Citizen Pollution
The city pollution is a phenomenon that is closely linked to the consumer society that has had tremendous growth in the last century. Basically without going into academic definitions is the use of chemical products manufactured in large quantities componenentes harming human habitation or after use, waste or scrap polluting forms become the earth's surface and that evaporation occurs changes in the natural composition of the atmosphere causing environmental damage and consequently the health of the inhabitants.
One of the icons of this pollution, but not only is the growth and universalization of the use of plastic in a wide variety of everyday products. The replacement of the glass (recycled item) in the manufacture of packaging and container, the evolution of technology and the proliferation of devices composed of this element, and the better-known pollution of plastic bags used heavily in supermarkets.
Another factor is undoubtedly linked the increase in electricity consumption in daily life, being one of the most provocative of pollution-generating power plants based on coal and petroleum products, which cause strong dioxide emissions carbon dioxide (CO2). That is, until there is a significant change in the matrix generating energy, electricity use is directly proportional to the pollution.
You can not miss the endorsement of the vehicle fleet powered with combustion of petroleum fuels as strong triggers of city pollution. For decades there urban centers such as Santiago de Chile, and Mexico, vehicular circulation should be planned to operate four days a week because the so-called "smog", which is nothing but carbon monoxide (CO2).
The excessive use of paper pulp using the raw material is an indirect contaminant citizen, as the generation of the pulp, causing the deforestation of areas considered lungs of the world as the prime example is the Brazilian Amazon . We do not link these things easily, but the consequences are decisive for the post of Climate Change damaging the atmospheric layer for input filter ultraviolet rays from the sun
But the list of pollutants is long and all citizens are guilty of any, since the "comfort" that we produce makes us forget the evil that will produce the environment. As a memory exercise, mentioned batteries, car batteries, cellular batteries, PET containers, tires, electronics components.
