Densely populated areas such as New York City often accrue high levels of pollution. Polluted waterways and air negatively impact human health, as well as the surrounding environment. While not as commonly recognized as sources of pollution, the abundance of light and noise created by the urban landscape can also have a detrimental affect to human health, as well as affecting other organisms. Additionally, such a large group of people living together results in a large amount of waste that needs proper treatment, whether by recycling or dumping in designated areas. Hazardous wastes can be especially hard to dispose of, since they are especially damaging. This poster explores some of the impacts these pollutants have on the environment, as well as ways in which New York City and other urban areas have created programs and legislation to mitigate damage to humans and the environment, and to clean up areas where negligence in previous years led to an accumulation of pollution.
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/cleaningupnyc.pdf
Jennifer Itty, David Futran, Isaac Pulatov, Sima Shulman, Nathan Wong
Esther Muehlbauer, Ashley Williard
Queens College
pollution, garbage, hazardous waste
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