POLLUTION AND HEALTH

  Global Climate change and health Asbestos, the invisible carcinogen by Thadeus Obadha Odenyo https://healthfirst.brick.site/ Asbestos is a known human carcinogen, indiscriminately affecting men, women and children. The scientific evidence that asbestos fibers cause asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma is incontrovertible. In its natural form, asbestos can be found in many rock formations. Therefore, laborers working in the mining sector are prone to occupational exposure. Similarly, naturally occurring asbestiform can contaminate drinking water.    Historically, Asbestos’s natural resistance to heat, chemicals, acid, and electricity made it a highly desirable material that served a wide range of uses. Manufacturers primarily used the mineral for insulation and fireproofing applications, but it has more than 3,000 documented uses. Asbestos is not only ubiquitous in occurrence but in usage as well and was once a popular material in: boilers, Steam pipes, asbestos c...

  Human extinction: ‘Self-perpetuating’ nature of Global climate change By Thadeus Obadha Odenyo https://healthfirst.brick.site/ Over the past decade, our planet has recorded unearthly climatic patterns with extreme health and environmental consequences. In July 2023, it was extreme temperature regimes in the US, Europe and Asia. Now it is August 2023, and there are extreme wet...

  How safe is Plastic Recycling and Reuse By Thadeus Obadha Odenyo https://healthfirst.brick.site/ Plastics are synthetic polymers that are used in manufacturing various items. At the same time, plastics have been employed for various domestic and industrial applications. Recycling is the use of materials after remodeling to form the same type of product or different products whereas to reuse is to use again. We now need to understand what goes into making plastics. Apart from the polymerization that births plastic, there are chemical substances that are used to reinforce and protect plastics. Unfortunately, all the chemicals that are used are known to have harmful properties. Some of the substances are genotoxic, teratogenic, and mutagenic. Generally, it is agreed that most of the substances that are listed as constituents of plastics are harmful to human and animal health and wellbeing. Plastics are ubiquitous It is however not clear how fast the impacts of plastic toxica...