5.

3 Approaches to Pollution
Management

Early Action = Less impact on the environment

Most cost effective

How to Clean Up Oil

Several methods using various technologies have been developed through
the years to cleanup oil spills. These methods include: letting the spill break
down by natural means, using booms to channel and collect the oil, using
dispersants to break up the oil, using biological agents to degrade the oil,
burn off the oil, and recently usingBP
a Spoof
bell to collect the oil.

1 - altering of human activity, which will prevent

the
production of the pollutant in the first place

2 - regulating and reducing quantities of the

pollutant,
which will reduce the negative impacts

3 - cleaning up the pollutant and restoring the

ecosystems,
which will mitigate the negative impacts and
restore.

man factors and pollution management

nomic systems

Cs have decreased pollution in recent decades due to:

ore strict environmental regulation
dustry has researched new ways to pollute less greening the industry
industrialization = relocation of the most polluting activities to NICs
ewly industrialized countries)

man factors and pollution management

l factors

f Countries with Elected governments as apposed to authoritaria

ess their environmental concerns more readily.
ng by major companies can influence decisions
have become and increasing political force.
s environmental legislation is weak and enforcement of regulatio

man factors and pollution management

al factors

ltures have always held the environment in high regard however

ethic has taken over allowing considerable environmental degr