DANCE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Arsenic, Cigarette, Biodegradation
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Generally speaking, soil pollution is when toxic chemicals have reached a level that threatens human and animal health as well as the ecosystem. Soil pollutants include a large variety of organic and inorganic chemicals that are found in the ground that are both naturally occurring and man made . Primary cause of soil pollution is a result of human activity such as mining, landfills, accidental leaks e. g. oil and gas pipelines, manufacturing waste, dumping of electronic equipment (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Biggest single source of trash is paper products. Plastic coated milk carton = 5 years. Plastic six-pack holder ring = 450 years. Example #1 = paper products and the calif department of substances (cid:1) control. Landfill gas = methane gas, move around in the landfill from one part. What are the public health, safety, and environmental concerns (cid:1) (cid:1) air pollutants (haps) (cid:1) (cid:1) carbon dioxide (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
