These websites were extremely interesting to explore and I think they are great resources for people to use to help out when disaster happen. Where I live, I was unfortunately unable to find organizations that offer volunteer services for disasters. I do know about American Red Cross and I'm aware of the disaster service worker volunteer program on the California Office of Emergencies website because my uncle is a firefighter and has mentioned it to me in the past. As a future public health professional, it's very inspiring to volunteer and help those who suffered from an unfortunate experience. It's important to get involved and use what we learned in this class to help those in need. I wish there wouldn't be any disasters at all, but I am glad there are resources like such to encourage people to volunteer and use their abilities to volunteer and respond to the disasters that occur in our day to day life. I have donated clothing and food to disasters in the past but I have never volunteered. After recently experiencing the horrible fires so close to home and where I attended college, I am considering registering with one of these organizations.
Found this interesting environmental health news article on cigarette butts in the ocean and how they not only harm the ocean, but also the marine life and us! These cigarette butts have filters made of cellulose acetate and "take a decade or longer to break down under ultraviolet light, which in turn disperses the toxic plastic into smaller bits." Makes me want to go to the ocean and clean up all the cigarette butts I see! News article: Cigarette butts are the biggest source of ocean garbage
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