Importance Of Land Pollution

One fourth of the earth consists of land or soil while the other third belongs to the majority water. Land is an important asset of environment which benefits not only for human beings but also for animals and plants. The lack of preservation of the environment will lead to various pollutions, including land pollution. Land pollution can be defined as the deposition of solid or liquid waste materials on land or underground in a manner that can contaminate the soil and groundwater, threaten public health, and cause unsightly conditions and nuisance.

Land pollution can lead to not only soil destruction but also affect others in terms of other pollutions, such as water and air pollution, such as acid rain because they are generated form land itself. The problem with land pollution is that people these days have a miss conceptual about the importance, or generally we can say environment itself to human life, animals and plants. They have forgotten about it or they simply just did not bother to care. Environment has been protected by the law since a long time ago. However, the implementation of rules and regulations pertaining about the matter are still a long way to perfection. It is difficult to cover the whole aspects in protecting the environment as it needs the respective cooperation of several individual and societal influences in order to maintain the preservations of environment.

Cause and Effect

Several factors that lead to land pollution, and the majority of it will be from the dumping of toxic waste, whether it is from the industrial, agriculture or other businesses which affects the land in many ways. Sewage waste from an industrial area will contains garbage which includes food waste, papers, glasses, plastics and also ...

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