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What Is Pollution?

Pollution is anything that makes the earth dirty and unhealthy. Land, air, and water are all affected by pollution.

Pollution takes up space on our land. Many of the things people use every day come in packages, like food, games, school supplies, and electronics. These packages end up in large underground dumps called landfills. Landfills make land unhealthy for animals and people.

Pollution Hurts People & Animals

Pollution is in the air we breathe. Trucks, cars, and school buses leak smoky exhaust from their engines.

Water gets polluted with cleaners, paints, and chemicals. All of the pollution must be removed from our water before we can drink it.

Dumping chemicals into the ocean can hurt sea creatures. This affects human beings, too. People can get sick when they eat the poisoned fish.

Loose garbage takes away from the natural beauty of the earth. When trash is not put away, people and animals get exposed to things that could hurt them, like broken glass and harmful chemicals.

How Can We Stop Pollution?

As long as people live on the earth, there is no way to completely stop pollution. Humans use a lot of stuff! We can pollute a lot less, though.

We can give away the video games, toys, and books that we no longer use. This way they will not end up in a landfill.

Plastic, paper, glass, and other materials can sometimes be recycled or made into something else. Always look for a place to recycle something before just throwing it in the trash. If trash cannot be recycled, at least put it in a trash can instead of leaving it on the ground!

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Some of the things people do cause harm to the earth. We cause pollution when we make our water, land, and air dirty. In this lesson, you will...

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Landfills are areas where garbage is placed in the land. Modern landfills in developed countries are designed to keep harmful chemicals from polluting the water. Some of the newest landfills even try to capture methane gas from escaping and use it do produce energy.

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Different kinds of land pollution have been known to have adverse affects on the health of animals and humans. The harmful chemicals that can get into the soil and water can cause cancers, deformities, and skin problems

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Land pollution can be one of the most visible types of pollution. You see trash outside of buildings or on the side of the road. You may see a large landfill or dump. This type of land pollution not only can hurt animals and their habitats, but also is ugly and destroys the beauty of nature.

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Garbage - The average person in the United States produces around 4 1/2 pounds of trash every day! That's a lot of trash. Some of this trash gets recycled, but much of it ends up in a landfill or on the ground.

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When we first think of pollution we often think of trash by the side of the road. This type of pollution is called land pollution. Land pollution is anything that damages or contaminates the land.

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Solid Waste
These include all the various kinds of rubbish we make at home, school, hospitals, market and workplaces. Things like paper, plastic containers, bottles, cans, food and even used cars and broken electronic goods, broken furniture and hospital waste are all examples of solid waste.