Essays on Pollution

Pollution, also called environmental pollution, is the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.

Major forms of pollution include air pollution, light pollution, litter, noise pollution, plastic pollution, soil contamination, radioactive contamination, thermal pollution, visual pollution, and water pollution.

Natural pollution (volcanoes, wildfires), human-generated pollution (motor vehicle emissions, hazardous wastes), greenhouse gases emissions (carbon dioxide).

Recycling, reusing, waste minimisation, mitigating, pollution control and prevention, compost.

Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people.
Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.
People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.
Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water.