The word 'pollution' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the contamination of air, water, or soil by substances that are harmful to living organisms. For example, "The pollution levels in the city have been steadily increasing over the past few years."
"This week he hopes to abolish the legislated cap on Australia's carbon pollution and allow the big polluters open slather in the future.
Many more whales and dolphins die each year through pollution, bycatch, ship-strike: who is going to legislate for them?
As well as whalers' harpoons, whales must navigate the dangers of ship strikes, entanglements in shipping nets and other ocean apparatus, disorientating man-made ocean noises, habitat destruction, resource exploitation, climate change and pollution.
The result is ever more competition for space, jobs, water and energy: "There's traffic and water pollution, poor sanitation and even the buildings don't have efficient designs," says Singh. "Another problem is waste management".
It has also taken on major corporations and brands on issues such as deforestation, pollution, ocean welfare and more.
Residents of southern California contend with the highest cancer risk from air pollution in the state, according to regulators.
The SCAQMD covers stationary sources of air pollution, such as power stations, oil refineries and manufacturers, which with households produce 25% of the area's ozone-forming pollution.
Aside from the increased pollution and heavy machinery, there is more segregation along economic and class lines.
The most obvious and biggest examples concern pollution.
Car ownership is also a symbol of success in Beijing, China, and has resulted in a rapid increase in congestion, air pollution and traffic-related deaths.
We do not, with respect to clean air and clean water, set the limits of tolerable pollution by consent.
