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The pollutants

The Sources

The Impacts

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The European Parliament agreed to prohibit single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws, and stirrers as part of a comprehensive plan to combat plastic trash that pollutes beaches and oceans. Employees in the United Kingdom believe that by 2025, all plastic bottles should be made of 25% recycled material, and by 2029, 90% of them should be recycled. According to TheGuardian, Europeans generate more than 25 million tons of plastic waste each year, yet only about a third of it is collected for recycling. Plastic makes up more than 80% of ocean debris. Many laws have been enacted to prohibit the use of q-tips, cotton balls, and other wipes that block sewer pipes. These are significant advances in reducing litter in the water. It's the most important. The environmental impact is that it destroys marine life, and most of the items are non-biodegradable, such as plastic straws.
The pollutants

Plastic
The Sources

Human waste

Trash

Litter

Domestic Waste
The Impacts

Marine wildlife such as seabirds, whales, fish and turtles mistake plastic waste for prey; most then die of starvation as their stomachs become filled with plastic.
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Point Source Pollution
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Persistent
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Chronic
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Primary

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A vast underground storage of methane had a broken pipe and there was a large methane leak near the happy-go-lucky community located in California. Nearly 2,200 families were evacuated from this place due to health problem reports. Methane is a greenhouse gas that contaminates the planet’s atmosphere and it leads to global warming. This underground storage produced a quarter of the state’s total emissions. This problem was resolved by drilling two relief wells and then inserting a mud-chemical cocktail.

The pollutants

Methane.

The Sources

An underground storage of methane.

The Impacts

Health problems on the people and more contamination on the atmosphere which leads to global warming.

Identify if Point or Non-Point Source Pollution

Point source pollution.

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable

Persistent.

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Chronic.

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Primary pollutant.

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Acid rain is affecting the USA lakes making them jelly which is when acid reduces the biological availability of calcium in lakes. Acid rain affects the food web. Scientists have known about acid rain for years but in 1979 it became a bigger problem that brought attention to the world. Acid rain can kill fish and aquatic life as well as it affects the soil in forests. The acid would stay for years in the ecosystem.

The pollutants

sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX)

The Sources

Power plants are the biggest source of acid rain

The Impacts

The impacts include the death of aquatic life and terrestrial life. It lasts for many years in the environment

Identify if Point or Nonpoint Source Pollution

It's non-point pollution because it comes from many sources all around the country and world.

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable

Persistent because it will no go away from the environment in many years, afetting the population and wildlife

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Its chronic because it toxic

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Its secondary because the chemicals will mix with water in the clouds and then it will rain

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This article discusses how polar bears' brains are being damaged by chemical pollution, specifically mad-made chemical (perfluorinated). This study demonstrates how polar bears' exposure to a large variety of chemicals causes stress and brain impairment. Different signal molecules and enzymes in the bears' brain are disrupted. It affects the polar bears' behavior, hormone balance, and capacity to live in addition to the brain.

The pollutants:

Chemical pollutants, man-made chemicals (perfluorinated)

The sources:
Industrial and commercial products

The impacts:

Polar bears’ brain damage, which it affects the whole food web.

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Non-point source pollution

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Persistent

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Chronic

Identify primary or secondary:

Secondary

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summary: Last year, a study estimated that around eight million metric tons of our plastic waste enters the oceans from land each year. Our new estimate of floating microplastic is up to 37 times higher than previous estimates. That’s equivalent to the mass of more than 1,300 blue whales Floating microplastics collected in plankton nets are the best-quantified type of plastic debris in the ocean, in part because they were initially noted by researchers collecting and studying plankton decades ago. Yet microplastics represent just part of the total amount of plastic now in the ocean

pollutants: cigarette lighters, bottle caps, bottles, wrappers, and  straws or bags

sources: Human plastic waste

impacts: Our new estimate of floating microplastic is up to 37 times higher than previous estimates. That’s equivalent to the mass of more than 1,300 blue whales. But ocean plastics pose a threat to a wide variety of marine animals, and their risk is determined by the amount of debris an animal encounters

point or non point pollution: non point pollution

persistent or biodegradable: is a persistent pollutant

acute or chronic: acute

primary or secondary: primary

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On May 20, 2015, BoyanSlat founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup announced to the world that they will create the first system that cleans up plastic pollution from the oceans. The system will span 2000 meters in the ocean by catching plastic before it gets to Tsushima Island.  After 5 years later The Ocean Cleanup plans to clean up half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The pollutants: Plastic

The Sources: All trash that ended up in the ocean.

The Impacts: Each year one cubic meter of plastic pollution is being washed in Tsushima Island.

Identify if Point or Non-Point Source Pollution:
I think it's non-point source pollution since you don't know where all the plastic comes from.

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable: I think it's persistent since all the plastic does not decompose really fast.

Identify if Acute or Chronic: Chronic

Identify if it is primary or secondary: Primary

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Summary: In January 2019,  Brazil faced one of it’s biggest industrial and environmental tragedies. This occurred in Brumadinho, a municipality in the South of the country. This region is known for being a place full of iron and ore mines. The afternoon of January 25, a tailing dam from the Vale mining company, suffered a terrible failure which released a huge toxic mudflow which razed through the mine’s offices, cafeteria and all nearby houses and buildings. This catastrophe destroyed the town and resulted in 270 dead people.

The pollutants: Toxic mud containing nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide, etc.

The sources: Tailing dam

The impacts: Terrible destruction of the city, over 270 casualties and immense pollution that remained from the toxic mudflow.

Identify if Point or Non-Point source pollution: This incident is an example of point source pollution since we’re able to directly blame the tailing dam that caused the incident.

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable: Persistent pollutant

Identify if Acute or Chronic: the damages were instant after the dam failure.

Identifiy if it is primary or secondary: primary

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The Odd even car regulation in Delhi is failing to reduce pollution. This regulation, which can be related to the one we can find in Quito, Ecuador, consists of allowing and restricting the circulation of vehicles according to the ending number of their plate. Even though pollution hasn't been reduced at all, at least congestion has decreased solving one of the city's problems. The target of this restriction was pollution, however it fixed another problem.
- The Pollutants
Carbon Dioxide CO2
- The Sources
Cars
- The Impacts
Affectation to the atmosphere and an increase in greenhouse effect
-Point or Non- Point Source Pollution
Non- Point Source Pollution
- Persistent or Biodegradable
Persistent
- Acute or Chronic
Chronic
- Primary or secondary
Primary

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On Scotland's North Sea coast, researchers have found whales which have high levels of toxins present in all of their organs. Specifically, mercury and cadmium were the toxins found in all organs, including the brain. Researchers demonstrated that the rising levels of mercury in the Oceans can lead to high levels of stress in long~lived marine mammals.

Pollutants ~

mercury and cadmium

The sources ~

Industrial revolution and through gold mining activities

The impacts ~

Out of the 31 mammals which beached only 10 could be refloated and 21 - 16 females and five males - died. Also high levels of stress in long~lived marine mammals.

Point pollutant ~

Gold mining activities

Persistent or Biodegradable ?

Persistent

Acute or Chronic?

Chronic

primary or secondary?

Primary

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maria julia dousdebes/ cocaine in shrimp

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Researchers in England have found cocaine in shrimp, it was tested on a rural area and was discovered after taking samples from 15 different locations across Suffolk. The studies got to the conclusion that the cocaine appeared because of micro-pollutants in freshwater shrimps. With the cocaine drugs such as Ketamine, pesticides and pharmaceuticals were also found in the shrimp collected.

The pollutants

Cocaine, Ketamine, pesticides and pharmaceuticals.

The Sources

The pollutants get to the environment because people use them and the everyday things that are used usually find a way into the environment.

The Impacts

Drugs being inside an animal who are part of the food chain is a problem because it could get to the human system.

Identify if Point or Nonpoint Source Pollution

Both can be argued because it can be pointed that waste water is responsible for taking the drugs and the pharmaceuticals into the ocean but it is also nonpoint because there is no specific source (company or exact place) that determines where the cocaine comes from.

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable

Persistent because even though cocaine is made by plants it stays on the shrimp tissues and can be dangerous to people that consume this shrimp.

Identify if Acute or Chronic

chronic, because of the different areas the cocaine was found and the difficulty that taking everything out of the ocean has.

Identify if it is primary or secondary

primary, because there are no more chemicals created.

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Summary: The summary of this article consists in the amount of trash that Americans produce everyday, being 4.4 pound per person per day, and the commercial garbage incinerator in 20 years of usage incinerating 3,000 tons of trash a day. The article says the commercial incinerator makes the the act of incinerating into electricity for thousands of homes.
The pollutants:
Gas emission, CO2 act of incinerating.
The sources:  food materials, plastics, cardboard, rubber, metal, paper, wood, fabric, chemicals etc.
The impacts:
The impacts includes the harm in the environment because some products to not decompose or takes a long time to decompose; the burning of waste affects the ozone layer creating global warming.
Point or non point:
Non point pollution, comes from everywhere around the world/can be found everywhere.
Identify if persistent or biodegradable:
Persistent because solid domestic waste will always happen and it may increase if not controlled or if no decomposing materials are used.
Identify if acute or chronic:
Chronic because causes illnesses and toxins.
Primary or secondary:
Secondary because chemicals and toxins can mix with soil causing agricultural productions a negative impact.

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Bees are dying in record numbers, and the health of US honeybee hives continues to be dismal. In 2009, the agency commenced a long, slow process of reassessing them—not as a class, but rather one by one (there are five altogether).  Meanwhile, tens of millions of acres of farmland are treated with neonics each year, and the health of US honeybee hives continues to be dismal. The report card was so dire that the EPA "could potentially take action" to "restrict or limit the use" of the chemical by the end of this year, an agency spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement.

The pollutants

Overall, bees taken from more polluted areas were considerably more likely to be flecked with harmful heavy metals such as arsenic and lead.

The Sources

The government admits that an extremely common pesticide is at least partially to blame, which means that bees could be exposed to dangerous levels of imidacloprid, but data on how much of the pesticide appears in soybean pollen and nectar is "unavailable," according to Bayer and independent researchers. Oops. To be sure, imidacloprid has been approved for use by the EPA since the 1990s.

The Impacts

their impact on bees, neonic pesticides may also harm birds, butterflies, and water-borne invertebrates, recent studies suggest.

Identify if Point or Non-Point Source Pollution

Point source because we know that the pesticides are the ones affecting them

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable

Persistent

Identify if Acute or Chronic

it is chronic

Identifiy if it is primary or secondary

Secondary

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Lebanon is currently facing a trash crisis where people who don’t properly dispose of their trash are polluting the soil and also creating and spreading diseases that affect all citizens. Lebanon is currently facing the Beirut trash crisis and back in 2012, they faced a waste crisis among palestinian communities. There have been a lot of protests where citizens are asking the government for a clean-up because it is very difficult to live surrounded by all the trash and people can’t take it anymore. Even though efforts have been made by protestors, it is very difficult for the government to take action and this is what people will need to develop techniques to survive on their own.

The pollutants:

Plastics, bottles, paper, wrappers and especially anything related to solid domestic waste that families consume.

The Sources:

The food that has been wasted and improperly disposed comes from supermarkets and local shops because this is where the waste and plastic is manufactured and then wasted. Also, when this food is disposed of, it goes to landfills and the lack of management and care of these landfills leads to the trash spreading.

The Impacts:

There are a lot of people in Lebanon who are suffering from respiratory issues and also in some cases cholera. Also, the city is very messy and little by little people are starting to move out, this affects the economy as well.

Identify if Point or Nonpoint Source Pollution:

It is a point source of pollution because it is evident where the trash comes from. The trash can be traced back to landfills and homes where people waste it.

Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable:

It is persistent because trash in most cases is not biodegradable.

Identify if Acute or Chronic:

The waste crisis is chronic because it keeps evolving and advancing in time. Even though it has a direct and immediate impact, the damage increases chronically and by time.

Identify if it is primary or secondary:

It is primary because the trash and more specifically plastics in some cases are oiled based which means that they can get attached and merged with other things which contaminate the environment.

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Summary: In London, diesel fumes are causing the biggest health problem ever since the Black Death. In just 8 days, the air pollution limit has been breached in the English capital. The EU demands that the maximum NO2 concentrations shall not be exceeded for over 18 hours a day, and West London has recorded their 19th hour with the high levels, which is already breaching its limits. In Oxford street, the legal limits of the toxic gas for the entirety of 2015 were breached the next year in just 2 days. These new heavy breezes in the streets of London began causing breathing problems among the population.

The Pollutants: Nitrogen dioxide from diesel
The Sources: Land vehicles
The Impacts: Rising health problems and regulation of vehicle usage around the United Kingdom
Identify if Point or Non-Point Pollution: Non-point pollution
Persistent or Biodegradable: Persistent
Acute or Chronic: Chronic
Primary or Secondary: Primary

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Flint water crisi: The flint river wich passes directly from the city of flint. These has served as a wate disposal from many local industries, and that has recieved a city waste plant, agricular, and urban runoff and toxic landfills. The city in 2011 diced to stop the waste plant for its resident, and they were complaining because of their way of living.
Pollutans, sources: Lead, Legionella Bacteria, caused by landfills, raw sewage and waste from companies.
Impacts: skin rashes, hair loss, physical symptoms like weakness due to the levels of bacteria in water, Eleveted blood levels and Legionnarie diseas.
These is a nonpoint source pollution
Prisisten
Chronic
Secondary

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Summary- The U.S senate passes ban on plastic microbeads since its causing big time pollution thats affecting the environment and climate change. Starting in July 2017, the Microbead-Free Waters Act would prohibit the manufacture of microbeads, followed by a prohibition on the manufacture of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and the sale of cosmetics using microbeads in July 2018. In July 2019, sales of over-the-counter medications containing microbeads will be prohibited. Adding that microbeads are a real danger for fish and wildlife population and by banning them they would not only save the environment but the animals living in it.
Pollutants-Plastic
The Sources-Cosmetics and pharmaceutical products are the main use of microbeads.
The impacts- It creates a lot of pollution and it puts in danger fishes and wildlife in general.
Identify if Point or Nonpoint Source Pollution- Non-point since it comes from many things and places.
Identify if Persistent or Biodegradable-
Biodegradable because if they ban the use of it it might go away, but the ones that have already been put to use won't disappear for a while.
Identify if Acute or Chronic- Chronic cause it's harmful and toxic for wildlife.
Identify if it is primary or secondary- Secondary because it mixes with other ingredients to fulfilled a product, for example toothpaste.