ISU Part 3: Research Summary What does poverty mean to you? Being in a state where you can only afford; food, clothes, and a place to sleep? Or when someone has absolutely nothing and lives off the spare change which you receive from the random strangers. Poverty is a big problem. It is especially hard for those whom live in a bad environment. I say this because getting out of poverty is hard enough, but what if you live in an environment where it makes it harder for you to try to survive your everyday life. It isn’t easy to get out of poverty, especially for those of the Grangemouth, Scotland residents, North Carolina people from the 1978, and for people who don’t get the help they deserve. The residents of Grangemouth, Scotland, contain three out of the top ten polluters by volume in Scotland since 2002. During the late 1990s, pressure groups such as Friends of Earth, showed research which came to demonstrate that Grangemouths situation was in a wide problem, where communities were bearing a burden of environmental degradation. This made it more unfair for those who try their best to get out of poverty in their everyday lives. Making spare change and to live in an environment which made it harder for them to do the things that would get them out of poverty. For example, they would get sick because of the pollution in the air which is spread out by the Grangemouth community. Ultimately, people shouldn’t suffer even more than they should because of unforeseen events caused by other communities. In 1978, citizens of North Carolina found oil soaking into the soil alongside 340 kilometers of road. Inspectors found that the oil was found to be laced with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls. Later on state officials disposed of the waste in a landfill site near the predominantly black town of Afton. They found that this was the most suitable place for the thousand tonnes of contaminated soil. They residents disagreed, and wanted a different way to dispose of the contaminated soil, because they knew if they got rid of the soil in another community, it would cause larger problems in the future for people who are and aren’t in poverty. This comes to show that some people are starting to notice the problems that pollution can cause, and that people try to stop it before it starts to worsen. In 1992, the Environmental protection agency, the Us’ counterpart to the UK Environment Agency, formed a working group to pull together research on