This is mainly a technical problem. Although environmental techniques are developing rapidly, technical ingenuity is also limited. A certain extent of environmental pollution will always be inevitable, which means it will remain. When trying to control environmental problems, policymakers have to establish, more or less, what the limits are and to what extent pollution is acceptable. In other words, they have to establish standards.
Standards help push back and control pollution.
Which standards should be applied is dependent on the specific situation. When standards and values are established, there are always differing interests. The interest of a healthy environment and good living conditions for the people do not always coincide with the interest of social and economic development of society as a whole. In short, establishing standards is a subject that concerns the whole society in all its sectors, and therefore should be the subject of public discussion. Citizens and citizen groups have the right to participate in this process in several ways.