EFFECTS OF POLLUTIONS IN NIGERIA COMMERCIAL CITIES

Pollutions comes as the by-product of man’s activities. They are residences of things he makes uses and throws away, his cans and bottles, metals and plastics caps, waste rock and mill tailings, pesticides and herbicides, automobiles exhausts and industrial discharges.

These are concomitants of a technological society with a high standard of living. They increase both because of population increase and because of an increasing expectation fro higher living standards, more is made, used and thrown away. But, as the committee on pollution of National Academy of science noted in 1966.

“As he earth becomes more crowded, there is no longer a way one person’s trash basket is another’s living space.”

Pollution therefore can be primarily a consequence of irrigational behavioral.
These researches work little.

“The effects of pollution to the society, it’s causes and effects, seeks to exonerate on what causes the pollution and how to handle the causes with a view to eliminate it.
It is also aimed at enlightening the general populace on a need to maintain a healthy environment as a prerequisite for a fulfilled and achievement propelled life.

THE OF TYPES POLLUTION PREDOMINANT IN NIGERIA

AIR POLLUTION
According to united states public health services air pollution may be defined as the presence in the out door atmosphere of one or more containments or combination, therefore of in such quantities as may be injuries to human being, plant and animal life.
The executives release of air pollutants in the atmosphere by anthropogenic activities disturbs the dynamic equilibrium in the atmosphere and thereby affects man and his environment mostly in Lagos and River State metropolis the atmosphere in dynamic system that steadily absorbs various pollutants from natural as well as man made sources, thus acting as a nature sink. Gases such as carbon, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen and sodium oxide are continually into the atmosphere through natural activities such as gas flaring forest fires, volcanic eruptions, decay of waste materials.

WATER POLLUTION
Water Pollution can simply be defined as the indiscriminate dumping of solid waste into water bodies. Water is considered to be polluted when it is altered in composition or condition so that it becomes less suitable for the purpose for which it would be suitable in its natural state. The quantity f world wide water sup[pliers is declining as a result o pollution in the city.

SOLID WASTE POLLUTION
This pollution arises as a result of the solid waste. It can be defined as excess supply waste. It can be defined as excess sup-ply of waste materials. Once waste is collected from a house hold it has been disposed of as far as the house hold is concerned. It normally results from an imbalance and the demand for it.

NOISE POLLUTION
Noise refers to sounds that are unwanted by the listener. Because it is unpleasant or bothersome to people, it can said to be a sort of pollution. Noise does not be a sort of pollution. Noise does not necessarily have any particular physical traits to distinguish it from wasted sound merely to draw attention to its unwantedness.

INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION
Some industries also pollute water with inorganic matter and with heat. Mercury discharged by certain manufacturing processes has caused serious mercury pollution.

RECOMMENDATIONS /SOLUTIONS
Now there is concern and zeal amongst members of the public to declare war against pollution, the researchers consider it necessary to make some suggestions on how the goals of this action can be achieved.

1. The government should adopt a strong law against indiscriminate dumping of refuse.

2. The public needs education and enlighten on the need for a health environment.

3. Refuse burning should be restricted to incinerator.

4. Factories should apply the use of tall chimneys so as to discharge the gases high enough in the sky.

5. There should be constant inspection of streets by State environmental protection Agency especially on clean-up days. They should ensure that refuse dumps are constantly remounted

6. Sewage should be properly treated before disposal.

7. Subsidization the government should make a variety o law interest loan for the purchase of pollution equipment.

8. Recycling of industrial waste and scraps of material should be implemented on a full scale

When all this measures are put in place we can then say we are moving towards a healthy environment as the earth is our only habit and we owe a duty to protect it