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PRESERVING OUR ENVIRONMENT 6
Running Head: OUR ENVIRONMENT 1
Preserving our Environment
Andrea Phillips
Casselle Baird-Archer
Miskha Garraway
College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract
Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment. Land pollution, therefore is one aspect of environmental issues; it is the degradation or destruction of the earth?s surface and soil, directly or indirectly as a result of human activities. The degradation of land that could be used constructively in other words is land pollution. Many persons take land pollution for granted, simply because they are unaware of the damages incurred on our mother earth by the misuse and abuse of our natural resources. Land Pollution has led to a series of issues that we have come to realize in recent times, after left unattended for centuries. Deforestation and soil erosion, Agricultural, Industrialization, Construction, nuclear waste, excessive amounts of pesticide residue seeping into the air and soil: are all activities. Soon we would have no haven on earth, every resource would have been depleted, and our earth will be filled with terminally ill people and animals with no hope of a cure, no water and no food. This paper seeks to highlight some of the dangers of land pollution, what we can do to minimize it and actions that can be taken to cure some of the ills created. This essay will, however focus on solid waste and

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