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The environment is a hotly debated topic in today's society. Some of the subtopics that are going to be discussed are going to be those related to the way
technology is changing, what industries are doing to help prevent further pollution, some of the methods used in paper recycling, and some discussion of renewable
energy sources.
There are currently three main sources of pollution: they are, water pollution, waste pollution, and air pollution. Of these three forms of pollution, the one that
affects our health most directly is air pollution. Scientists believe that all cities with populations exceeding 50,000 have some degree of air pollution. Some sources
of air emissions, to auto emissions, and even house hold product emissions such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), once found in abundance in spray containers and
has been drastically reduced in these products.
Air Pollution has been that target of some of the most complicated legislation ever discussed. In 1970, the United States Congress passed legislation aimed at
curbing sources of air pollution and setting standards for air quality. One of the strongest weapons against industrial pollution that many factories are currently
using to combat air pollution is a scrubber. A scrubber is a series of filters placed in smoke stacks and other points of industrial emissions to try and filter out many
of the contaminants that tend to be released into the atmosphere.
In addition to factory emissions, auto emission pollutants have also been reduced by the use of a tool that has been around for quite some time, the catalytic
converter. Because gasoline is not completely utilized upon combustion, many toxic gases are able to escape in the form of exhaust. A catalytic converter...
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