Everyone suffers the effects of pollution. The most vulnerable people - like children, older people and those with heart and respiratory conditions - are most affected. People living in deprived areas are also more affected by poor air quality, partly because these areas are often near busy roads.
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be chemical substances, energies or naturally occurring contaminants. In 2015, pollution is estimated to have brought an early death to 9 million people worldwide.
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Immigrant children picking through rubbish on waste ground looking for scrap to sell. Tower Hamlets Winter 1992-3.
ICI Wilton, Middlesborough. Flue gas emissions here have been responsible for a number of uncontrolled chemical leaks forcing the evacuation of the neighbouring residential areas. © David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Women's enviromental network block road at Highbury Corner, London in protest at pollution caused by traffic.Summer 1994.
Phurnacite coking plant, Mountain Ash, South Wales. The dirtiest and most polluting factory in the UK surrounded by terraces of worker's cottages. Situated in a valley, the particulate and gas emissions build up to dangerous levels and cause high rates of illness among those living nearby. © David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.
Stolen car burned out & dumped by joy riders on Cooling Marshes near Cliffe on the Kent coast. Thames Estuary, UK. © David Hoffman phone 020 8981 5041, fax 020 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com. NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Mora
Easington, Durham 1989. British coal dump colliery waste directly into the sea smothering life on the sea bed & blackening beaches. Unemployed ex miners scratch a living collecting coal washed up on beach. © David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.
© David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and t
Smog from traffic pollution hangs heavily over Mexico City. Situated in a valley this area suffers from severe air pollution. © David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.
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