Pollution

The BP oil spill can refer to either the

BP oil spill of March 2, 2006 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

BP oil spill of April 20, 2010 in the Macondo Prospect oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

-Animals can eat it and it can shred their insides.
-Plasticizers can leak out of plastics and kill plants and animals
-The production of plastics uses energy (probably from a coal/gas power stations)
-If burned, plastics can release various deadly or toxic chemicals into the atmosphere

If you read up on some simple GCSE science (Unit: Chemistry 1b) the basics of production of plastics are there. Many chemicals used in plastics can be very harmful if brought out of the polymer chains they're in.

Pollution can hurt the environment because things such as plastic can take thousands of years to deteriorate, just think, every plastic thing you throw out will outlive you, your children, your grandchildren, their grandchildren . . . Also the making of some things cause green house gasses, which therefore cause global warming. This is likely to melt Antarctica one day, causing millions to have to leave their homes, because they will be underwater, this may cause crowding, and other problems. Also, global warming can cause imbalances that make more natural problems, like hurricanes, tornados and other such things.

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(a). Gases 1.CO 2.CO2 3.SO2 4.OXIDES OF NITROGEN NO, NO2, NO3 5.CFCs (b). Particulate Matter 1.Aerosol 2.Dust(mainly from crushing or grinding of coal which remain suspended in air). 3.Smoke (consists of CO2 and other combustible materials and lead particiles from tetra methyl lead(TML) and tetra ethyl lead(TEL) ). (c). Hydrocarbons 1.Poly aromatic hydrocarbon(PAHs)from vehicular emission

1.)Human wastes such as feces and urine

2.)Industrial wastes such as oil.

3.)Chemical runoff such as fertilizer.

4.)Detergents

Noise pollution refers to the overwhelming cacophony of sounds that people constantly experience when they live in big cities. The best way to reduce noise pollution is to wear noise canceling headphones, and to bike or walk whenever possible.

Fire releases carbon dioxide and other harmful gases. These gases increase the greenhouse effect and can lead to climate change.

Cutting down trees in itself doesn't cause pollution. Trees absorb C02 and release oxygen, so when it's cut down, it doesn't pollute- at least not right away. As the tree decays, it releases the C02 it has stored back into the atmosphere, inevitably causing pollution.

Plants can harm people by killing of crops, killing animals vital to the food chain, and by the plant being poisonous.

Because if it spreads to a large area the whole popullation gets infected. It also causes some serious genetic disorders. This disease is not curable. The most common eg is the atomic bomb blast in Heroshima And Nagasaki (japan 1945).

Acid rain effects the agriculture by corroding different materials. It can corrode limestone and some metals but if strong enough, it can kill the fish in a lake. It can also corrode the roots in a tree making it fall and killing all of the eco-systems inside.

The acid chemicals(sulfur from coal and other fossil fuels) harm and kill plant cells stopping photosynthesis. The acids destroy the plants lipids, proteins, and membranes causing the cell to malfunction and lose good clean water and other chemicals needed for photosynthesis.

Minerals naturally affect and are part of Earth's hydrology cycle as water circulates the surface and below. Minerals such as limestone can moderate acidity and pH levels, for example.

Public transportation is a large factor in reducing air pollution. The better the public transportation system is the larger amount of people will use it.

Let's use Los Angeles and Honolulu as examples.

Los Angeles has buses that go up and down the main roads. These main roads are about 4+ blocks apart. Say Street 1, then 4 blocks street 2, then another 4 blocks street 3. IF there were buses going back and forth between those streets at intervals the buses would be used more often. As it is there is *1* bus that goes between these streets. Another negative to Los Angeles' public transportation is you pay per ride. If you get off you have to pay again.

Now take Honolulu. There's several central bus depots depending on the bus you want you can get to any of them at one of these. There are buses that circle the whole island of Oahu, no matter where you need to go on the island you can get there by bus. Honolulu's buses give you a transfer that is usually good for a couple hours, and as long as the transfer is good you can bus hop to your heart's content.

If you could get everywhere you needed to go using public transportation would you use a car? For many people the answer is yes. When a city fails to meet that criteria with their public transportation the air pollution impact of public transportation is not as great as they hope. Though there is still some positive impact because there are people who will ride the bus and forgo the car.

When waste is burned, it releases fumes into the atmosphere which can either trigger diseases like asthma or it can add to the greenhouse effect. It will cause an increase in CO2 in the air. This causes the air to be unbalanced and produce pollution.

I would guess that the vast majority of pollution in ground water comes from people discarding chemicals and materials in low line areas and eventually rain water will force those chemicals and materials through the ground and into the groundwater. We've also heard of, we're well aware of people who have wells and use the wells as a disposal site for toxic chemicals.

Condensation can be polluted by waste, toxic chemicals, and alcohol.

lol I am biased towards the positive effects. Wave power is clean and has large potential for places with long coastlines, such as New Zealand. The systems are usually moored out to sea, so should not effect recreational use of the ocean greatly. Environmentally, there is little to worry about, since the hydraulic oils used can be biodegradable. On the negative side - maybe some dumb fish could get mashed up. Also, some people have been known to mistake wave energy systems for overturned boats. lol

Because when they burn the litter or make it into useful things they have to burn it when they burn it they have to use water to sort of burn it and that makes dirty water that goes to rivers streams lakes. Filters cant make the water cleaner because it is very dirty. Some water docent go to filters most of it goes to lakes rivers ponds.

That sounds as if you want to stop using energy. That's not possible - we need energy to survive. We (humans) can reduce our use of energy, and we can try to reduce the environmental impact of the energy we do use.

It is necessary to know about air pollution, because it badly affected our health and environment in which we live.Air pollution creates so many disease like cancer, birth defects, lung infection etc.

You would have to remove all life from the planet to stop water pollution.

2010, May 4: BP announces beginning of work to start drilling relief wells.

May 5: BP plugs one of the 3 oil rigs. This does not significantly reduce the flow of the oil, but reduces the complexity of the problem.

May 8: BP attempts to place a containment dome over the oil spill but fails.

May 16: Work begins on 2nd relief well.

May 17: Riser insertion tube tool (RITT) is put into place. This collects about 2000 barrels of oil a day, a fraction of the oil being spilled.

As of May 29th, BP announced that 3 consecutive attempts at a 'top kill' had failed. The 'top kill' process involves pumping heavy fluids into the blowout preventer to restrict oil flow, and then permanently sealing it with cement.

June 3: Deployment of the Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) Cap containment system. This plan involves cutting a part off the blow out preventer to leave a cleanly cut pipe which can then be capped. This effort is expected to take 4 days. They proceded with this method on June 3rd, and so far it is helping. However a jagged edge on the pipe might make the cap fall off. BP's next plan is to pump warm water down from the surface of the water, to prevent the cap from forming ice crystals like one of their previous operations. They will also plan to siphon the oil from pipes from the surface of the water.

June 5: LMRP is functional. About 10,000 barrels of oil are collected, though much continues to spill.

About 15,000 barrels of oil are collect per day. Approximately 30 million cubic feet of natural gas is being burned or 'flared' per day.

Other long term efforts include drilling side 'relief wells' into the original borehole. Once the relief wells are in place, they will pump drilling mud into the hole to try and stop the flow. Also, they might replace the blowout preventer with a new one. However, this will take upwards of three months.

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As of June 8, BP is:

1) Drilling two relief wells, which each take 3 months to drill. Approximately 90 million dollars will be sent to this effort.

2) A drillship is over the well, collecting more oil each day through a lower marine riser and cap. Rates of over 10,000 barrels per day have been reported. Drillships cost more than 15 million dollars per month, so the cost here will exceed 50 million easily.

3) Setting containment booms to slow the progress of spill. Protective barriers (berms) are being constructed and deployed.

4) Setting controlled burns of the oil where there is sufficient oil to burn (more proximal to the spill).

5) Using dispersants subsea and spraying over spill, to the extent allowed by EPA.

6) Paying contractors to pick up oil patties that are washing up on beaches and netting them where possible in marches.

7) Over 400 boats are now skimming the oil spill.

Cost to BP right now on cleanup is close or over one billion dollars.

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As of 2010 July 15, BP had replaced the LMRP cap with a 150,000 pound (68000 kg), 5.8 m cap which had completely contained the flow of oil from the main leak. It's stability is currently being tested, but it is hoped that this cap will be able to help siphon 80,000 barrels of oil per day to ships above.

Unfortunately, oil began seeping from the ocean floor elsewhere, leading to the conclusion that the main oil pipe has been damaged.

It was announced on 2010 August 4 that something called "Static Kill" is working and they are almost done with the problem.