The Five Worst Environmental Pollutants in Your Beauty Products. By now we've already covered a little of how products can affect our health, but it bears reminding that what's good for us is also generally good for the planet—and vice versa.
Because Whole Foods is a pioneer in natural personal-care, even issuing new organic labeling guidelines to their suppliers, we asked them to tell us the top five most environmentally noxious ingredients used in personal-care products, and why we should avoid them. Illustrations by Brianna Harden This is the seventh installment in a series inspired by No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics, a forthcoming book by GOOD's features editor Siobhan O'Connor and her co-author Alexandra Spunt. It will run every Tuesday and Thursday. Environmental Pollution. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued.
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Because of these contaminants, the ecosystem is damaged on various levels breaking the coordination and eventually disturbing the balance of the environment. The elements which pollute the environment are known as pollutants, and these can be in the form of solid particles, liquids, harmful gases or noise. They therefore cause 3 main types of pollution, viz; air, water and soil pollution and all these have harmful effects on animal, plant and human life. China, India, Russia, Peru, etc., are some of the top countries in the world that contribute to maximum pollution and should be very careful with their wastes. In the coming up paragraphs, we have a list of environmental pollutants which are the triggers to this global hazard faced by human race.
Water Pollutants. Six Common Air Pollutants. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six common air pollutants. These commonly found air pollutants (also known as "criteria pollutants") are found all over the United States. They are particle pollution (often referred to as particulate matter), ground-level ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and lead.
These pollutants can harm your health and the environment, and cause property damage. Of the six pollutants, particle pollution and ground-level ozone are the most widespread health threats. EPA calls these pollutants "criteria" air pollutants because it regulates them by developing human health-based and/or environmentally-based criteria (science-based guidelines) for setting permissible levels. Click on one of the pollutants below for information on sources of the pollutant, why the pollutant is of concern, health and environmental effects, efforts underway to help reduce the pollutant, and other helpful resources.