Pollution
What is Pollution?
Pollution is when gases, smoke and chemicals are introduced into the environment in large doses that makes it harmful for humans, animals and plants.
What is a cause of Water Pollution?
Chemical waste from industries
Dumping trash into water bodies
Burning of fossils fuels like coal and oil
Leakage of fuel from boats
What is an effect of water pollution?
Water pollution disrupts the food chain on land, water and air.
Disease
What can we do to prevent Water Pollution?
Use Less Plastic
Reuse Items
Clean Up Litter
Stop Chemical Pollution
What is a Pollutant?
These harmful substances like the gases, the discarded waste, smoke, sewage and chemicals are called Pollutants.
What is Water pollution?
Water pollution is when chemicals, waste or any harmful substance makes its way into bodies of water.
What is a cause of Land Pollution?
Deforestation
Farming
Landfills
Littering
Industries
What is an effect of Land Pollution?
Plants and animals along with their habitats are destroyed
Food chain gets disrupted
Cancer, deformities and skin cancer.
What can we do to Prevent Land Pollution?
Reduce the use of chemical pesticides and nutrients on crops.
Recycle
Use renewable energy sources
Reduce your paper consumption
What are the different types of Pollution?
Water Pollution
Land Pollution
Air Pollution
What is Land Pollution?
Land pollution is when pollutants like solid waste and liquid wasted estroy the land or ground or the earth’s surface.
What is a cause of Air Pollution?
It can be caused naturally by nature, such as forest fires and volcanoes.
It can be caused by humans by their usage of materials, such as fossil fuels, gas, methane gas from landfills, and burning garbage
What is an effect of Air Pollution?
Heart attack, wheezing, coughing, and breathing problems, and irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat.
Creates a hole in the ozone layer contributing in heating up the earth due to the sun’s exposure through the hole and also creating smog
What can we do to prevent Air Pollution?
Using public transports
Recycle and Reuse
Reduction of forest fires and smoking
Avoid using of products with chemicals
What is bio-degradeable?
Materials that are able to be broken down by the action of living organisms such as bacteria.
Paper is biodegradable waste, but aluminum is not.
What is Air Pollution?
Air Pollution is when pollutants like smoke, dust, gases and bad odours get into the air and makes it unclean.
What is a cause of Noise Pollution?
Industries
Vehicles
What is an Effect of Noise Pollution?
Hearing loss
Anxiety
What can we do to prevent Noise Pollution?
Banning cars from honking horns in public areas such as hospitals, teaching institutes.
Playing music on lower volumes.
What are the 3 R's?
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
What Is Noise Pollution?
Noise pollution is sounds that can harm the people and creatures who hear them.
What agency can we call to assist with Pollution?
EMA- The Environmental Management Authority
SWMCOL- The Trinidad and Tobago Solid Waste Management Company Limited