Land Pollutions

What is land pollution?Land Pollution is the destruction of the earth’s land surfaces, often directly or indirectly as a result of humans’ activities and their misuse of land resources.

Types of land pollution

• Solid Waste• Pesticides and Fertilizers• Chemicals• Deforestation

Sources of land pollution• Agricultural sources• Ashes• Mining sources• Industrial sources• Sewage Treatment• Garbage or waste• Construction sources• Deforestation• Chemical And Nuclear Plants• Oil Refineries

Effects of land pollution

• Land and environment• Toxic material in the soil• Dump sites and landfills

Soil contamination• Soil Pollution:

Human introduce chemical objects into the ground —> ecosystem

• Soil Contamination:

High concentration of chemicals—> when get in touch with live beings is called pollution

• Soil Degradation:

loss of value—> over-farming, over-grazing

• What causes it?

Pesticides,Herbicides, industry water discharge

• consequences:

Plants are affected and other beings

Prevention• Solutions:

Reduce WasteRe-use any items you canRecycling

• Suggested:

Buy biodegradable productsEat food grown without pesticidesDon’t use pesticidesDon’t dump motor oil into the ground

Land pollution factsPAPER:• 1 tonne of recycled paper -> 17 trees are saved

• Recycling needs 70 % less energy than producing new papers

• Every 10 tonnes of paper recycled is 10 tonnes less on its way to landfill.

• UK: 13 million tonnes of paper each year

• Gives Methane (greenhouse gas) when it decomposes

Land pollution facts

METAL:• 1 recycled aluminum can = TV for 3 h

• Aluminum can be recycled as often as you want

• 1 new aluminum can = 20 recycled ones

• Recycling tin cans saves 74 % of energy

Facts• We lose 24 billion tonnes of top soil/ year because of

land pollution

• More than 80 % of the materials in landfills could be recycled

• Every day: enough garbage to fill 63000 garbage trucks

• Each year/person: 3285 pounds of dangerous waste (America)

Made by TES-Association members:

Barbara Kowalska Emilie Westerlund Riccardo Dembech

Natascha Effenberger Simen Skare