Pollution: air, light, noise, plastic Flashcards
(30 cards)
what is pea souper
thick fog that is yellow, brown and orange
Air pollution until the 1950s was accepted due to what?
industrial activity
_________ Power Station was emitting about 160 tonnes of sulphuric acid each day during the Great Smog.
Battersea
during the great smof, _______ people had premature deaths.
Public outcry and political reactions led to the _______ Act in 1956.
12000
clean air act
WHO shows that ___ in 10 people breathe polluted air
9
what is the impact of breathing polluted air in pregnant women?
give birth early
low birth weight
what is the impact of polluted air on developing children?
neuro development
cognitive abilities
asthma
childhood cancer
air pollution is responsible for up to ___% global warming
40
according to FAO, how is food staples affected by every degree celsius of global warming?
decrease by 10% per degree celsius of global warming
how does air pollution affect food access?
farmers have reduced workdays as breathability worsens and daily heat rises
limits income and increases price of food
which 2 particulater matter pollutants should be targetted to reduce air pollution?
PM2.5 and PM10
WHO updated their guidelines on air pollution on _____.
22 Sep 2021
white pollution stems from _____ and is ____ in recent years.
plastic; rising
Plastic production since 1964 has increased ____ folds, reaching _____ million metric tonnes in 2014
20; 311
Between ____ to ____, more than 6,700 million metric tonnes of plastic was produced.
1950-2015
what accounts for 26% of plastic used?
plastic packaging
what is Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean
spans from US West Coast to Japan
bounded by the North Pacific Subtropical gyre, which rotates around 20 million square kilometers.
80% of plastics in the Garbage Patch comes from _____ sources and 20% comes from _________ sources
land-based; boats and other marine
what made up nearly half the mass of the giant patch?
Synthetic fishing nets
humans consume more than ______ microplastics particles a year
100k
is there currently a standardisation in approaches or an internationally agreed protocol to measure plastic pollution?
no
UN environmental programme (UNEP) is developing a methodology to measure ______ plastics on beaches and shorelines using _______ data.
marine; citizen science
plastic pollution threat is legally recognised by many countries and corporations. true or false?
false
multinational organisations are pushing for ____ as priority and ducking responsibility to tackle _____.
they ignore _____ reduction strategies in favor of less sustainable strategies
recyclability; plastic pollution
waste
