CHINA's air pollution still SERIOUS

China's Air Pollution Still Serious
In 1999, carbon dioxide emission reached 18.57 million tons, air pollution emission reached 11.59 million tons and industrial dust emission reached 11.75 million tons, according to statistics released by the State Environmental Protection Administration of China (SEPA). This shows that although the total volume of China's atmospheric pollution dropped or stayed the same, the absolute volume of atmospheric pollution is still huge.

The data showed that out of 47 major cities along China's eastern coast, not one city's atmospheric pollution met the Level 1 standard and more than 60% of the cities failed to meet the state Level 2 standards. Of the 338 cities monitored, only 112 cities reached the Level 2 standard and 137 exceeded the Level 3 standard, meaning they are severely polluted.

The spread of acid rain is also growing. Acid rain hit 30% of China's total area, making China the third largest heavy acid rain region in the world, behind Europe and North America. Acid rain is a serious problem in central, southern, southwestern and eastern China. Tests of the Ph level of rainwater in 106 cities revealed that the range of ph level in water was between 4.3 and 7.47 and that 43 cities or 40.6% had a Ph level lower than 5.6. A number of cities in the south had an acid rain frequency exceeding 80%.

A spokesman at SEPA said that the major reasons for China's atmospheric pollution problem were: the use of outdated energy resources which rely primarily on coal and a sharp increase in car pollution and industrial pollution.

Malaysia Environmental Pollution

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Environmental Pollution

• Agricultural Age Energy Sources:Limited, insignificant levels of pollution.
• Industrial Age Energy Sources:Industrial age air, water, and noise pollution from burning of fossil fuels.
• Information Age Energy Sources:Global pollution problems, global warming (greenhouse effect), and hole in ozone level--all legacies of the industrial age; prospects for cleaner environment from gree technologies and an eventual return to renewable energy sources.
  

Information/Data on Malaysian Environmental Pollution

Malaysian current issues about the environmental pullution is an air pollution , industrial and vechicular emissions, Water pollution from raw sewage and deforestation. Malaysia has a natural hazards of flooding as well. However, the Governoment has made as International agreement to minimize the pollution, signed but not ratified.

Conclusions on Malaysia

(Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Environmental Pollution)Malaysia has a very high environmental pollution mostly becouse of their new industrial revolution. They do reialize that this could become a major problem and are trying to reduce it in the future. Malaysia is in the Industrial Age in the are of the Environmental pollution.

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Noise Pollution

What do we do about noise pollution?

In many cases, the person/s causing the noise may not be aware that they are causing a problem, and all that is required is a polite request for some action to be taken to resolve the issue in a friendly way. Don’t take any risks – such an approach can sometimes produce a hostile response. Please contact Environmental Services if you don’t feel able to deal with the problem yourself, or if you have tried and it hasn’t worked.Officers will investigate your complaint and decide if any legal action is needed to solve the problem. They will always try to find a solution, without legal action if possible, but can act quickly in severe cases. If they are unable to help you, they will advise you who can.

How We Do It?

Officers begin by establishing the extent of the problem:If your complaint is not urgent, officers will write to or visit the place where the noise is coming from.If the problem is severe and urgent and can be witnessed, then they will take prompt legal action, including seizing noisy equipment if necessary.If the problem has occurred before, officers will need to decide if legal action is needed, and you may be asked to fill in a record of dates, times and notes to show how bad the noise is. They may also need to visit when the noise is going on.

What happens then?

When they have completed their investigation, they will let you know and will do one of the following:
a) Give advice if no legal action is possible/necessary.
b) Require the noise to be controlled, within a time limit, by serving an abatement notice.
c) Take action directly to solve the problem.If the abatement notice does not solve the problem, then officers will have to collect more evidence before taking legal action, and this may take some time. An abatement notice lasts forever, or until the person named on it moves house or dies. If this does not stop the noise, officers will take action to stop it (for example, by seizing and destroying their amplification equipment). In addition to this, they may prosecute the person/s responsible. The maximum penalty for breaching an abatement notice is £5000 (£20,000 for a trade or business)

What about "Out of Hours"?

The Council does not provide an out-of-hours service for all noise complaints. However, from May to September inclusive, officers will be available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings and Bank Holidays to deal with complaints of noise in the Waveney District, of a particularly severe nature (see below for full details).The person who answers the phone will not be an Environmental Health Officer and will simply take the details and pass them on to the Duty Officer on call. The Duty Officer may telephone you back to discuss the matter. It will then be decided what course of action to take which could be:-Offer adviceFollow up on the next working dayVisit to assess the situation

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