POLLUTION

WEBSITES

• https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-pollution
• http://www.livescience.com/22728-pollution-facts.html

LAND POLLUTION FACTS

• Land can become polluted by household garbage and by industrial waste. In 2010, Americans produced about 250 million tons (226.8 million kilograms) of garbage, consisting of product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint and batteries. That's about 4.3 pounds (1.95 kg) of waste per person per day,

MORE FACTS ABOUT LAND POLLUTION

• Food is a big contributor to landfill waste. Up to 40 percent of food produced in the United States is trashed each year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.

AIR POLLUTION

• The air we breathe has a very exact chemical composition; 99 percent of it is made up of nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor and inert gases. Air pollution occurs when things that aren’t normally there are added to the air. A common type of air pollution happens when people release particles into the air from burning fuels. This pollution looks like soot, containing millions of tiny particles, floating in the air.

water pollution

• Water pollution happens when chemicals or dangerous foreign substances are introduced to water, including chemicals, sewage, pesticides and fertilizers from agricultural runoff, or metals like lead or mercury.

WHAT IA THE INPACT OF POLLUTION

• POLLUTION CAN KILL APEX PREDATORS ALMOST ABOUT ANYTHING LIKE WATER POLLUTION IT CAN KILL FISH AND IT CAN EVEN KILL A APEX predators and then there will be too many consumers and then that ecosystem will have to many consumers and then the ecosystem will be dead.