ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Nowadays, one of the greatest concerns of society is the care and preservation of the environment, in order to remedy the damage caused by man and prevent its further deterioration, since this directly and indirectly affects the health and welfare of humans and other organisms. Environmental pollution is a cyclical process that involves all environments: air, water and soil, and from any perspective, living beings, both emitters and receivers of pollutants.

These pollutants have been the consequence of the development of industrial, agricultural, livestock and clinical processes, among others, without adequate planning and without taking into account the environmental impacts. An example of this is the use of pesticides on crops: the use of these compounds has been considered indispensable to improve, protect and optimize these processes, but it has not been taken into account that the environmental consequences and the remediation of the contamination caused may be more costly.

The considerable increase in the use of these environmental pollutants is aggravated if we consider that many of them have become recalcitrant pollutants, either because of the long exposure time, the quantity or the type of molecule deposited in the environment; these pollutants become more persistent and, as already mentioned, this is a cyclical process; therefore, when the environment is affected, we are also affected, since we are the final recipients of these pollutants.