{"id":17667,"date":"2024-03-28T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/?p=17667"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:18:14","slug":"current-state-of-soil-pollution-in-the-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/?p=17667","title":{"rendered":"Current state of soil pollution in the capital city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main causes of soil pollution are household sanitation, waste, processing plants, mining, and vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" src=\"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-1024x549.png 1024w, http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-300x161.png 300w, http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-768x412.png 768w, http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-696x373.png 696w, http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-1068x573.png 1068w, http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-783x420.png 783w, http:\/\/mecc.mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For example: 3.5 million tons of waste are disposed of annually in about 370 waste collection points nationwide. Ulaanbaatar city receives and disposes of 1.4 million tons of waste annually at 3 central points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 200,000 households in the city&#8217;s ger neighborhood have direct access to the soil from their pit latrines. Bacteria and mold have been found in 88% of the city&#8217;s population, while 93 percent of the soil samples in the ger neighborhood are contaminated with bacteria, mold, and fungi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soil pollution from pit latrines poses a risk to the city&#8217;s environment and human health by seeping into shallow water, being carried by flood waters, and being released into the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main causes of soil pollution are household sanitation, waste, processing plants, mining, and vehicle. For example: 3.5 million tons of waste are disposed of annually in about 370 waste collection points nationwide. Ulaanbaatar city receives and disposes of 1.4 million tons of waste annually at 3 central points. More than 200,000 households in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17670,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions\/17670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mecc.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}