Pollution Management

These are the ways in which pollution management, which is the process of taking care of pollutants and the degree in which they affect the environment, work:


Directly or indirectly

• Directly
• Measuring the concentration of pollutants
• Acidity on rain
• Amount of gas(ses)
• pH of soil
• Presence/concentration of nitrates/phosphates/sulfates/etc.
• Amount od organic matter in soil/water
• Amount of bacteria
• Concentration of (heavy) metals
• BOD: used to determine the pollution in water (>BOD, more pollution)
• Direct sampling
• In situ
• Reliable but instruments may be hard and costly to transport
• Ex situ
• Wider variety of methods and instruments
• May be repeated
• Indirect

• Indicator Species
• Biodiversity
• BOD
• Spectroscopy
• Chromatography

Measuring pollution


Detection and monitoring of pollution is a process that can be done directly or indirectly

Directly: Measuring the concentration of pollutants

• Acidity of rain
• Amount of gases in atmosphere or emissions
• Soil pH
• Concentration of nitrates, phosphates, sulfates in soil and water
• Amount of organic matter in soil and water
• Amount of bacteria
• Concentration of (heavy) metals
• BOD (biochemical oxygen demand: the amount of oxygen used by microorganisms to break down organic matter in water): used to determine the pollution of water. The greater the BOD, the more pollution.

Indirectly

• Absence or presence of indicator species