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Happily, new laws and regulations have greatly reduced the amount of commercial and industrial pollution, but the problem still exists and there is still more work that needs to be done to reduce it further.

Land pollution facts that may more directly apply to you as an individual would be those that center on pollution from littering and just not caring for the earth the way you should.

Here are a few land pollution facts that pertain to littering.

Some studies show that more than 8 million gallons of litter is thrown from car windows every day.

Of all of the items placed in landfills each year, nearly 80% of them could have been recycled.

More than 30 billion non-biodegradable foam cups are used each year.

More than 20 billion tons of topsoil is lost each year due to land pollutions.

In addition to using your voice to spread the word about how important it is to stop commercial land pollution, there are also action steps you can take today that will cut down on your personal contribution to land pollution.

Here are a few land pollution facts how to reduce your own waste.

Buy Used

Many of the items that you use every day can be found used. This includes clothes, furniture, household items and many more.

You should also donate all of your old items to a local thrift store rather than throwing them away. This will not only cut down on what ends up in a landfill, but will give someone else a chance to find what they need used rather than having to buy new.

Of course, you won’t be able to find everything you need used, but you should always start your search looking for used items and only buy new when you must. This will not only help the environment, but it will save you money as well.

Eat Organic

When you eat organic foods, you are supporting farmers that do not use pesticides which are harmful to the environment.

Organic foods will cost a bit more, but they are better both for the environment and for your health.

Watch the Packaging

When you do need to buy something new, try to find products that do not use unnecessary packaging. Such packaging accounts for a lot of what is thrown away by consumers each year.

Write to companies that use too much packaging and let them know that you would love to buy their products, but that you will not do so until they eliminate what will potentially become land pollution.

We must learn to care for the earth in a responsible way so that it can continue to sustain life and provide abundant beauty both in this generation and in the generations to come.

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1. Where do most land pollution problems come from? 2. What helps to reduce the amount of commercial and industrial pollution? 3. How much waste on the landfills can be recycled? 4. What are the steps which anyone can do to prevent or reduce land pollution?

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Garbage is another important source of pollution. Every year households discard 41 million cubic metres of domestic waste – 1. 18 cubic per urban resident. Nearly all this waste – 95. 7% – is dumped at one of the 656 open-air sites; only a small part is processed at one of the four garbage disposal plants operating in Ukraine. Four out of five of the open-air dumps have no facilities to protect the underground water or the air and are huge toxic areas. As a result it is necessary to prohibit the use of large land areas for 50 years since the agri-cultural lands around dumps suffer low productivity due to pollution of the soil and the destruction of natural micro-organisms.

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A Dying Technology

Incinerators and landfills are both attempts to answer the question, “what do we do with waste? ” Over the last century, governments have invested billions of dollars in increasingly sophisticated technologies in the vain hope of making waste disappear. Yet neither incinerators nor landfills truly dispose of waste; each creates significant, hazardous byproducts and generates additional waste streams that require further management. This is because waste, like all matter, can never truly be destroyed. The current paradigm of waste management attempts to impose a linear production model on a cyclical ecosystem.

In the linear model of the human economy, materials are first extracted from nature, then processed into goods, then