The industrial platform of Copsa Mica charges the atmosphere with noticeable quantities of smoke, vapors, gazes (sulphuric dioxide ) and the most dangerous aerosols being: lead, cadmium, zinc and copper.
     The polluted zone covers the hole town Copsa Mica, but it extend itself trough the vale of the river Tarnava Mare beetwen several towns, affecting several other towns.
     The heavy metals can get inside the enviroment – water, air, soil,vegetations. Because of that there is an enlargement of the soil pollution and through the planted plants on this soils and also of the inspired dust the people's health is very affected.
There were ellaborated test on the grounds of the near factory, from schools and grounds for cultivating and the conclusions were that the concentrations of metals were over the normal limit.

     The pollution acts like an external factor, very aggressive, affecting biochemical and chemical processes from plants and soil, making great ecological imbalances, and even genetic, over the great functionality of forests, affecting the hydrological and climatic functions. The negative effects of the forest pollution affects the natural balance of nature and also the society.
     The effects of the pollution on the social plan have been analized also in Copsa Mica. It is about the permanent discomfort provoked over the population through smells and the irritation