How to prevent land pollution
Like many other challenges, the best way to solve problems is to understand it. This means learning about it (like what you are doing now) is the greatest step forward.
Here are a few other tips on how you can help reduce land pollution:
facts on water pollutionPeople should be educated and made aware of the harmful effects of littering. Discuss with friends and family and talk about it.
left aligned imagefacts on water pollutionReuse any items that you can. Items like clothing, bottles, wrapping paper and shopping bags can be used over and over again, rather than buying new things.
The greatest prevention to land pollution is in the three ‘R's’ …
Reduce Waste, Reuse things and
Recycle things. This is true even for governments. They can also use the three ‘R’ rule to minimize the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. After the three 'R's, remember to turn the rest of the garbage into compost.
facts on water pollutionPersonal litter should be disposed properly. We can separate household waste at home for recycling. More than half of our household waste could be recycled or re-used but once it is mixed up, it becomes more difficult to separate different components for recycling. This is also true for the waste we make at school or hospitals.contaminants to soils in other locations.
The effects of soils contamination
Soil contamination can result in soil and land pollution, and affect the health of plants that depend on them. It can also harm living organisms in the soils and humans that come into contact with them by touching, breathing or eating crops from contaminated soils. Contaminants in soils can also get infiltrated into ground water and pollute them.