Dr Kowshik -Understanding pollution

hello Learners welcome to the session on understanding pollution in this video we will discuss the definition of pollution and pollutants explore the concept of generation of wastes and types of wastes assimilative capacity of the environment and also discuss the point and non-point sources of pollution so what is pollution pollution is the introduction of harmful

substances or pollutants into the natural environment causing adverse effects on living organisms and ecosystem these may be solid liquid or gaseous substances or forms of energy such as heat sound or radioactivity so if we introduce this to the the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed diluted decomposed or recycled or stored in some

harmless form environmental degradation occurs as you must be aware air pollution water pollution and land pollution are some of the major kinds of pollution but modern society is also concerned about noise pollution light pollution and plastic pollution so pollutants are the components of pollution that can be either foreign substances forms of energy or even

naturally occurring contaminants pollution of all kinds can have negative effects on the environment and Wildlife and often deeply impact human health and well-being before discussing the generation of Wast and types of wastes it is essential to understand what wastes are wastes are unwanted or unusable material they are defective worthless and of no

use so what are some of the types of waste municipal waste hazardous waste waste water radioactive waste and others are to name a few municipal waste are nothing but the waste collected and treated uh by or for municipalities so this type of waste includes household wastes commercial wastes construction and demolition wastes as well all the