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Some lead compounds are colorful and are used widely in paints, [121] [122] and lead paint is a major route of lead exposure in children. [123] A study conducted in 1998–2000 found that 38 million housing units in the US had lead-based paint, down from a 1990 estimate of 64 million. [124]
Common causes of lead poisoning epidemics include mining, lead recycling, and food/water contamination. [1] These events also cause disproportionate childhood fatalities as children are more susceptible to lead poisoning than adults.
2. Baby Food. One might think that a product advertised for infants and young children would be safe to eat. Alas, it's shocking how much food marketed to kids contains lead.
Motor vehicle emissions are a major source of airborne contaminants including arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, nickel, lead, antimony, vanadium, zinc, platinum, palladium and rhodium. [29] Water sources (groundwater, lakes, streams and rivers) can be polluted by toxic metals leaching from industrial and consumer waste; acid rain can exacerbate this ...
The Gills Creek watershed is not a source of drinking water, which eliminates one major concern with the pollution, Stangler said. But there are worries about how lead or PFAS could build up in ...
burning of traditional biomass such as wood, crop waste and dung. In developing and poor countries, [22] traditional biomass burning is the major source of air pollutants. [23] [24] It is also the main source of particulate pollution in many developed areas including the UK & New South Wales. [25] [26]
Community activists and environmental scholars, have effectively argued that major industrial polluters, like Exide, have been able to release massive amounts of pollution by exploiting government inaction regarding poor and minority populations that often live near these major sources of pollution. [118]
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause harm. [1] Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.