360 degrees - Needed: Green Thumb

What is Pollution?

Pollution can be described as contamination of air, water and soil by introduction of a contaminant into a natural environment

• 500mn: Estimated no. of cars in the world. by 2030 it will rise to one billion, thus doubling the pollution level
• 3mn: The Number of kids under the age of 5 yrs who die every year due to environmental factors like pollution.
• 85mn: Tonnes of waste prevented from being dumped in 2010 due to compositing and recycling efforts

Americans make up 5% of the world's population, and yet, produce 30% of the world's waste and use 25% of the world's resources.

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Did You Know? (Courtsey: www.conserve-energy-future.com)

• Breathing the air in Mumbai, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.
• 1,000 children die in India every year due to diseases caused by the polluted water.
• 100 Million people hit by pollution worldwide
• 1 Billion people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water
• 80% of urban waste in India is dumped in the Ganga
• 5,000 people die every day as a result of drinking unclean water
• There are over 73 various kinds of pesticides in groundwater, which is used as drinking water.
• China is the world’s largest producer of co2, followed by the US
• kids contribute to only 10% of world’s pollution but are prone to 40% of diseases
• 1 Million seabirds killed due to pollution every year. and 100 mn mammals too