Air Pollution

Control Devices

Cyclone
Cyclone collector,
for removing
relatively coarse
particulates from
the air. Small
cyclone devices
are often
installed to
control pollution
from mobile
sources.

Electrostatic
Precipitator

Electrostatic precipitator, a common particle-collection device at

fossil-fuel power-generating stations.

Baghouse Filter

Baghouse employing an array of fabric bags for filtering the airstream.

Wet Scrubber

Wet
scrubber
using a
limestone
slurry to
remove
sulfur
dioxide from
flue gas..

Water Pollution

Water Pollution
Huang He (Yellow
River) near
Lanzhou, Gansu
province, China.
A section of the
Huang He (Yellow
River) stained red
by discharge
flowing from a
sewage pipe in
Lanzhou, Gansu
province, China.

Toxic Euglena
bloom

Toxic bloom caused by Euglena, a photosynthetic protist.

Oil Spill

Worker cleaning a rock on the beach of Green Island, Alaska, after the Exxon
Valdez oil spill, 1989.

Coral Reef Damage by Water

Pollution

Achilles tang surgeon fish (Acanthurus achilles) at a coral reef damaged by

pollution at Hanauma Bay, Hawaii.

Noise Pollution

Noise Pollution by Construction

Activity

Breaking up pavement with a pneumatic jackhammer.

Solid Waste
Disposal

Solid Waste
Disposal

Refuse Disposal System: plastic bins filled with recyclable materials

waiting to be picked up.

Solid Waste
Disposal

Sanitary Landfill : Bulldozers working on a sanitary landfill.

Solid Waste
Disposal

Sanitary Landfill : Two methods of constructing a sanitary landfill