Pollution Prevention

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Introduction

Pollution is the contamination of air, land, or water by the discharge harmful substances (EPA, 2014). This refers to unwarranted volumes of waste that contains very harmful toxins/poisons that are released into the environment affecting air, water, soil, and animals. Humans cause majority of the pollution. Industrial factories that make items that we use in our day-to-day lives also produce waste. With the population nearly doubling in the 1800s early1900s and the introduction of the industrial age thus pollution became a severe issue. Industrial plants that produce by products that have the potential to cause harm to the environment and the public. This topic has many industrial plants searching for ways to change the production and the way many of the raw materials that produce these substances are used.
The burning of fossil fuels, gas operated vehicles add with the quality of the air.
This burning of these fuels supplies large amounts of air pollution. Pollution particular air pollution damage the Earth’s atmosphere and damage animals and plants. Pollut...

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