Depleting Fisheries, Scrap Bike Tubes, the Mountain Pine Beetle

I decided to research three very different problems to potentially focus on for my project.

The first is the unfortunate reality that most fisheries are not being sustainably fished.  There are resources online to decide what fish to eat and which fish to avoid, based on sustainability and health benefits, but most people just don't know or care.  I think that the reason that many people don't care is because they see this as a "saving wildlife" issue, which many people just don't find important.  What they should see it as is a "saving my grandchildren's ability to enjoy fish as I have" issue.

I recently had to replace my bike wheel and tube.  The wheel is scrap metal, and is therefore valuable: someone benefits financially from recycling it.  At the moment, no one benefits financially from recycling my bike tube.  The tube is useless in this function, but it may not be useless in another application.  I would like to research and apply this material to a different application, instead of throwing it in the garbage and adding to already overflowing landfills.

As the climate has warmed, the Mountain Pine Beetle populations have run rampant; they are able to survive the winters in Canada and the PNW.  This means that more and more pine trees are being killed by this beetle.  This jeopardizes the habitats of animals in the forests as well as the jobs of those in the lumber industry.  I would like to address this by preserving the forest ecosystem as well as the employment of those involved.