Pollution | Types, causes and effects of pollution | different ways to reduce pollution

Pollution is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. These harmful materials are called pollutants. Pollutants can be natural, such as volcanic ash, created by human activity such as trash or runoff produced by factories. Pollutants also damages the quality of air, water, and land. Major forms of pollution include air pollution, light pollution, noise pollution, plastic pollution, soil contamination, radioactive contamination, thermal pollution, visual pollution and water pollution.

Pollution may muddy landscapes, poison soils and waterways, or kill plants and animals. Humans are also daily harmed by pollution. Vulnerable populations has more effects on health because these populations already have higher rates of heart and lung conditions.

Types of pollution:

There are of following types of pollution

1. Air pollution
2. water pollution
3. land pollution
4. solid waste pollution
5. radioactive contaimination
6. soil pollution
7. thermal pollution
8. visual pollution
9. light pollution
10. noise pollution

These are some of the types of pollution.

Main sources of Pollution:

The main sources of pollution are as follows

1. household activities
2. factories
3. agriculture
4. transport

These are the main souses of pollution.

Once they have been released into the environment, the concentration of some pollutants is reduced by

• dispersion
• dilution
• deposition
• degradation 

In this way the concentration of some pollutants is reduced.

Every form of pollution have 2 sources of occurrence:

•  point sources
•  non-point sources

Point source is easy to:

• identify
• monitor

whereas the non-point source is hard to:

• control

Effects of pollution on the environment:

There are of following effects of pollution on environment

Pollution may be 

1. muddy landscape
   
2. poison soil
3. waterways
4. kills plant and animals

These are the effects of pollution on the environment.

Ways to reduce pollution:

There are following ways that reduce the pollution

1. Reduce the number of trips that you have taken in your car
2. Reduce or eliminate fireplace and wood stove use
3. Avoid burning leaves, trash, and other materials
4. Avoid using gas-powered lawn and garden equipment
5. by conservation of energy at home, at work, everywhere
6. use public transport, bike or walk wherever possible
7. use the chemical free products (paints or cleaning products) wherever possible.
8. use gas to cook or other purposes rather tan using cutting wood from plants
9. keep tuned cars, buses, boats and engins
   

All of these can be found in urban areas.

These are some of the ways that reduces the pollution. So, in this way we reduce the pollution.

Pollution disturbs the balance in the environment and ecosystem. As the technology grows the pollution also reaches its peak and give rise to:

illness of human health

global warming

Pollution not only effect human by destroying their:

• respiratory system
• cardiovascular system
• neurological system

It also affect:

• nature
•      Plants
•      fruits
•      vegetable
•      river
•      ponds
•      forest
•      animal 
  

on which they are dependent for their survival.

To overcome the pollution we should follow right guidelines to make the living better and healthy.