Environmental Science Unit 1 Portfolio
Oil Pollution

Oil pollution has become a big problem today affecting the natural habitat of humans and many animals. The thing of human industrial operations, it threatens to mess with the oceanic environment that makes up more than 75 percent of our planet’s surface. We need to focus on the makes of pollution, cite major spills as examples of their significance, describe SAS radar imaging as a major oil pollution monitoring system, and talk about clean-up procedures and costs associated with them.
But we hope to see oil pollution as coming from tankers and major accidents, many industries pollute the world ocean even when their facilities are functioning in their normal way. We will look in our paper the extent to which each type of pollution adds to the presence of oil in the ocean. We will then see that despite a wide variety of methods that have been invented to target pollution, the effect on the environment is still unsatisfactory, and natural habitats continue to die and get hurt.

Most of the pollution in the oceans occurs for reasons totally unconnected with unplanned disasters. Because in the event of regular functioning of all oil-related industrial activities, pollution is not going to just go away.
The graph from the NASA website clearly shows that large spills account for only a small percentage of annual pollution, injecting a “meagre” 37 million gallons of oil in the world ocean in a year.
The biggest culprit is the pollution by runoff from used engine oil that comes after oil changes, “runoff from land and municipal and industrial wastes” in addition to road runoff, together making up 363 million gallons per year (NASA).
In comparison to this source of oil pollution, almost every other looks paltry. Plus, big uncontrolled spill that result after large tanker or other kind of accidents altogether are only the fifth most serious source of ocean oil pollution, accounting for 5% of the oil that yearly ends in the ocean.
Routines help every day, including bilge cleaning and