10. Water pollutants

Conventional water pollutants (nutrients, BOD, SS, pH, oil and grease, pathogens), Priority (toxic) pollutants and nonconventional and nontoxic pollutants (road salt)

What are the 3 major types of water pollutants?

390 million metric tonnes

What was the worldwide production of plastic in 2021?

PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, OTHER (in Ontario we are only capable of recycling these 2 the other go into garbage)

What are the 7 different kinds of plastic currently used worldwide?

the lifetime of plastic is big, it takes 1000 years for plastics to completely break down

What is single biggest problem with this enormous plastic use?

Recycled, Incinerated (waste to energy), put in a landfill, mismanaged (litter)

What is done with all the plastic waste?

It goes into atmospheric pollution - combustion, most likely incomplete

What is done with Incinerated (waste to energy)?

Goes into aquatic pollution

What is done with landfill?

Goes into terrestrial and aquatic pollution - landfill and mismanaged have real implication on water pollution

what is done with mismanaged?