The document discusses the urgent responsibility of the global community to address environmental pollution, emphasizing its various forms, including air, water, soil, and noise pollution. It advocates for individual action through reducing, reusing, and recycling waste, while highlighting the importance of education to raise awareness about environmental issues. The conclusion stresses that immediate and effective measures are required to ensure sustainable development and protect the planet for future generations.

1. THE ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION-WHOSE
RESPONSIBILITY?
By SURESH.S

2. INTRODUCTION:
•It has been only in the last few decades that the global community has
realized that we have the responsibility to deliver a clean and peaceful planet to
our future generations. It has been only in the past few years that the global
community has begun to take this realisation seriously and move from
theoretical commitments to the actual implementation of corrective measures to
change polluting and destructive practices and activities.

3. WHAT IS POLLUTION?
• pollution is the introduction of
contaminants into a natural environment,
that causes instability, disorder, harm or
discomfort to the ecosystem (i.e) physical
systems or living organisms.

4. WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT?
•our environment is our surrounding. this
includes living and non-living things around
us. the non-living components of
environment are land, water and air. the
living components are germs, plants,
animals and people.

5. WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION?
•The definition of environmental
pollution would be the introduction of
different harmful pollutants into certain
environment that make this environment
unhealthy to live in. The most common
pollutants are usually chemicals,
garbage, and wastewater

6. DIFFERENT TYPES OF POLLUTION
•Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals,
particulate matter, or biological materials,
that cause harm or discomfort to humans or
other living organisms, or cause damage to
the natural environment or built
environment, into the atmosphere
• Vehicle emissions are responsible for 70%
of the country’s air pollution

7. DIFFERENT TYPES OF POLLUTION
•Water pollution is the contamination of
water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans and
groundwater). Water pollution occurs when
pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly
into water bodies without adequate treatment
to remove harmful compounds
•According to a recent study by the US
National Center for Ecological Analysis
41% of the world's oceans have been strongly
effected by pollution.

8. DIFFERENT TYPES OF POLLUTION
•Soil pollution is defined as the build-up in
soils of persistent toxic compounds,
chemicals, salts, radioactive materials, or
disease causing agents , which have adverse
effects on plant growth and animal health.

9. DIFFERENT TYPES OF POLLUTION
•noise pollution is defined as when unwanted
sound created by human beings hits our ears
and disturbs the environment, noise pollution
is created. Chiefly, noise pollution comes from
barking dogs, loud music, vehicles, aircraft
and rail transport, air-conditioners, factories,
amplified music and construction work.

10. WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT?
•Too many people have the attitude that what they can’t see doesn’t really
exist. If pollution or an ecological threat is not visible in their own
community, they believe their lives will not be affected. This is a
convenient but dangerous concept. It is only by constant and vigorous
early efforts that global problems can be successfully attacked and thereby
controlled.

11. “IF I ONLY HAD THE TIME”
•How many times have you passed an dump site on the side of the road
and thought, “Someone should do something about that.”? How many
times have you put off something you know should be done because you
just “don’t have the time” to do it right now?
•I cannot count the times , I have said, “I’m going to start recycling
tomorrow.” Yet tomorrow never arrives because it would take so much
effort on my part to initiate the activity.

12. “IF I AM THE ONLY ONE PERSON”
•The environmental problems which we face seem overwhelming. It’s easy
to think that the problems are too big for us to tackle on
our own. The problems we have caused were not instigated by one person
but by all of us as a group. Therefore, we all have a responsibility to
do our part in finding a solution. If each individual makes his best
effort in his own life to progress , the combination of all our efforts will be
worthwhile and effective.

13. “IT’S OUR RESPONSIBILITY”
•We do not have an indefinite amount of time to correct or control
environmental problems. The further the process continues, the more work
we have to do to compensate. Already we have put into motion a chain
of events which will proceed for years The problem is not in whether we
are doing enough to make a change but in whether we are doing it quickly
enough to reverse the damage we have already done.

14. WHAT CAN BE DONE?
• REDUCE - The biggest thing we can do to limit our waste production is to
reduce the amount of waste we make . some methods;
I. Can buy products which are more durable
II. Buy products which have been made from recycled goods.
III.buy energy-efficient appliances, we use less electricity in our homes.
IV. Reduction in our mode of transportation .
V. Waste Water must be recycled.

15. REUSE:
•REUSE - Another method of reducing waste is by using items as many
times
some methods;
I. Plastic zipper bags for food storage can be washed after use and re-
used for another food item.
II. Old towels which are tattered can be cut up and made into cleaning
clothes.
III.Paper which has only been used on one side can be converted into pads
for making grocery lists or tracking telephone messages

16. RECYCLE THE PRODUCTS:
•RECYCLE - After we have reduced
and reused as much as possible, we should
try To recycle as much of our waste as
possible . some examples; Aluminum cans,
plastic containers, cardboard, glass, and
paper are among the major ones.
•recently cellphones &electronic items can
also be recycled

17. Some items that
can be recycled
or reused
• For example recycling a
Paper:
• Each ton (2000 pounds) of
recycled paper can save:
• 3.5 cubic yards of landfill
• 17 thirty foot (pulp) trees
• 7,000 gallons of water
• 380 gallons of oil
• 4100 kwh of energy
• And, at the same time eliminate
60 pounds of air pollutants
• The amount of wood and paper
we throw away each year is
enough to heat 50,000,000
homes for 20 years.
Paper Old copies
paper Old books
Paper bags
Newspapers
Old greeting cards
Cardboard box
Plastic Containers
Bottles
Bags
Sheets Glass and
ceramics Bottles
Plates
Cup
Bowls
Miscellaneous Old
cans
Utensils
Clothes
Furniture
Proof with Eg:

18. EDUCATE PEOPLE FOR CREATING
AWARENESSS!
• One of the best ways we can help environmental causes is to educate people.
This does not require that everyone become a teacher in a public
school. Rather, it requires that we educate the people with whom we
associate. We need to teach our children to respect the environment, to leave
an area as clean as it was when we found it. We need to remind our friends
that throwing trash on the road has negative effects on society and causes
money to be wasted on employing someone to clean up after them. We need to
teach others how to reduce, reuse, and recycle. But the most effective method of
teaching others is by setting a good example.
if we initiate ,people will be attracted by our attitude.

19. CONCLUSION:
•As we move into a new century, and millennium, the global community is
running out of time. Clearly the implementation of measures to achieve
sustainable development must be increased and accelerated. This is
especially the case with respect to preventing the release of toxic substances
and hazardous waste generation, without which sustainable development will
remain merely a dream.