Hazard to a community

These communities have accumulated significant bodies of knowledge called TEK. This ethnoecology presents understandings of the ecosystems that allows local place-based cultures to inhabit the environment without diminishing biodiversity.

From class, the Toxic Waste and race at 20 really showed a lot of alarming ideas. From 1987-2007 more than 9 million people live within 3km of the nation's 413 hazardous waste facilities. What this means, is that there are a bunch of people in danger.

This website has a bunch of more in-depth information about what hazardous waste sites can bring to a community:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637771/

Hazardous waste becomes a health issue and at the ultimate penalty from these sites, is involving early death. So, what this means is that the placement of these areas need to change or else, problems will continue to get more severe