2. What is land pollution?
Land Pollution is the destruction of the earth’s
land surfaces, often directly or indirectly as a
result of humans’ activities and their misuse of
land resources.
3. Types of land pollution
• Solid Waste
• Pesticides and Fertilizers
• Chemicals
• Deforestation
4. Sources of land pollution
• Agricultural sources
• Ashes
• Mining sources
• Industrial sources
• Sewage Treatment
• Garbage or waste
• Construction sources
• Deforestation
• Chemical And Nuclear Plants
• Oil Refineries
5. Effects of land pollution
• Land and environment
• Toxic material in the soil
• Dump sites and landfills
6. Soil contamination
• Soil Pollution:
Human introduce chemical objects into the ground —> ecosystem
• Soil Contamination:
High concentration of chemicals—> when get in touch with live beings is called pollution
• Soil Degradation:
loss of value—> over-farming, over-grazing
• What causes it?
Pesticides,Herbicides, industry water discharge
• consequences:
Plants are affected and other beings
7. Prevention
• Solutions:
Reduce Waste
Re-use any items you can
Recycling
• Suggested:
Buy biodegradable products
Eat food grown without pesticides
Don’t use pesticides
Don’t dump motor oil into the ground
8. Land pollution facts
PAPER:
• 1 tonne of recycled paper -> 17 trees are saved
• Recycling needs 70 % less energy than producing new papers
• Every 10 tonnes of paper recycled is 10 tonnes less on its way
to landfill.
• UK: 13 million tonnes of paper each year
• Gives Methane (greenhouse gas) when it decomposes
9. Land pollution facts
METAL:
• 1 recycled aluminum can = TV for 3 h
• Aluminum can be recycled as often as you want
• 1 new aluminum can = 20 recycled ones
• Recycling tin cans saves 74 % of energy
10. Facts
• We lose 24 billion tonnes of top soil/ year because of
land pollution
• More than 80 % of the materials in landfills could be
recycled
• Every day: enough garbage to fill 63000 garbage
trucks
• Each year/person: 3285 pounds of dangerous waste
(America)
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12. Made by TES-Association members:
Barbara Kowalska
Emilie Westerlund
Riccardo Dembech
Natascha Effenberger
Simen Skare
