**Please help prevent Land Pollution!**

     Human beings take part in making land pollution.  We as people use things that are useful and then we discard them, by putting them in the trash.  After they are in the trash they are  buried under the ground.   A few years later the earth will absorb the harmful chemicals from our trash. This is one form of land pollution.    

            Land pollution has gotten to a high point and can get even higher.  In 1994 the Russian republic set the record of the worse land pollution ever.  On August 17, 1994 an oil spill had occurred.  It had destroyed 5,213 acres. The cause of the accident was due the to poor pipes used to transport the oil.

            Land pollution incidents have a major impact on the environment in England.  The number of incidents is on the increase.  In 2000 there were 8 incidents compared with 22 in 2001 and 31 in 2002 in England.  That is a major amount of damage to the land in this country. 

            If you run a small business or any kind of business, you may need a land pollution control permit. If your business produces waste and you do not dispose or store it, you will not need a land pollution control permit.  There are different types of waste, if you handle certain kinds of waste your business will need a permit, the need for a permit depends upon the type of waste and what you do with the waste and the location of the activity. 

             If you accept waste from someone else for treatment, transfer, storage or disposal you will need a permit.  There are three different types of land permits.  There is a solid waste permit, special waste permit and a hazardous waste permit.