User:Politicaladventure/Pollution in the United States
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[edit]1: Waste
[edit]Plastic Waste
[edit][edit] Main article: Plastic pollution
In a 2015 study, the scientists also published a chart listing the top 20 nations contributing plastic waste, which has since been widely circulated. The top five plastic polluters included China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand. The United States ranked twentieth, the only wealthy nation on the list. “We were not attempting to re-do the 2015 study,” says Kara Lavender Law, a marine scientist at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the new study’s lead author. “The whole point was to examine the United States.” Analysing, 2016 data, the team found that as much as 3 percent of all plastic waste generated in the U.S. was either littered or illegally dumped in the environment. In all, the United States contributed up to 2.24 million metric tons into the environment in 2016, and of that, more than half—1.5 million metric tons—was along coastlines, meaning it had a high probability of slipping into the oceans.
Waste Management
[edit]Waste Management is heavily controlled by the influence of Landfills. However, as results have spoken, we have seen that it has led to many issues worldwide and even thru the United States. In an article from the Springer Lake, it states, "it is revealed that landfilling is associated with various environmental pollution problems".[1] Down below is the list to the landfills that are spread throughout the United States.
2: Water
[edit][edit] Main article: Water pollution in the United States
Freshwater
[edit][edit] In a report published in the November 12, 2008 online issue of Environmental Science and Technology, researchers found that freshwater pollution by phosphorus and nitrogen costs U.S. government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion annually. Of that, they calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution. Currently, all through the United States, more than half of the rivers and lakes that span through the country don't meet standards required from environmental regulations. A large percentage of individuals living throughout America receive drinking water from such sources in which don't meet regulations for safe water to use.[2]
Furthermore, underwater pollution can lead to carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic effects to many individuals who are exposed to these pollutants
3: Air
[edit][edit] Main article: Air pollution in the United States
Air pollution is caused predominantly by burning fossil fuels, cars, and much more. Natural sources of air pollution include forest fires, volcanic eruptions, wind erosion, pollen dispersal, evaporation of organic compounds, and natural radioactivity. These natural sources of pollution often soon disperse and thin settling near their locale. However, major natural events such as volcanic activity can convey throughout the air spreading, thinning, and settling over continents. Fossil fuel burning for heating, electrical generation, and in motor vehicles are responsible for about 90% of all air pollution in the United States.
As the United States advances through the future, we see that our country has become more green with difference modes of electric transportation and decreased rates of pollution from plants across the country! [3]
POSSIBLY COULD ADD A SECTION TO THE ARTICLE ABOUT HOW POLLUTION IS GETTING BETTER NOWADAYS! WILL LOOK INTO THIS
Air
[edit]Air pollution is caused predominantly by burning fossil fuels, cars, and much more.[4] Natural sources of air pollution include forest fires, volcanic eruptions, wind erosion, pollen dispersal, evaporation of organic compounds, and natural radioactivity. These natural sources of pollution often soon disperse and thin settling near their locale. However, major natural events such as volcanic activity can convey throughout the air spreading, thinning, and settling over continents.[5] Fossil fuel burning for heating, electrical generation, and in motor vehicles are responsible for about 90% of all air pollution in the United States.[6]
The Problem that is found with Greenhouse Gas Emission and Climate Change is that both of these topics relate more globally than locally within the United States of America. Because of this, the amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions isn't fully dependable on the United States alone, it is being affected by globally causing issues for the United States in order to control the spread.[7]
Downwards Trend of Pollution
[edit]Downfall Trend
[edit]In recent years, air and water pollution has decreased quite significantly however we still tend to see a rise in greenhouse gas emissions leading to the global warming. When measuring results of water pollution harm to the environment, we see a lower percentage of harm compared to tine a couple years back where levels of environmental harm was quite high. Similarly, air pollution has also seen a decline as we see that wildlife have had more significant progress as also with marine life.[8]
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References
[edit]- ^ Siddiqua, Ayesha; Hahladakis, John N.; Al-Attiya, Wadha Ahmed K. A. (2022-08-01). "An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping". Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29 (39): 58514–58536. doi:10.1007/s11356-022-21578-z. ISSN 1614-7499. PMC 9399006. PMID 35778661.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ^ Keiser, David A.; Shapiro, Joseph S. (2019-11-01). "US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 33 (4): 51–75. doi:10.1257/jep.33.4.51. ISSN 0895-3309.
- ^ Kahn, Matthew E. (2022-06-01). "Economic Geography and Pollution: A Comment on Joseph S. Shapiro's "Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Past Half Century"". Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 16 (2): 357–360. doi:10.1086/721098. ISSN 1750-6816.
- ^ Shapiro, Susan G. (2005). Environment And Global Community. IDEA. ISBN 978-1932716122.
- ^ Miller, G. Tyler Jr. Living in the Environment. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1987.
- ^ Bloom, Paul R. 'Environmental Encyclopedia. Acid Rain' . Detroit: Gale Research International Limited, 1994.
- ^ Shapiro, Joseph S. (2022-01-01). "Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Past Half Century". Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 16 (1): 42–61. doi:10.1086/718054. ISSN 1750-6816.
- ^ Shapiro, Joseph S. (2022-01-01). "Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Past Half Century". Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 16 (1): 42–61. doi:10.1086/718054. ISSN 1750-6816.