ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Lifestyles characteristic of our times, leading to the production and accumulation of garbage. Lots of everyday products, comes into our homes, schools or workplaces, among which we find: cans, packaging, wrappers, bottles, glassware, among other things.

Day by day, the generation of waste, whether gas, solid or liquid is increased.

Among the phenomena that cause environmental problems is mixing industrial with waste in general waste., Including the owners of small workshops, deliver them to their waste to the municipal collection services, where they are mixed without any caution household waste and transported to open dumps. Industry, however, spend a lot of energy and water, processes are linear and produce a lot of waste such as a refrigerator.

CAUSES

Our current lifestyle has led waste production to an extreme level for several reasons:

• Industrial development

Industrial society has very easy to create a product from raw material. This becomes a growing consumption of manufactured products, with the consequent production of packaging.

• The era of consumption

In our society, consumption is a key factor for the economic and cultural point of view.

-Generates Composition products outside existing materials in nature.

- Excite the widespread consumption of throwaway.

- Excessive packaging of products.

• Population Growth

In the last two centuries world population it has grown from 1,000 million (in 1800) to 2,000 million (1900), and in 1999 reached 6,000 million.

CONSEQUENCES

Soil contamination

It can be an irreversible process and also has the disadvantage property to facilitate the introduction of toxic substances in the food chain.

Diseases

When garbage is thrown open pit, there are risks of disease for the population because they begin to generate vectors as mice, flies and other pests that transmit diseases.

Water contamination

Water can be contaminated in different ways, but the most common today is by discharging waste water or sewage from urban areas in rivers and streams.

SOLUTIONS

 Landfills

One possible solution is landfills. This system is not a garbage dump in the open, also not a waste burial, much less a controlled incineration. The landfill is a method of disposal, which borders the waste in an area as narrow as possible, covered with layers of soil and compacted daily to reduce significantly its volume drastically.

The Pan-American Health Organization declared it a disposal method par excellence, one that poses no risk to the health of the population.

This method is to transport the waste to a zone and flood loam soil and cover them with a layer of soil. It is necessary that the land is clay, because if the land shall not prevent permeable drainage of fluids - like rain - dragging harmful substances into groundwater.

 Recycling

Recycling is a process aimed at turning waste into new products to prevent disuse of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of new raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (by incineration) and water (through landfill) by reducing the need for conventional waste systems, as well as reducing emissions of greenhouse gases as compared to the production of plastics.

 Research

Biotechnology research departments how to neutralize odors and pollution garbage cans, cesspools, ground water and various applications. They also study how to inactivate some components and as produce from organic elements, some fertilizer that can be used commercially.

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