The Impact of Air Pollution on the Environment | Waste Solution

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The impact of air pollution on the environment can make an environment becomes corrupted and polluted. Affected by air pollution, among others, the impact on crops, cause acid rain, greenhouse effect occurs, and cause damage to the ozone layer.

For more details I will explain the impacts of air pollution on the environment mentioned above one by one

The Impact of Air Pollution on The Environment

1. Impact on Plants

The gas nitrogen oxides which are already polluted the air in addition to harmful to the health of humans and animals, but also harmful to plant life. Crops contaminated by gas will get NO impact at the surface of the leaves will develop spots, if the gas Nitrogen oxides (NO) at higher concentrations it again may cause the onset of necrosis or tissue damage to the leaves. So, the plant cannot produce as expected i.e. it produces carbohydrate from the process of photosynthesis.

With a concentration of 10 ppm NO, leaf photosynthetic ability will decline to about 60% to 70%. The surface of the leaves is covered in dust or particulates can cause obstructed process of carbon dioxide uptake by leaves and cause obstructed the process of photosynthesis.

The occurrence of being pale between the bone and the edges of the leaves are caused by sulphur dioxide gas. Emissions of sulphur dioxide, fluorine and ozone may lead to a process of cultural assimilation in plants. Besides the resulting impact if plants consumed man may harm human health e.g. only if vegetables contaminated lead and then consumed the humans will be harmful for human health consumption.

2. The smoke and Fog

This term appeared around the early 20th century, when the smoke and thick fog appears in the city of London due to the industrial revolution in the city. Based on the type of pollutants cause, smoke and fog can be differentiated into the smoke and haze fog smoke and industrial and photochemical.

The main pollutants cause smoke and sulphur oxide industry is a mist and particulate material derived from fossil fuel burning by industry, the colour looks grey.  Smoke and fog is often seen coming out of the chimney of the factory.

The main pollutants cause photochemical smog and haze are the nitrogen oxides that come from motor vehicles and hydrocarbons from different sources.  Both of these pollutants will undergo photochemical ozone forming.  The ozone can react with a variety of other air pollutants to form hundreds of types of secondary pollutants that endanger health.  Nitrogen oxides cause smog and photochemical haze looked Brown. 

3. Acid Rain

Is the rain carries acidic chemicals? The gas nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide were the main pollutant causes the occurrence of acid rain. The impact caused from acid rain is if plants exposed to acid rain would be causes damaging in plants exposed to acid rain, the rain water to high acid can interfere with growth and development of plants, can affect the quality of groundwater and surface water, causing the materials made of metal rusting and objects made of stone will be damaged.

4. Greenhouse Effect

Is an event capture or stuck solar thermal in layer the bottom of the Earth's atmosphere by greenhouse gases that form a layer in the atmosphere? The greenhouse gases trapping heat on Earth by way of absorbing the heat of the Sun and heat will be reflected back to Earth. This causes the temperature of the Earth increases so that global warming is happening. The process above is supposed to be mostly hot sun reflected into space.

Global warming caused by greenhouse gases, namely a variety of air pollutants such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCS), and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS). Due to human activities the amount of gases in the atmosphere is increasing every year.

Global warming is the impact of the greenhouse effect, global warming may also cause an impact that is as follows

• Ice in the polar regions is melting so that the surface sea water becomes high and the resulting floods, floods could cause disease outbreaks.
• Led to the regional and global climate change
• Cause changes on flora and fauna life cycles

5. The damage to the Ozone Layer

The function of the ozone layer protects the Earth against the Earth is from the Sun's radiation ultraviolet (UV) rays of the Sun. The ozone layer is height of the 20-35 km from the Earth's surface in the stratosphere. The presence of CFCS as air pollutants that are located in the stratosphere and are unstable. Ultraviolet light causes an existing CFC in layer atmosphere into free radicals are highly reactive chlorine. So, accelerating (catalyst) in the process of decomposition of ozone. As a result, the decomposition of ozone molecules faster than on the process of the formation of ozone molecules. So, a disruption of the balance of the ozone layer. The Impact of Air Pollution on The Environment

The impact resulting from that event that is causing the ozone layer be thin and can even make holes in the ozone layer. Since the ozone layer is already an ultraviolet light emitted from the Sun cannot filter anymore. The result of the ultraviolet light that is directly broadcast to earth can cause skin cancer and damage to the plant. CFC gases that become pollutants above can be generated from the cooling appliance like a fridge and air conditioning.

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