Quote: "Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change... a source created by human activities, such as manufacturing, extractive industries, poor waste management, transportation, or agriculture."
Pollution refers to any substance or energy that enters the environment and harms living organisms, the natural resources we use, or the ecosystem services we depend on. There are many types of pollution, including air pollution, water pollution, and soil pollution.
Quote: "Pollution is often classed as point source... or nonpoint source pollution."
Quote: "Many sources of pollution were unregulated parts of industrialization during the 19th and 20th centuries."
Quote: "Major forms of pollution include air pollution, light pollution, litter, noise pollution, plastic pollution, soil contamination, radioactive contamination, thermal pollution, visual pollution, and water pollution."
Quote: "Pollution has widespread consequences on human and environmental health, having systematic impact on social and economic systems."
Quote: "In 2019, pollution killed nine million people worldwide."
Quote: "Air pollution accounted for 3⁄4 of these earlier deaths."
Quote: "Pollutants frequently have outsized impacts on vulnerable populations, such as children and the elderly, and marginalized communities."
Quote: "Polluting industries and toxic waste sites tend to be collocated with populations with less economic and political power."
Quote: "A 2022 literature review found that levels of anthropogenic chemical pollution have exceeded planetary boundaries and now threaten entire ecosystems around the world."
Quote: "This outsized impact is a core reason for the formation of the environmental justice movement."
Quote: "Because of the impacts of these chemicals, local, country and international policy have increasingly sought to regulate pollutants."
Quote: "International efforts are coordinated by the UN Environmental Program and other treaty bodies."
Quote: "Pollution mitigation is an important part of all of the Sustainable Development Goals."
Quote: "Sites where historically polluting industries released persistent pollutants may have legacy pollution long after the source of the pollution is stopped."
Quote: No specific quote in the paragraph provides an answer to this question.
Quote: "Coming from a widespread distributed sources, such as microplastics or agricultural runoff."
Quote: "Pollution has widespread consequences on human and environmental health, having systematic impact on social and economic systems."
Quote: "This outsized impact is a core reason for the formation of the environmental justice movement and continues to be a core element of environmental conflicts, particularly in the Global South."
Quote: "Regional and national policy is typically supervised by environmental agencies or ministries."