. Additionally there are illegal point source discharges such as tiles discharging septic tank effluent that exist in our watershed. According to Joe E. Johnson there has been . Research shows the EPA will allow five per year.
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regarding the ) were reported, reviewed, and commented on the same day as this post @ Mike Sylvester Jeff Pruitt). I will yield to their coverage rather than making a separate post during this weekend as originally intended.
I do however just have to pointe out the obvious: If the City had not spent the 500,000 dollars to match money donated to the privately funded bike trail system for a five minute spotlight we could have funded some of the Rain Garden Initiative and still had 160,000 dollars minimum left in the Public Works fund for other projects. To boot, the City tried to hire an out of State firm when we have plenty of organizations here able to do the job, as the three cited above in this original post. Thanks goes to . Now it is time to let the citizens, City Departments, and Grassroots Non For Profit Organizations locally come together and put a real plan in place! The rain gardens are a good place to start but they are not the only answer.
Thank you for putting up with my ranting and bitching.
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