How public services deal with environmental issues

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How public services deal with environmental issues

There are many different environmental issues that our public services have to deal with and in doing so often have to adapt there ways of operation so that they can be as effective as possible some of these issues that affect our public services are outlined below.

Physical problems

  • Land pollution
  • Sea pollution
  • Air pollution

Air pollution

This is normally associated with global warming and the green house gasses. Air pollution can also be linked to the meteor logical problems that we are experiencing in sense of floods and other extreme weather which means that public service organisations have to deal with the after math of such an event taking place e.g.

  • Boscastle floods
  • Tornado in Birmingham in 2005
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The public services can only deal with such events as they happen and planning is more a less the key today as all public services have plans in which to deal with such situations

Sea pollution

In the last 10 years the amount of litter around the UK coastline has doubled. 80% of that comes from the land, rubbish that hasn't been properly dealt with. Not only this but Fishermen are often blamed for throwing broken nets and rope over the side of boats which marine life can get tangled and trapped in. Substances like ...

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