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Particle pollution is made up of a number of components, including acids , organic chemicals, metals, and soil or dust particles. The size of particles is directly linked to their potential for causing health problems. EPA is concerned about particles that are 10 micrometers in diameter or smaller because those are the particles that generally pass through the throat and nose and enter the lungs. Once inhaled, these particles can affect the heart and lungs and cause serious health effects, such as sore eyes, burning in the nose and throat, headaches, or fatigue. Other pollutants cause or worsen allergies, respiratory illnesses (such as asthma) heart disease, cancer, and other serious long-term conditions. EPA groups particle pollution into two categories: Annihilable coarse and Fine
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CO is produced from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, the greatest contribution by far being from motor vehicles. Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) is one of a group of highly reactive gasses known as "oxides of nitrogen," or "nitrogen oxides ” (NOx). Other nitrogen oxides include nitrous acid and nitric acid. Lead (Pb) is a metal found naturally in the environment as well as in manufactured products. The major sources of lead emissions have historically been motor vehicles (such as cars and trucks) and industrial sources.
There are several main types of pollution and well-known effects of pollution which are commonly discussed. These include smog, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and "holes" in the ozone layer. Each of these problems has serious implications for our health and well-being as well as for the whole environment (Wang, personal communication, July 09 , 2011. …show more content…
One main activity that can be easily carried out at the community level is recycling. In a news article, an example of such a project is the tarpaulin recycling project by a depressed community in Iloilo, a province in the Southern Philippines. What the local community does is take all the old and used tarpaulin materials and give them to a small cooperative of women there. These women then clean, wash and dry these tarpaulin materials and sew them into bags that are resold in supermarkets that encourage shoppers to purchase these reusable bags to be used for grocery shopping (Resnick & Klimasinska, 2010.) Schools can also take part in mitigating acts by requiring students to participate in car pooling and to designate certain hours as ‘earth hours’ wherein no electricity is used, such that overall emissions for the school districts are lowered. It is also best to inculcate ‘green values’ in the minds of these children, while also educating their parents such that ‘green’ practices in school are also performed at home. If the child learns that planting trees will help create carbon sinks that will ingest excess air pollution, then the home environment must also foster similar
CO is produced from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, the greatest contribution by far being from motor vehicles. Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) is one of a group of highly reactive gasses known as "oxides of nitrogen," or "nitrogen oxides ” (NOx). Other nitrogen oxides include nitrous acid and nitric acid. Lead (Pb) is a metal found naturally in the environment as well as in manufactured products. The major sources of lead emissions have historically been motor vehicles (such as cars and trucks) and industrial sources.
There are several main types of pollution and well-known effects of pollution which are commonly discussed. These include smog, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and "holes" in the ozone layer. Each of these problems has serious implications for our health and well-being as well as for the whole environment (Wang, personal communication, July 09 , 2011. …show more content…
One main activity that can be easily carried out at the community level is recycling. In a news article, an example of such a project is the tarpaulin recycling project by a depressed community in Iloilo, a province in the Southern Philippines. What the local community does is take all the old and used tarpaulin materials and give them to a small cooperative of women there. These women then clean, wash and dry these tarpaulin materials and sew them into bags that are resold in supermarkets that encourage shoppers to purchase these reusable bags to be used for grocery shopping (Resnick & Klimasinska, 2010.) Schools can also take part in mitigating acts by requiring students to participate in car pooling and to designate certain hours as ‘earth hours’ wherein no electricity is used, such that overall emissions for the school districts are lowered. It is also best to inculcate ‘green values’ in the minds of these children, while also educating their parents such that ‘green’ practices in school are also performed at home. If the child learns that planting trees will help create carbon sinks that will ingest excess air pollution, then the home environment must also foster similar