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We decided to do 2 different experiments on soil pollution. EXPERIMENT 1: We got some soil and put them in 5 different pots and planted green pepper in it. We wanted to see what happened when we water these peppers with different ‘ water ’.
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EXPERIMENT 1: Wegotsomesoiland put them in 5 differentpotsandplantedgreenpepper in it.
Wewantedtoseewhathappenedwhenwewaterthesepepperswithdifferent ‘water’.
Olive is one of themainincomesources in Orhangazi. Oliveproducerspourthewater (in whichtheywasholive) intothesoil.Againanothermainindustry is pickle. Therearemanycompaniesproducingpickle in thevillages. Thesecompaniespourtheirwasteintothesoil. Onebigpollution problem is usedoil. Manycitizenspourtheoiljustintothesoil in theirgardenortothetrash bin orjustintothesinkafterusing it.Anotherbig problem is thechemicalsused in agriculture. Most of thesechemicalsareappliedwithwatering.
Wedecidedtowatertheseedswithdifferenttypes of water. Ineachtype of waterwewouldmixolivewater, wasteoil, picklewater, andchemicals. One of themwould be wateredwith tap water. Wecouldmeasureonlytheheight of theplants. Althoughweintendedtohavethesoilandplantexamined in labs, wecouldn’tfindsuch a lab in ourarea.Herearethegrowingresults:
EXPERIMENT 2: Inthisexperimentwecollectedsoilfromdifferentplaces in Orhangazi. Therearemanyfactories in ourtownincludingheavyindustry.
Of coursewecollectedsoilfrom ‘clean’ places, too. Herearetheresults:
One of the biggest factories in Orhangazi called ‘Asil Çelik’ producing steel
A village near Mount Ulu, which is famous for its clean air and green environment. CUMALIKIZIK