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Land Pollution

Land Pollution. By: Maddie, Grace, Alyssa, Deandra, and Dominique. What is Land Pollution?. Land pollution can contribute and help contaminate the air and water. Land pollution is caused by man-made actions. Land Pollution affects the soil on the Earth.

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Land Pollution

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  1. Land Pollution By: Maddie, Grace, Alyssa, Deandra, and Dominique

  2. What is Land Pollution? Land pollution can contribute and help contaminate the air and water. • Land pollution is caused by man-made actions. • Land Pollution affects the soil on the Earth. • Also affects the health of humans, animals, and plants. (http://www.northampton.gov.uk/images/Image1_9_.jpg)

  3. How's Land Pollution caused? • Caused by trash and toxic wastes humans leave on the land. • Lack of recycling which leads to filling up landfills. • Chemical plants and coal-fired plants cause land pollution. • Another cause is acid rain and trash that washes ashore from boats and sewage outlets. • Disposing resources too quickly.

  4. How does land pollution affect us? • Land pollution pollutes the environment and our ecosystems. • It causes health problems like birth defects, cancer, and respiratory problems. • It can harm wildlife like plants and animals.

  5. What if land pollution isn't fixed? • Land will become unreliable for life and our agriculture. • Land pollution becomes hazardous to our health. • Landfills and waste dumps increase in size. Which takes up a lot of land and space from wildlife and humans.

  6. Why may people not want to help stop land pollution? Land pollution has already escalated to a point where it can’t be helped by human beings. • No time or patience to recycle and use organic products. • People argue that preventing this issue is too expensive, impossible, and unimportant.

  7. How do we stop land pollution? Using the 3 R’s: Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle. • Recycle and dispose of trash correctly. • Help clean up the environment by cleaning parks and roads. • Recycle so that the items you recycle can be made into bridges, cars, freezers, and benches.

  8. How else can we help stop land pollution? With the amount of land pollution we have now, it’s very hard to erase. We can’t get rid of the pollution that’s already there but we can prevent and control any future land pollution. • Try using products that don’t have a lot of packaging to throw away. Buy items that are sold in reusable containers and buy biodegradable products.

  9. Bibliography • (n. d.). Retrieved March 2009, from Causes and Effects of Land Pollution: http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/causes-and-effects-of-land-pollution-4470.html • Environment Science. (2002, May). Retrieved March 10, 2009, from Pollution: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cy34/ • Green Footsteps. (2006). Retrieved March 2009, from Land Pollution: http://www.greenfootsteps.com/cause-of-land-pollution.html • Levine, M. (2004). Biology. Upper Saddle River : Pearson Education .

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