Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
What are the various methods you suggest to protect our environment from pollution?
Solution
Methods to control environmental pollution:
- Waste management Environmental pollution can be controlled by the proper disposal of wastes.
- Recycling A large number of disposed waste materials can be reuse by recycling the waste, thus it reduces the landfill.
- By substitution of less toxic solvents for highly toxic ones are used in industrial processes.
- By growing more trees.
- By using fuels with lower sulphur content.
- By control measures in vehicle emissions which are adequate.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
How can domestic waste be used as manure?
For your agricultural field or garden, you have developed a compost producing pit. Discuss the process in the light of bad odour, flies and recycling of wastes for a good produce.
Which of the following is natural and human disturbance in ecology?
What is green chemistry?
During an educational trip, a student of botany saw a beautiful lake in a village. She collected many plants from that area. She noticed that villagers were washing clothes around the lake and at some places waste material from houses was destroying its beauty. After few years, she visited the same lake again. She was surprised to find that the lake was covered with algae, stinking smell was coming out and its water had become unusable. Can you explain the reason for this condition of the lake?
Which of the following vehicular fuel is currently adopted as eco-friendly?
Which of these are biodegradable pollutants?
(i) Pesticides
(ii) Mercuric salts
(iii) Sewage
(iv) Radioactive wastes
