Pollution map of TT would be very scary

But it would also show the areas that are badly hurting and in urgent need, plus give a sense of priority and point up a direction of the general care of environment .

Well crafted, it would have to locate pollution on it, geographically; and at the same time relate impact on various parts of the ecology and the eco-networking .

The details would include things like present intensity pollution, accumulation exponents, areas of overlapping pollution. I can note here some of commonly known things: * Oil drilling platforms (well hole spill-outs, drilling platform overflows, platform run-off and litter, offshore latrine, kitchen, maintenance and other discharge) .

* Industrial and medical wastes/disposals and spillages and incinerator discharges .

* Pesticides and herbicides (agriculture and garden run-off and wastes) .

* Commercial and household waste, eg paint wash-off, paint tins and other chemicals .

* Municipal projects, eg mosquito spraying (also affects insects’ ecosystem and birds and bees), general extermination, eg poisoning of rats .

* Automobile discharges and waste including tyres and wearing down of tyres on the roadways .

* Landfill (run-off and leachate) .

* Compound fires .

* General litter .

* Flood capture of pollution .

* Denudation/degradation (deforestation, mining, urban expansion, squatting) .

* Ships and boats discharges and litter .

* Cumulative pollution and plastics inorganic particles amassments .

Degrading plastic is everywhere and an immense particle/ molecular bulk is building up in the sea and sea-bottom. There are particular geographic points where this would be happing with more or less greater force than other places; where tide and eco-season vary. The same problem happens on land mostly at the landfills but within the leachate .

A map is a great heuristic .

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