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Pollution = "the introduction of pollutants (whether chemical substances, or energy such as noise, heat, or light) into the environment to such a point that its effects become harmful to human health, other living organisms, or the environment.

"Pollution control is a term used in environmental management. It means the control of emissions and effluents into air, water or soil. Without pollution controls the undesirable waste products from human consumption, industrial production, agricultural activities, mining, transportation and other sources will accumulate or disperse and degrade the natural environment. In the hierarchy of controls, pollution prevention and waste minimisation are more desirable than pollution control.

"Motor vehicle emissions are one of the leading causes of air pollution. China, United States, Russia, Mexico, and Japan are the world leaders in air pollution emissions; however, Canada is the number two country, ranked per capita. Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry."
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In The Future is Green: Sustainable Transport and Local and Sustainable Materials, Colin Dunn, author of sundancechannel.com's Treehugger Blog, concludes that "we have a huge opportunity to make both our day-to-day and longer-term (like holiday airplane travel) transportation more sustainable. [We] already know the story with cars: internal combustion engines pollute, bottom line, so for all the talk about hybrids and plug-in hybrids [www.sundancechannel.com] and flex-fuel and biofuel [www.sundancechannel.com], we have to get beyond using fossil fuels in our engines, and, ultimately, get beyond internal combustion to use things like batteries [www.sundancechannel.com] and hydrogen fuel cells [www.sundancechannel.com], where emissions will not only be reduced, but can be absolutely zero. Of course, these options already exist (in prototype form, at least) with Tesla's sexy roadster [www.sundancechannel.com] and the Hypercar [www.sundancechannel.com].
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