noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
air pollution
▪ Most air pollution is caused by cars.
environmental pollution
▪ Power stations cause a lot of environmental pollution.
light pollution
noise pollution (=noise from cars, planes etc which has a bad effect on people’s lives)
▪ The new airport will increase noise pollution in the surrounding area.
noise pollution
noise/pollution levels
▪ Noise levels are unacceptably high.
pollution of the environment
▪ The waste material must be stored safely to avoid pollution of the environment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
atmospheric
▪ Heavy industry was developed along the north coast, without any consideration of chemical, atmospheric and environmental pollution.
▪ Other wells continued to burn, causing atmospheric pollution on an epic scale.
▪ Cities which were once beautiful have been rendered ugly. Atmospheric pollution continues to rise.
▪ Nylon was chosen for its strength and its resistance to extremes of temperature and atmospheric pollution.
▪ The polytechnic has employed research student Jo Denn to see whether a link can be established between childhood asthma and atmospheric pollution.
▪ Taken together, they represent the most forceful link yet made by respected institutions between man-made atmospheric pollution and global warming.
▪ It is part of a research programme aimed at understanding the basic processes causing damage to trees and crops due to atmospheric pollution.
chemical
▪ However, there is abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas.
▪ For humans, the chemical pollution threatens our fertility, intelligence and our very survival as a species, the environmentalists say.
▪ At small levels of chemical output, pollution is negligible.
▪ Because of chemical pollution of rivers, the cost of producing safe, palatable drinking water has risen dramatically.
environmental
▪ The most important areas were agriculture, energy, environmental pollution, competition regulations, and foreign trade.
▪ The most obvious examples of spillover costs involve environmental pollution.
▪ Low level environmental pollution was detected - ie sulphates and nitrates.
▪ The project has enabled farmers to reduce environmental pollution whilst raising crop yields.
▪ Heavy industry was developed along the north coast, without any consideration of chemical, atmospheric and environmental pollution.
▪ Nor do they contribute to environmental pollution by burning fossil fuels.
▪ They also include the control of environmental pollution, and we could benefit greatly through co-operating further on defence and foreign policy.
▪ Yet as with many agreements on environmental pollution, voluntary abstention is unsuccessful.
industrial
▪ The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages.
▪ In Tokyo and other industrial centers pollution levels are dangerously high.
▪ A spokesman for Greenpeace said that industrial pollution appeared to be the most likely cause.
▪ In 100 large industrial cities, pollution levels averaged over 10 times the acceptable limit.
▪ The town where this happened, Minamata, became the name of a disease and a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution.
▪ The general public are also in danger from industrial pollution.
▪ It's not just industrial pollution and radiation from Chernobyl, 50 miles upstream.
integrated
▪ The central part of the bill is the creation of integrated pollution control.
▪ Central to the green bill is the introduction of integrated pollution control.
▪ The act also introduces the idea of integrated pollution control.
marine
▪ In a report on marine pollution, the organization states that 12,000 pipes have been licensed to discharge industrial effluent.
▪ We are all familiar with news items concerning marine pollution due to oil spills.
▪ It produced a 13-point action plan to reduce the risk of marine pollution.
▪ The main topics were environmental management and marine pollution.
▪ Researchers who want to register innovations in fighting marine pollution are directed by the environment ministry to Cedre.
▪ Acid rain and marine pollution hurt neighbouring countries; ozone depletion and global warming threaten the entire planet.
■ NOUN
air
▪ Traffic fumes are the biggest cause of air pollution in nearly half the cities.
▪ Consider one example from the annals of air pollution: the effort to reduce the effects of car exhaust on the atmosphere.
▪ It was the start of Britain's acid rain debate and the birth of its' modern air pollution policy.
▪ Copies were distributed far beyond West Virginia to scientists and officials concerned with the effect of air pollution on Eastern forests.
▪ But, within 15 years, air pollution was as bad as ever.
▪ Of all the problems, air pollution received the most attention.
▪ There are nineteen more employed on running campaigns ranging from tropical rainforests to air pollution and London's roads.
▪ Cars and industry in El Paso contribute to the air pollution, of course.
control
▪ In the northern agency, about half a dozen districts comprise a pollution control area.
▪ Yet diesel gets off easily when it comes to pollution controls.
▪ For them pollution control work is a scientific endeavour.
▪ The lack of money spent on pollution control.
▪ Examples include street lighting and pollution control.
▪ He will also regularly look over pollution control installations in his district to ensure their satisfactory operation and maintenance.
▪ Taxes can be imposed either to raise funds for pollution control or to discourage over-use of nitrates, or both.
incident
▪ Between 1979 and 1990, the number of reported pollution incidents from farm waste more than doubled.
▪ This accounts for 90 percent of reported pollution incidents.
▪ The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985.
▪ Although major disasters such as large oil pollution incidents and deaths from pesticides are few, both cause continuing problems.
▪ Of the 2802 pollution incidents from the industrial sources only four percent were classified as major.
▪ The first two chapters discuss a number of pollution incidents and the biological cycles of carbon nitrogen and sulphur.
▪ There are battles being fought all over Ireland about pollution incidents and industrial hazards.
level
▪ Given that pollution levels relate to fuel consumption, private cars and taxis are also the greatest polluters.
▪ One study conducted in 1980 examined seven economic-demographic models constructed to project the future of food and resource supplies and pollution levels.
▪ Eliminating the occurrence of first-stage smog alerts requires long-term reductions in the baseline pollution levels.
▪ In Tokyo and other industrial centers pollution levels are dangerously high.
▪ Water pollution levels are also alarmingly high.
▪ When pollution levels rise beyond the 250 mark, the ban is extended for two days.
▪ Worries about pollution levels from intensive indoor units and growing concern about animal welfare are also motivating factors.
▪ Teachers can now base assessed investigations on data collected by real scientists, such as pollution levels, available on the internet.
nitrate
▪ The Ecological Impact of Nitrates Two rivers illustrate the impact of nitrate pollution.
noise
▪ Our survey revealed a noise pollution impact on the community that is not imagined.
▪ Or the ear which shouts, about noise pollution.
▪ All great fun for the flyer but not for those inclined to complain about noise pollution.
oil
▪ Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution, little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there.
▪ In addition each aircraft will be capable of carrying an oil pollution detection system.
▪ It found evidence of extensive oil pollution of lakes, rivers and groundwater and of the destruction of virgin swamp and forest.
▪ Although major disasters such as large oil pollution incidents and deaths from pesticides are few, both cause continuing problems.
prevention
▪ In this day and age almost all of the most positive and far-reaching developments in pollution prevention originate in industry.
problem
▪ Once you have cured the water pollution problem, you will have to take steps to avoid it happening again.
▪ Waste tends to be the pollution problem to which other problems are eventually reduced.
▪ It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems.
▪ It was a good example of how employees can contribute to solving pollution problems.
▪ An initial appraisal of pollution problems should point out not only all the work required to prevent a pollution incident.
river
▪ Read in studio A new method of catching fish is being used to test for river pollution.
▪ In February 1875 Edward Frankland, an eminent chemist, gave a Discourse on river pollution.
▪ Thousands of fish died from river pollution.
standard
▪ But most policy takes a different approach, the imposition of pollution standards that regulate the maximum amount of allowed pollution.
▪ Unlike cars, trucks, buses and most other vehicles, locomotives have never before faced pollution standards.
▪ The water authorities thus not only set and enforce pollution standards, they are major polluters themselves.
▪ Crawford is one of the founders of the International Dark-Sky Association, which lobbies governments to adopt pollution standards.
water
▪ In water pollution, however, the evidence is mobile and there may be no complainants with a stake in reporting it.
▪ Policies such as effluent charges for sources of air and water pollution are One possibility.
▪ Local residents could band together and pay a local firm to reduce air or water pollution.
▪ Once you have cured the water pollution problem, you will have to take steps to avoid it happening again.
▪ It proposes tough penalties for industries which cause water pollution to help reverse the decline.
▪ Legislation has typically attacked air and water pollution first, and solid waste last.
▪ Sewage was the major cause of water pollution.
▪ Right: Overfeeding quickly leads to water pollution.
■ VERB
cause
▪ It claims bikes cause too much pollution and can upset pedestrians.
▪ Attempts to change the land-based activities that cause coastal pollution would have far-reaching economic, political and social consequences.
▪ Other wells continued to burn, causing atmospheric pollution on an epic scale.
▪ He's certain it's caused by sewage pollution.
▪ There have been accidents during transportation, which have caused serious pollution.
▪ Effluent from industrial activities in countries bordering the sea is also causing various pollution hazards.
▪ Some scientists believe that it is caused by water pollution.
▪ They also say heavy vehicles are arriving from 5.30am, causing fumes, pollution and noise.
contribute
▪ Nor do they contribute to environmental pollution by burning fossil fuels.
▪ Cars and industry in El Paso contribute to the air pollution, of course.
▪ It was a good example of how employees can contribute to solving pollution problems.
▪ They also use more fuel, therefore contributing more pollution, and use more of an increasingly scarce resource than diesels.
▪ Consequently, industrial stacks above about 150 metres or even 100 metres may contribute little pollution to smog locally.
▪ The report found that 95 percent of respondents were aware that cars contributed to environmental pollution.
▪ Litter disfigures the countryside and contributes to pollution, but this is just the tip of the environmental iceberg.
cut
▪ If, however, other countries take similar measures to cut pollution, the situation obviously improves.
▪ A federal law spells out the penalties for missing the deadline to cut air pollution.
▪ Liberal Democrats aim to cut pollution and clean up the local environment.
▪ He said the buses would cut air pollution and reduce sheep deaths from accidents with cars.
▪ This will help to cut pollution and save energy and give a valuable boost to the housing market.
▪ This would not only provide incentives to cut pollution but also act as a channel for transferring resources to developing countries.
fight
▪ Everybody talking bout de Green revolution Protecting de children an fighting pollution.
▪ The local authority have agreed to implement a series of new measures to fight the pollution.
▪ Researchers who want to register innovations in fighting marine pollution are directed by the environment ministry to Cedre.
include
▪ Other concerns include the threat of pollution, noise disturbance, danger from heavy lorries and the loss of environmental amenities.
▪ Those include reducing air pollution by two pounds every time some source adds one pound.
▪ These mechanisms include pollution taxes and tradeable pollution permits.
▪ Examples include street lighting and pollution control.
increase
▪ This will increase rather than decrease pollution.
▪ The group contends the helicopters will increase noise and pollution, while being a safety risk.
▪ Lakes and reservoirs may have to be shut during the summer as increasing pollution causes toxic algae blooms.
▪ Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.
▪ This number is increasing, due to fertiliser pollution. 4.
monitor
▪ First, it would be necessary to monitor the quantity of pollution of each firm in order to assess its tax liability.
▪ Though uniform standards will not be enforced, the agreement calls for joint monitoring of pollution.
▪ At Harwell laboratories, they've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell.
▪ Equipment to monitor pollution and climate change will be installed in the park.
▪ It's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution.
prevent
▪ However, conditions may be attached to any site licence which may have the effect of preventing any odour pollution from arising.
▪ This continues, but at least now efforts are also being made to prevent further pollution and even repair some of the damage.
▪ Care will be required to prevent pollution of the burn.
▪ By destroying these wastes Rechem is significantly helping to prevent further pollution of the local and world environment.
▪ An initial appraisal of pollution problems should point out not only all the work required to prevent a pollution incident.
reduce
▪ The remaining gases pass through a catalytic converter to further reduce pollution.
▪ The change reflects the continuing failure by state and local governments to reduce pollution enough to meet federal health standards.
▪ The project has enabled farmers to reduce environmental pollution whilst raising crop yields.
▪ Since 1975, the global conglomerate 3M has saved $ 500 million while reducing pollution 50 percent per unit of production.
▪ Local residents could band together and pay a local firm to reduce air or water pollution.
▪ There also is the obvious environmental benefits to biking, since it reduces air pollution and reduces traffic.
▪ This studied the economics of reducing groundwater pollution in ten catchments overlying chalk, sand or limestone aquifers.
▪ Their innovative system, which reduced pollution output to zero, also paid for itself in two years.
suffer
▪ Experts think a major reason why those with asthma and hay fever are suffering more is car pollution.
▪ Amsterdam has substantial parking problems and suffers chronic congestion and pollution.
▪ The region as a whole suffers from significant air pollution from ageing heavy industrial plants.
tackle
▪ It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems.
▪ The notice requires the region to tackle pollution in North Queensferry.
▪ Given the enormous and costly pollution control efforts to tackle ozone pollution to date, these variable ten-year trends are very disappointing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Pollution and overfishing have reduced the population of coastal fish.
▪ Pollution from cars is the main cause of global warming.
▪ Pollution levels are often dangerously high in large cities.
▪ Pollution levels in the area shot up as soon as the factory started operating.
▪ Industrial pollution has killed much of the river's wildlife.
▪ She says that transporting goods by rail instead of road would cut air pollution dramatically.
▪ The city is looking into ways to reduce air pollution.
▪ The convention, signed by the six states bordering the Black Sea, aims to reduce current pollution levels.
▪ The use of electric cars could be a key factor in fighting pollution.
▪ What pollution controls will the state authorities put in place?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A federal law spells out the penalties for missing the deadline to cut air pollution.
▪ And there too I will cleanse the men from their pollution.
▪ But Doran's invention is safe as well as economical and pollution free.
▪ Not only do they consume more natural resources, they also produce more pollution.
▪ The law speaks of causing or knowingly permitting pollution, and the concept of cause has been strictly construed.
▪ The most obvious examples of spillover costs involve environmental pollution.
▪ The report recommends a number of steps designed to limit pollution.
▪ Thousands of fish died from river pollution.