Blog Post #4: Reflecting on the environmental geography of your meal or product
In blog post #3 I discussed how the sugar mills primarily in China had a negative effect on the flora and fauna in the environment surrounding those mills. Primarily the pollution in the water such as the irrigation systems. It is also a matter of the amount of pollutants that are being dumped into bodies of water. the EPA passed a law in the 1970s that prohibited the dumping of dangerous amounts of pollutants that could effect the human body into bodied of water (NEPIS). They also need to establish limitations for all industrial plants. In my opinion though on a smaller scale solution could be just the creation of small local sugar companies. Especially in the united states since we usually import sugar from these mills in china maybe making our own sustainable businesses with environmentally safe processes to produce the sugar and put the large industries out of business is the way to go. Some actions that can be taken at an individual level could be searching sustainable sugar c