The air we take in is being polluted by us driven cars, trucks, burning things like coal trees, and other fossil fuels. There is a million people that live around areas where urban smog is. Urban means characteristics ascribed to cities like: concentration of population, a special type of dense built up environment, density in general, specific lifestyles dedicated to certain parts of cities' populations. They're toxic pollutants pose serious health concerns. Vehicle exhaust contributes roughly 60 percent of all carbon monoxide emissions nationwide, and up to 95 percent in cities. The average adult breathes over 3,000 gallons of air every day. Kids breathe even more air per pound of body weight and are more susceptible to air pollution. Air pollution harms peoples heathe in so many ways and not just humans it harms everything on this earth.
Things we cant really see, pollutants in the air create smog and acid rain, cause cancer or other serious health effects. Certain air pollutions like, criteria air pollutants, this is very comon too the U.S.
These pollutants can injure health, harm the environment and cause property damage. The current criteria pollutants are: Carbon Monoxide, Lead, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter with aerodynamic size less than or equal to 10 micrometers, and Sulfur Dioxide. The things we can do to stop this from happening is making sure your computer and monitor power management settings are optimized, so they go into sleep mode when you're away from your desk.
Making sure someone in your office turns off the printer and copier at the end of the day.
Setting your printers and copiers to automatically print on both sides -- it takes more energy to make a sheet of paper than to copy an image onto it.
