environmental pollution caused by factories?
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Pollution is the release of chemicals, physical, biological or radioactive contaminants to the environment. The major forms of pollution include:\n\nair pollution, the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere. Common examples include carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles. Ozone and smog are created as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons react to sunlight. \nwater pollution via surface runoff and leaching to groundwater. \nradioactive contamination, added in the wake of 20th-century discoveries in atomic physics. (See alpha emitters and actinides in the environment.) \nnoise pollution, which encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as high-intensity sonar. \nlight pollution, includes light trespass, over-illumination and astronomical interference. \nvisual pollution, which can refer to the presence of overhead power lines, motorway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of junk or municipal solid waste.
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Pollution:\n\nhttp://www.ucar.edu/research/pollution/\n\nIf you want to compare pollution in various cities, just find out the zip code of the city you want to check out and enter it here:\n\nhttp://www.scorecard.org/\n\nFor the latest in what companies are doing to try to reduce how much pollution they're making, try here:\n\nhttp://www.pollutiononline.com/content/homepage/default.asp?VNETCOOKIE=NO\n\nGlobal Warming:EPA's official "all you need to know about global warming" site:\n\nhttp://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html\n\nHere's a map of what's happening where because of global warming:\n\nhttp://www.climatehotmap.org/\n\nGlobal warming cause and effect:\n\nhttp://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp\n\nWhat global warming is doing to our wildlife:\n\nhttp://www.nwf.org/globalwarming/
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save our earth by pollution!!---\n\nPollution began to draw major public attention in the United States between the mid-1950s and early 1970s, when Congress passed the Noise Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.\n\nBad bouts of local pollution helped increase consciousness. PCB dumping in the Hudson River resulted in a ban by the EPA on consumption of its fish in 1974. Long-term dioxin contamination at Love Canal starting in 1947 became a national news story in 1978 and led to the Superfund legislation of 1980. Legal proceedings in the 1990s helped bring to light Chromium-6 releases in California--the champions of whose victims, such as Erin Brockovich, became famous. The pollution of industrial land gave rise to the name brownfield, a term now common in city planning. DDT was banned in most of the developed world after the publication of "Silent Spring".\n\nThe development of nuclear science introduced radioactive contamination, which can remain lethally radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Lake Karachay, named by the Worldwatch Institute as the "most polluted spot" on earth, served as a disposal site for the Soviet Union thoroughout the 1950s and 1960s. Nuclear weapons continued to be tested in the Cold War, sometimes near inhabited areas, especially in the earlier stages of their development. The toll on the worst-affected populations and the growth since then in understanding about the critical threat to human health posed by radioactivity has also been a prohibitive complication associated with nuclear power. Though extreme care is practiced in that industry, the potential for disaster suggested by incidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl pose a lingering specter of public mistrust. One legacy of nuclear testing before most forms were banned has been significantly raised levels of background radiation.\n\nInternational catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal industrial disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage. The borderless nature of the atmosphere and oceans inevitably resulted in the implication of pollution on a planetary level with the issue of global warming. Most recently the term persistent organic pollutant (POP) has come to describe a group of chemicals such as PBDEs and PFCs among others. Though their effects remain somewhat less well understood owing to a lack of experimental data, have been detected in various ecological habitats far removed from industrial activity such as the arctic, demonstrating bioaccumulation after only a relatively brief period of widespread use.\n\nGrowing evidence of local and global pollution and an increasingly informed public over time have given rise to environmentalism and the environmental movement, which generally seek to limit human impact on the environment.
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sulfur dioxide\nsulfur dioxide\ncoffe shop owner
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pollution can cause poisonous run off, and destroy the habitat of water animals, it would also hurt the animals who drink from the water source. It causes smog, its very bad to breath, with all of the pullution building uo it traps heat in earths atmosphere, causing global warming, the planet heats up. theres also alot of other tihngs.
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Not all advances in technology cause pollution. Man needs to put his mind to the types of science that work in harmony with nature.
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Google that and you will find as I did that there is a wealth of information on external environment analysis within health care!!!\n\nGood Luck!!!
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How about something on the negative effects of outsourcing to China, on companies? Look into China's energy deficencies, its human rights violations,and its environmental problems that might affect a company's work force, as well as production.
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a city tht is very polluted\n\nÆ
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Go to EPA (Enviromental Protection Agency).\nThey have books and books of them.
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Arguably the principal source of air pollutants worldwide is motor vehicle emissions. While the U.S. has adopted stringent emissions controls, the EU has not been as assertive in this field; nevertheless, the U.S. is still the leading contributor to mobile source air emissions merely due to the very high number of vehicle miles travelled per capita. Underdeveloped countries lag severely in emission controls on motor vehicles, especially roadway vehicles, and on a per vehicle mile travelled basis produce many times the emissions of the U.S fleet.\n\nThe U.S., Russia, China and Japan lead the world in air pollution emissions; Canada is the number two country if measured in emissions per capita.\n\nPrincipal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.\n\nSome of the more common soil contaminants are chlorinated hydrocarbons (CFH), heavy metals such as lead, which is found in lead paint and until recently in gasoline, MTBE, cadmium, which is found in rechargeable batteries, chromium, zinc, arsenic and benzene. Ordinary municipal landfills are the source of many chemical substances entering the soil environment (and often groundwater), emanating from the wide variety of refuse accepted, especially substances illegally discarded there, or from pre-1970 landfill that may have been subject to little control in the U.S. or EU.\n\nPollution can be the consequence of a natural disaster. For example hurricanes often involve water contamination from sewage, and petrochemical spills from ruptured boats or automobiles. Larger scale and environmental damage is not uncommon when coastal oil rigs or refineries are involved. Some sources of pollution, such as nuclear power plants or oil tankers, can produce widespread and potentially hazardous releases when accidents occur.\n\nIn the case of noise pollution the dominant source class is the motor vehicle, producing about ninety percent of all unwanted noise worldwide.
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Just google pollution and recylcing.  You can get images for your report that way too.
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There is a huge problem with the pollution. I don't want to start glowing bright green. With Nuclear power plant comes Nuclear targets for the enemy too. You can't hide them, they glow in the dark.
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Pollution and DDT can cause poor environments.  All the oil and logging industries causes detriment to fishing of salmon for eagles.  As civilization expands their habitat shrinks.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_pollution\n\nNoise pollution is unwanted human-created sound that disrupts the environment. Noise pollution can be caused by many sources including highways, vehicles,police cars, ambulances, factories, concerts, music, air-conditioners, engines, machine, aircraft, helicopters, alarms, public address systems, industrial development and construction work. In general, noise pollution refers to any noise irritating to one's ear which comes from an external source. The word "noise" comes the Latin word "nausea" meaning seasickness.\n\n\nThis PIL was filed in the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi. The petition relates to the pollution caused by the crackers during the festivals like Diwali, Dusshera etc. The busting of crackers not only causes noise pollution but also air pollution besides heap of garbage is also accumulated in that day. Although authorities have been taking measures for controlling the pollution as directed by the Hon'ble High Court from time to time. Various meetings had also been conducted to get the relief. The standards for the fire crackers had been notified No.GSR 682(E), dated Oct.5, 1999. That the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi directed that: -\n\nNotification No.GSR 682(E), dated October 5,1999 shall be strictly complied with. \nFire crackers generating noise level exceeding 125 dB(01) of 145dB at 1 meters distance from the point bursting shall not be manufacture. \nFor individual fire cracker constituting the series (Joined fire crackers), the aforesaid limit shall be reduced by 51(N) dB, where N = number of crackers joined together. \nFrom 1st November,2000, the manufacturer shall specify and record the noise level on the cracker itself. \nUse of fire-works shall not be permitted on Dussehra, Diwali and other festivals including festivities except between 6.00 P.M to 11.00 P.M. \nFire-works shall not be used in the areas designated as silence zones. \nFire-works shall not be used near hospitals and nursing homes. \nPeople should be educated and made aware of the ill-effects air and noise pollution caused by the indiscriminate use of fireworks. For this purpose, Doordarshan and other TV channels should show quickies, on prime time, for at least five times a day. During the fortnight before Dussehra and Diwali, Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting shall also give appropriate advertisements through newspapers. Besides All India Radio should broadcast appropriate messages on prime time on FM and other frequencies for circulation of the information in this regard. \nCPCB and CDP(Licensing) shall prepare slides/films fir showing adverse consequences of air and noise pollution and shall be shown/screened in all cinema halls of Delhi before all the daily shows. \nSteps should be taken by the managements of all schools in Delhi to educate students about the ill-effects of air and noise pollution. \nManufacture, Sale and use of rockets, maroons and atom bombs of a noise level higher than the one prescribed in Notification No.GSR 682(E), dated October 5,1999 shall not be permitted.
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Environmental pollution is the release of environmental contaminants, generally resulting from human activity. Carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles are common air pollutants. Sunlight converts nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons to ozone or smog. Water pollutants may consist of a wide range of organic and inorganic chemicals such as heavy metals, petrochemicals, chloroform, and bacteria. Water pollution may also occur in the form of thermal pollution and oxygen depletion. Soil contamination is an important aspect of environmental pollution; this phenomenon occurs when chemicals are released by spill or underground storage tank leakage. Among the most significant soil contaminants are hydrocarbons, heavy metals, MTBE, herbicides, pesticides and chlorinated hydrocarbons.
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Pollution caused by recreation, rather than industry or government.  Examples would be boaters who throw wastes overboard, noise and exhaust from SUVs and the like, etc.  We can all think of examples when we are sitting home at our computers.  The trick is to remember that the next time we visit a sensitive environment.  Even smoke from a barbecue is pollution, although perhaps a tolerable level.  Certainly all litter is pollution.