Air and Sound Pollution-Causes
Air
- Smoke from industrial plants, locomotives, furnaces etc.
- Dust, salt particle from oceans, pollens, spores, rust etc
- Gaseous impurities from chemical manufacturing industries like sulphur dioxide, benzyl, carbon monoxide acid vapour, fumes etc. often combine with air and then intermingle with the smoke already present in the air.
- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in air conditioning
- Automobile exhaust gases in particular, exhaust from trucks and buses
Sound
- Increase in number of vehicles on the road,
- excessive use of horns
- increase in number of aircraft in the air.
- Use of loudspeakers of extremely high wattage at night.
- Excessive use of **** crackers.
- Increase in ultrasonic and electromagnetic sound waves from mobile towers.
Measures to Control Pollution
- Generating consciousness among public people to control all pollution.
- Planting more and more trees.
- Banning the use of loud horns or mindless blowing of horns by motor vehicles
- Making Environmental education compulsory in all educational institutions.
- Avoiding the excessive use of pesticides and insecticides
- Strict precautions to avoid pollution of various types in factories
- Banning running of old and pollution emitting vehicle giving The pollution control Administrative Authorities independent powers to implement their decisions.
