Wipe it off!

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Katia Castillo, Elisa Lee, Luis Pedro Vizcaíno, Alexandra Domínguez, Juan Diego Mena

Land Pollution
WHAT IT IS
It is the contamination and degradation of Earth’s surface, caused by human activities and their misuse of land resources. Land pollution occurs when waste is not disposed properly.
CAUSES
Urban and Rural wastes
Exploitation of minerals
Improper use of soil by inadequate
agricultural practices
Increase in urbanization
Domestic waste
Industrial (ex: mining waste)

EFFECTS
Exterminates wild life
Acid rain kills plants and trees
Vegetation is destroyed
Disrupts the balance of nature
SOLUTIONS
Adequate garbage disposal
Recycling of garbage
Avoid over packaged products
Using less pesticides and herbicides
Encourage organic farming
Efficient use of resources

Water Pollution
WHAT IS IT?
Water pollution is the contamination of Earth’s waters caused by sewage, sludge, garbage, and toxic pollutants dumped into the water .

CAUSES
Sewage, sludge, garbage, and even toxic pollutants are all dumped into the water and governments do not really care.
No efforts are made to disinfect or to remove harmful pollutants.
Chemicals dumped by industries and governments.
Oil has been dumped into water between 1 and 10 billion tons of oil every year.

EFFECTS
Kills animal life
Pollution disrupts the natural food chain as well
Human can get diseases such as hepatitis by eating seafood that has been poisoned.
SOLUTIONS
Clean Water Act
Non-governmental projects
Dispose you trash in a proper manner
Do no throw products into your toilet or sink
Do not litter into streams, lakes, rivers, or seas
Turning tap off when you do not need the water running.

Air Pollution
WHAT IS IT?
Is the exposure of Carbon Monoxide in the air.
Air Pollution includes smog, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and “holes” in the ozone layer.
We usually breath the ocean. But because of its contamination and the smoke that surrounds us polluted the fresh air we used to breathe long time ago.
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CAUSES
We are the ones who cause it.
(OUTDOOR)
Black Carbon- release of fuels, and smoke of industries, the smoke of the chimneys, automobiles, burning of wood, burning of trash, cooking, and more.
Noxious Gases- form acid rain and smog. These are caused by chemicals in water that then are being evaporated.
Smog is obtained from the diesel from the cars, and the smoke from the industrial buildings and factories.
(INDOOR)
25%-62% is greater than outdoors percentages of pollution.
In indoors what causes pollution is the cooking, paints, furniture, smoking, vapors, drying, for example drying your hair. These are things that normally are being used.

EFFECTS
Greenhouse effect- This is the building up of carbon dioxide in the air which causes the ozone layer to break and to get thinner because of all the chemicals that are surrounding it.
Ozone depletion- the stratosphere layer is being damaged. This causes to make holes and let the radiation go through it penetrating the Earth.
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SOLUTION
Instead of driving just a few blocks, walk or use your bicycle.
Stop smoking. First of all it damages you and it can harm your lungs, and second of all it damages the people around you.
myportfolio.usc.edu/enowak/air-pollution.jpg

Noise Pollution
WHAT IS IT?
Noise pollution is unpleasant human, animal or machine-created sounds that disrupt the normal functioning of human or animal life. Noise is a sound without a rhythm and only annoys us.
CAUSES
The source of most outdoor noise in the world is transportation, including motor noise, and airplane noise.
Other sources of indoor and outdoor noise pollution are car alarms, emergency sirens, factories, construction work, barking dogs, house appliances, power tools, audio entertainment systems, and noisy people.

EFFECTS
Noise causes health and/or behavioral effects. Noise pollution can cause annoyance, aggression, hypertension, lots of stress, tinnitus, hearing loss, sleep problems, and other harmful effects. Furthermore, stress and hypertension are some of the main causes to lots of health problems, whereas tinnitus can lead to forgetfulness, severe depression and sometimes, panic attacks.
Too much noise could help cardiovascular diseases to develop. Exposure to somewhat high levels of noise during several hours a day causes an increase in stress, which rises your blood pressure.
SOLUTIONS
Try not to make too much noise when out in
the street.
If possible, use a less noisy car.
Switch your electrical appliances to ones that
are more quiet.
Don’t put your stereo on too loud.

Visual Pollution
WHAT IS IT?
Is a term given for unattractive man made or any other thing that people don’t feel comfortable looking at.
This type of pollution is said to be aesthetic, referring to the impact it has on us by not letting us enjoy the view.
Visual pollution limits the ability to view distant objects. The Term Visual pollution is used meaning that things man made cover the good visibility of natural objects.
CAUSES
Can be cause by man, and as well by natural causes. But it is mostly caused by man.
Bill boards announcing stuff, public advertisements everywhere in the city, stop lights, telephone and utility posts, graffiti, litter, etc.
NATURAL CAUSES
Weeds, Algae ,Grass growing where it shouldn’t
EFFECTS
Tourists might not find this very attractive

Solutions
Reducing billboards
Stop graffiti
No littering
Cleaning up, starting with places we visit.
Education. Showing kids to place trash in the right spot, showing them that graffiti is bat etc…

Light Pollution
WHAT IS IT?
Is also known as photo pollution, or luminous pollution.
It is the excessive artificial light.
Light pollution destroys the views of natural stuff.
Light energy refers to energy consumption
More light than what we actually need.
CAUSES
People using excessive lights
Lights on all night
Billboard with neon lights

EFFECTS
Billions of dollars are wasted every year in the U.S
Wasted energy because of too much use
Light pollution consumes lots of valuable natural resources
SOLUTIONS
We can help by putting lights showing to the ground instead of to the air.
By having lights on only when needed
Try to reduce the wattage

We can save the world
The Earth suffers..
The 25% of animals in the earth no longer exist
As we pollute the water, Fish are dying.
The earth is dying..
We are dying
You and I are murderers
Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but Footprints
We will not understand the worth of water ‘till the water is dry

The earth is dying..
STOP POLLUTING

LET’S MAKE A CHANGE !!

CITATIONS!
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Wipe it off!

by Colegio Americano de Guatemala on Jun 07, 2010

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