What is Pollution?
Pollution is the environmental contamination of air, water, and soil with harmful or poisonous substances and waste products.
Why Should you care?
Pollution hurts plants and animals. Pollution causes the environment to become dirty, unsafe, or unsuitable to use. Pollution makes you and your friends feel sick. It causes illnesses that can kill us. Pollution is bad for our environment and life on Earth.
Be a Pollution Detective
Here are examples of what to look for:
Is the color of your water at home changing from clear to brown?
Does your water smell bad or like nasty old food?
Does it have a strange taste?
Look at the sky. Notice if the air around you has a brownish haze.
Does the air smell like gasoline, smoke, or nail polish remover?
Does the water in the stream near your home have a glossy sheen on top?
These are all signs of pollution. Make a report and demand action to clean up pollution.
What is important?
You need to be concerned when you see pollution. You must report it and find the right person to help you and your community fix it. This is our world and pollution is our enemy
We all want our planet to be a better place to live.
Be Optimistic. Be Proud
If it seems like no one is listening, don’t give up. Just keep trying and continue caring about your world. Always report pollution.
Help Your Community
This is a public service. Take care! You are a leader!
