Land
Pollution
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Overview
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Revered to as soil pollution, land
pollution involves the following
mechanism:
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Deposition of solid
waste
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Accumulation of
non-biodegradable materials
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Toxification of chemicals into
poisons
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Alteration of soil chemical
composition (imbalance of chemical equilibrium
to soil medium)
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By as much, land pollution of this has
amass globally, everyday threatening the very
foundation and mechanical support of every matter
on earth. Statistically, it has been shown
that:
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loss of 6 million hectares of
land per year
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loss of 24 billion tons of
topsoil per year
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loss of minimum 15 million
acres prime agricultural land to overuse and
mismanagement
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desertification of land
results in the lost of 16 million per square
miles of world's land surface
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The causes for such devastation are
generally due to 2 (two) forms of
malpractices:
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Sources
and Methods
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We can classify
major sources that lead to land pollution to the
following categories:
Source
: http://library.thinkquest.org
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