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Pollution and Its Control: A Historical Perspective

Authors : Tabassum-Abbasi, Tasneem Abbasi, S. A. Abbasi

Published in: Recent Advances in Recycling Engineering

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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This chapter aims to trace the history of environmental pollution which, in all probability, began some 300,000 years ago when humankind discovered fire. After establishing seminal definitions of pollution, pollutant, and pollution control, the chapter dwells upon the factors which caused increasing pollution across the world and which eventually triggered a global awakening toward perils of pollution till the awakening began to occur in the early 1970s. The chapter concludes with highlighting the reasons due to which pollution continues to rise throughout the globe despite enormous research and development in the field of pollution control that has been done in recent decades.

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Title: Pollution and Its Control: A Historical Perspective
Authors: Tabassum-Abbasi
Tasneem Abbasi
S. A. Abbasi
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Recent Advances in Recycling Engineering
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-3930-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-3931-0

Copyright Year: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3931-0_2

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