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Media Kit Promote your brand with us with our media kit. Demo kit Experience the best of ESL technology with our latest demo kit. Scroll down. But how exactly can factories impact the environment? Here are some ways in which factories contribute to the man-made damage being done to our planet: Air Pollution Industrial factories are major contributors to air pollution.
Global Warming In factories, toxic materials and gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, are burned and pumped out into the atmosphere. Factory pollution do not only affect our planet but also our health. More on this later. Pancreas damage - air pollution has been linked to the onset of Type 2 Diabetes. The problem isn't just limited to tropical regions though; increasing pressure on crop lands around Europe, for example, is leading to the disappearance of a wide variety of plants and animals As covered in our climate change section, factory farming produces substantial greenhouse gas emissions - These emissions are intensifying climate change and making certain habitats increasingly hostile to live in.
According to the Convention on Biological Diversity 5 , climate change may affect plant growth and production by promoting the spread of pests and diseases, increasing exposure to heat stress and changing rainfall patterns, and encouraging soil erosion due to stronger winds.
One of the largest, found in the Gulf of Mexico, was estimated in to be the size of Massachusetts - square kilometres.
Nature Factory farming endangers the survival of other animals and plants, with impacts including pollution, deforestation and climate change. FAO 3. Factory farming endangers the natural world. By taking action against factory farming, we are also helping to preserve valuable ecosystems and the animals and plants that inhabit them. With hundreds or often thousands of farm animals crammed together, factory farms can create a range of pollution problems.
This can affect both natural environments and the animals and plants that inhabit them In , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO described livestock farming as '…one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems' 3.
More traditional farming methods can be relatively efficient, converting grass and other waste products into useful food. But the "fast-growth, high-yield" factory-farming model is far less efficient, using substantial amounts of grain and protein-rich soya. These crops often receive large quantities of pesticides and nitrogen-and-phosphorus-rich fertiliser to boost plant growth This has obvious uses, helping us to achieve higher plant yields, but a large amount of the fertiliser can be wasted and lost to the environment Farm animals produce large amounts of nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich waste on a daily basis.
This can be a good thing - animal waste can be a useful form of manure, replenishing the soil with certain nutrients But in factory farms, the concentration of animals indoors generally means that the waste is concentrated in relatively small areas. This waste should be properly managed and disposed of, but this isn't always the case, and it can find its way into the natural environment Nitrogen and phosphorus can create significant problems: for example, they can leak into water courses.
This can kill plants and animals, and even leave vast 'dead zones', where few species are able to survive. Some of the nitrogen will also become gaseous, turning into ammonia, for instance 21 , which can acidify waters and deplete the ozone layer.
And we can be directly affected too, as the quality of water supplies can be threatened It's not just dangerous levels of nitrogen and phosphorus that arise from factory farms - they can produce a cocktail of contaminants including pathogens such as E.
The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth's increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilisers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.
United Nations UN Factory farming pollutes environments. By taking action against factory farming, we are not just creating a food and farming revolution; we are also tackling some of the world's most pressing environmental problems. Animal farming converts plant products into meat, milk and eggs. But the 'fast-growth, high-yield' factory-farming model is far less efficient, using huge amounts of resources, such as water, grain and oil, but providing relatively little energy in return.
Although factory-farmed animals are given a lot of feed, much is wasted - animals cannot convert everything they eat into meat because the energy is used for other activities, such as moving around and keeping warm. In , it was calculated that for every kilo of meat produced, many more kilos of animal feed are required The most simple way that these factories cause land pollution is simply by being build. Large acres of perfectly good land is destroyed in order to build either a mall, factory, or some other upscale building.
These factories that contain hazardous materials inside sometimes have leaks in which the fuel and energy stored in the factories seep through into the ground under the building, bringing about land contamination. Referring back to my very first Civic Issues Blog, one of the oppositions to the pipelines that Trump wants to revive for oil transportation was the fact that those pipes brought about mass amounts of land pollution to the places they ran underneath. Not only are those pipes harming the environment for which they are around, but also the communities that have been established above ground.
If one of the pipelines was to burst, the ground would be completely infected with harmful oil, bringing about soil contamination. Soil contamination is caused by direct exposure to the pollutant, leakage of toxic gases into buildings, and groundwater pollution. The exposure to these toxic liquids could potentially make the soil or ground unsuitable to be used due to the industrial waste that would thus begin lingering on the surface of the land.
Most people would not think of radiation as harming the environment. We tend to think that radiation is only present when receiving an x-ray or even, positively, from the sun. However, the improper disposal of toxic wastes into the ground causes radiation to play a huge part in the demolition of the environment.
Some forms of radiation are found in the natural environment and others are due to modern technology. The damage it causes depends on the level of radiation and the resiliency of the organism. Radiation causes molecules to lose electrons thus destroying it. Killing certain enzymes in the body can simply make you sick.
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