What everyday activities contribute to air pollution?

Answer 1

Pretty much anything we do creates pollution right down to the three basic functions needed for our survival, which is eating,drinking, and yes even sleeping.. So to save the world I suggest just shooting yourself if your that worried about it :)

Answer 2

specific, for each km public transit strikes it contributes to air pollutants, and it contributes greater beneficial than a vehicle might. We get an offset in decreased use of automobiles, if public transit is actual wearing those people who could have been in automobiles. This concerns regularly at circumstances of day and journeys with low density of riders. whilst we see a 60 passenger bus rolling by a suburban path with 4 passengers we could be responsive to it could have been much less costly in pollutants to apply a vehicle. There should be a choose for public transportation to get any relief in pollutants. it does not make experience to grant public transportation to my rural residing house different than for the duration of morning and evening rush hour.

Answer 3

There are a few things that contribute ,but most don't.
!. CO2 is not a pollutant,study photosynthesis.
2. Methane is not a pollutant ,Try to measure it ,it is all bad calculations. Methane is very light so it goes very high in the atmosphere. All efforts to make a good measurement has failed. If they tell u differently try to envision haw they did the impossibility.

Answer 4

Anthropogenic sources (human activity) related to burning different kinds of fuel

Motor vehicles generating air pollution emissions.
Marine vessels, such as container ships or cruise ships, and related port air emissions
Burning fossil fuels
Burning wood, fireplaces, stoves, furnaces and incinerators


Other anthropogenic sources

Oil refining, power plant operation and industrial activity in general.
Chemicals, dust and crop waste burning in farming,
Fumes from paint, varnish, aerosol sprays and other solvents.
Waste deposition in landfills, which generate methane.
Military uses, such as nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ warfare and rocketry.

Natural Sources

Dust from natural sources, usually large areas of land with little or no vegetation.
Methane, emitted by the digestion of food by animals, for example cattle.
Pine trees, which emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Radon gas from radioactive decay within the Earth's crust.
Smoke and carbon monoxide from wildfires.
Volcanic activity, which produce sulfur, chlorine, and ash particulates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution

Answer 5

burning of carbon fossil fuels that is petrol, diesel "gas" by any means of transport - buses, trucks, cars. aircrafts, ships all let out pollutants which have not been burnt fully - these cause air pollution. Factory chimneys belch out smoke polluting the air. any person who smokes causes air pollution
whenever we cook - the unburnt cooking oils or cooking medium causes air pollution

Answer 6

The most significant one is driving a car. Using electricity provided by a coal burning power plant. Burning trash.

Answer 7

Reading the paper when you can get it online. (Grow more trees).
Commuting to work. Everyone should take the bus, transit systems should be available even to those in the suburbs. Using gas to heat your home. The Government should make solar power available to all like they do gas and electricity....

Answer 8

your cars exhaust, heating from your home, smoke stacks from big mills, that kind of stuff.

Answer 9

driving your car and heating your home are probably the highest!

Answer 10

Farting.