ABSTRACT
Rapid developments of new technologies, progressive urbanization, and consumer lifestyles cause adverse and sometimes even irreversible changes in the environment. Air, water, and soil are exposed to large-scale pollution, originating mostly from anthropogenic sources. The pollution present in the abiotic part of the environment is subject to the following processes:
Transport, which causes it to occur in places distant from emission sources.• Physical and chemical changes (photochemical and biochemical) responsible for the pro-• duction of new compounds (secondary pollution), and a decrease in the concentration of primary pollution.
