Air Pollution within Peru
Introduction
Pollutants and toxic wastes have been one of the major contributors to air pollution and other toxic smog. More recently, Peru has seen higher levels of air pollution than it has even seen before. These extremely high levels have been mainly due to the high emissions from automobiles that contain many harmful gases; to people and the environment. Despite many efforts that are being taken to improve the state in which Peru’s environment is currently in, not much change has actually been seen. The emergence of air pollution around Peru has been quite rapid as many older cars are producing more emissions than they use to and factories are increasing the amount they put out into the air. Lima the capital of Peru (seen in Figure 1)
suffers from the worst air pollution among all other Latin American capitals with many toxic chemicals such as nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide, two which are very harmful to humans and the environment. Humans are not supposed to be exposed to such chemicals thus different negative effects have come from exposure. The degree of harm that Peru is currently is in very high and serious actions need to be taken in order to assure it can stabilize itself and return to average levels of pollution. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of toxic emissions within Peru and to recommend solutions to manage these impacts.
Description
Peru which has a population of roughly seven million people experiences some of the most frequent and worst concentrations of air pollution. Concentration levels taken between 2001 and 2005 averaged around 185 micrograms per cubic meter of air, which placed Lima in the top 10 percentile for the most exposure of pollutants amon...
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...ently a major problem in Peru due to large amounts of toxins from automobiles and factories, however with the few suggested solutions Peru may be able to bounce back and keep pollution levels at normal.
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