Editing Pollution (section)

== Dirtiest industries ==
The [[Blacksmith Institute|Pure Earth]], an international non-for-profit organization dedicated to eliminating life-threatening pollution in the developing world, issues an annual list of some of the world's most polluting industries. Below is the list for 2016:<ref>{{cite web|title= 2016 World's Worst Pollution Problems|url=http://www.worstpolluted.org/docs/WorldsWorst2016.pdf |publisher=Pure Earth, Green Cross Switzerland |website=WorstPolluted.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223181158/http://www.worstpolluted.org/docs/WorldsWorst2016.pdf |archive-date= 23 February 2024 }}</ref>{{Update inline|date=April 2025}}
* [[Lead–acid battery]] recycling
* [[Mining]] and [[extractive metallurgy]]
* [[Lead smelting]]
* [[Tanning (leather)|Tanning]]
* [[Artisanal mining]]
* [[Landfill]]s
* [[Industrial park]]s
* [[Chemical industry]]
* [[Manufacturing]]
* [[Dyeing]]

A 2018 report by the [[Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy]] and [[GRAIN]] says that the meat and dairy industries are poised to surpass the oil industry as the world's worst polluters.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gabbatiss|first=Josh|date=18 July 2018|title=Meat and dairy companies to surpass oil industry as world's biggest polluters, report finds|work=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/meat-dairy-industry-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fossil-fuels-oil-pollution-iatp-grain-a8451871.html|access-date=29 June 2019}}</ref>

=== Textile industry ===
{{Excerpt|Chemical waste|Textile industry}}

=== Fossil fuel related industries ===
Outdoor air pollution attributable to fossil fuel use alone causes ~3.61 million deaths annually, making it one [[List of causes of death by rate|of the top <!--underlying causes-->contributors to human death]], beyond being a major driver of climate change whereby greenhouse gases are considered per se as a form of pollution {{see above|[[#Greenhouse gas emissions|above]]}}.<ref name="PNAS2019">{{Cite journal|title=Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate|journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]]|volume=116 |issue=15 |pages=7192–7197 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1819989116 |last1=Lelieveld |first1=J. |last2=Klingmüller  |first2=K. |last3=Pozzer |first3=A. |last4=Burnett |first4=R. T. |last5=Haines |first5=A. |last6=Ramanathan |first6=V. |s2cid=85515425|pmc=6462052 |pmid= 30910976 |date= 25 March 2019 |bibcode=2019PNAS..116.7192L|doi-access=free}}</ref>