Chemical pollution

The marine environment is highly aggressive. Materials in marine service are constantly exposed to water, corrosive salts, strong sunlight, extremes in temperature, mechanical abuse, and chemical pollution in ports. This climate is very severe on ships, buoys, and navigational aids, offshore stmctures such as drilling platforms, and faciUties near the shore such as piers, locks, and bridges. 

The impact of chemical pollution on the reproductive success and population sizes of wildlife species is often difficult to assess. In many cases, environmental factors such as habitat restriction, stress due to human intrusion and changes in natural food supplies owing to hunting, fishing and restocking policies may have a significant, even predominant, effect on population size. This makes it difficult to determine to what extent, if any, environmental endocrine disrupters may be contributing to observed effects on reproduction or population size in wildlife species. 

SI 1998/314 Eood Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Oil and Chemical Pollution of Eish) Order 1997 (Revocation) Order... 

Thermal or chemical pollution of water resources is avoided. 

The modeling of a groundwater chemical pollution problem may be one-, two-, or tlu-cc-dimcnsional. The proper approach is dependent on the problem context. For c.xamplc, tlie vertical migration of a chemical from a surface source to the water table is generally treated as a one-dimensional problem. Within an aquifer, this type of analysis may be valid if the chemical nipidly penetrates the aquifer so that concentrations are uniform vertically and laterally. This is likely to be the case when the vertical and latcrtil dimensions of the aquifer arc small relative to the longitudinal scale of the problem or when the source fully penetrates the aquifer and forms a strip source. 

A major difficulty is that so many applicahons employ polymers as though they were readily disposable, despite the fact that they are, in reality, among the more inert of chemical pollutants. In particular, plashc packaging tends to make a single use of a fabricated polymer which is then thrown away. Even when disposed of responsibly, packaging materials are the source of a serious pollution problem. Municipal authorities dispose of such materials by one of two routes, landfilling and incineration, of which the latter cannot be readily used for chlorinated polymers, such as PVC, because of the additional problems caused by organochlorine species in the atmosphere. 

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Zala, S.M. and Penn, D.J. (2004). Abnormal behaviours induced by chemical pollution a review of the evidence and new challenges. Animal Behaviour 68, 649-664. 

Brugnone F, Perbellini L, Giuliari M, et al. 1994. Blood and urine concentrations of chemical pollutants in the general population. Med Lav 85 370-389. 

Nicoara S, Culea M, Palibroda N, et al. 1994. Volatile organic chemical pollutants in laboratory indoor air. Indoor Environ 3 83-86. 

It is not currently feasible to achieve a zero discharge of chemical pollutants from metal finishing operations. However, substantial reductions in the type and volume of hazardous chemicals wasted from most metal finishing operations are possible.8 Because end-of-pipe waste detoxification is costly for small- and medium-sized metal finishers, and the cost and liability of residuals disposal have increased for all metal finishers, management and production personnel may be more willing to consider production process modifications to reduce the amount of chemicals lost to waste. 

Biological Effects of Chemical Pollution in Feral Fish and Shellfish Populations from Ebro River From Molecular to Individual Level Responses... 

Biological Effects of Chemical Pollution in Feral Fish... 

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