What pollutes the environment and how??

Question

What pollutes the environment and how??

Answer 1

sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide

Answer 2

My farts. They can knock people to the ground within a 5 mile radius.

Answer 3

Many things can pollute the environment, mostly its through lack of education and consideration. Simple things such as household rubbish dumped illegally can cause pollution of natural aquifers ( bedding/rock with water flowing through it). Which means water for future generations may not be drinkable.  

Answer 4

Sometimes pollen and smoke pollute the air.  

Answer 5

One of the main problems is the fact that nearly all gasoline powered vehicles operate at 14.7 parts of Air to 1 part of Fuel.By safely vaporizing gasoline to 100 parts of Air to 1 part of Fuel, the amount of pollution an engine emits could be reduced substantially.And it's been done, long ago.Don't believe it ? Go to http://energy21.freeservers.com/bookrep.... and http://www.gasholemovie.com But a very tight lid has been kept on vapor fuel systems.Do a search on [the late] Tom Ogle.He was offered $25 million to keep his vaporizer off the market, refused it, and died of a "Mysterious Death" soon afterward.And all gasoline powered vehicles in the U.S.A. from 1996 to the present are required by the EPA-OBD II Vehicle Emissions Inspection Law to operate at 14.7 / 1.Any change whatsoever, even if Emissions are lowered, and fuel economy is improved, will result in a failed inspection.Thus, it is entirely possible to fail an Emissions Inspection for not emitting enough pollution ! Exemptions are granted for Alternative Energy, but not for vaporized gasoline.And this insane law that only benefits the big oil corporations, was passed during the Clinton Administration, with Al Gore's enthusiastic support ! Go figure ! And not one Politician will address this issue !So Greed, and Government Corruption are what really "pollutes the environment" !

Answer 6

i dont know.

Answer 7

Homework by any chance?

Answer 8

1) Identify the environment (air quality, stream ...)

2) Something that makes it less pure

3) How

4) Source of that something that makes it less pure (humans)

Answer 9

Co2 - from car, using air condition, plastic, waste water from the industries, garbage that they put under the ground. . . etc.

I suggests you to go www.carbonfootprint.com they give you tons of information about environment.

Answer 10

We must make a distinction between "contamination" and "pollution".

A "contaminant" is an element or compound that is "extraneous" (foreign) to the medium, (e.g. vegetable oil, salt or soil in drinking water), but not necessarily toxic or harmful per se.

A "pollutant" is an extraneous contaminant which is also one or more of the following:

- toxic (poisonous),

- teratogenic (harmful to the foetus),

- mutagenic (induces mutations in the foetus),

- pathogenic (causing disease - e.g. bacteria/virii)

- in some other way harmful to biological organisms or ecosystems (e.g. thermal pollution, compounds that use-up all the oxygen or ones that cause large increases in water turbidity and block light)

Both contaminants and pollutants can be

a) natural, or

b) anthropogenic (man-made)

They may be in their gaseous, liquid or solid "phase" and have the potential to go from one to the other, by heat changes (from to gas to liquid to solid, with a DECREASE in temperature, and viceversa) as well as evaporation, volatilisation, oxidation, precipitation.

Pollutants can be:

- assumed (biologically taken into an organism through tissues, i.e lungs, stomach, skin)

- bioaccumulated (assumed "secondhand" by eating an organism that has assumed them)

- adsorbed (stick to a surface, e.g. a pebble)

- absorbed (penetrate the tissue, e.g. a sponge)

You will find a number of lists that are internationally recognised as guides to the importance of pollutants, in terms of their effect in the EU there were a "Red List", "Black List", "Grey list" and even a "Dutch list" - considered the most advanced for its time (in the late '90s)

The US EPA I believe has its own lists but has been busy removing chemicals that make money for Bush's chronies, since he appointed an opponent of the EPA as its Head.

If this for an exam question or essay, though, be sure to revise the actual, current lists, as these frequently change and are VAST!

Commonly recognised pollutants include:

Hydrocarbons (HCs), Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs),   Chlorine, Fluorine, Boron, the Carbon monoxide (CO) and the oxides of Sulphur (SOx), Nitrogen (NOx) where x = number of oxygen atoms in the compound, PCBs, PAHs, radioactive isotopes, and many, many others.

Contrary to popular belief, neither carbon dioxide nor methane are pollutants, they are in fact contaminants, in that they exist in nature and are naturally part of the atmosphere, but in excess cause undesired effects (to humans) plants actually like CO2, they thrive on it, in fact!

Answer 11

coal power plants, steel works, factories. they pollute the air and then thousands of people die around the world cause of horrible air quality.

factories also release the waste into the rivers and it affects the waters and life in it. luckily the sun only evaporates water, otherwise rain would be very harmful.

meat and dairy production. cows create methane and they burp and f**t and thats how they pollute. then farmers clear forests, so cows can graze and its another ecological disaster.

old ships are shipped to india where they are sold as old metal and they also contain harmful chemicals that pollute water and ground.

I prefer going back to ancient times where everything was made out of wood and clay and it hardly polluted anything. now you see people supporting plastic cause its cheaper to made compared with paper, so they make many things out of plastic and later it harms the environment when humans dont take care of the plastic. its safe to throw away paper in the nature cause its natural - made out of wood, except for the ink that is used. anyway there are supposedly two large "garbage islands" in pacific ocean and plastic is falling apart into little pieces cause of the sun and fish think its food, so they eat it and then people eat those fish that are poisonous. and then there was a study in japan that showed how some chemical in plastic that ends in oceans, can affect the fertility among women that eat those poisonous fish.

anything else? oh, hydro power. when they build a dam, water rises and it ruins all those plants and they decompose and release some gas.

those darn humans. I hope if they can live in peace.

Answer 12

" Ignorance and greed "