What are the effects of soil pollution in healthy soil?

Soil pollution causes a chain reaction. It alters soils’ biodiversity, reduces soil organic matter and soils’ capacity to act as a filter. It also contaminates the water stored in the soil and groundwater, and causes an imbalance of soil nutrients.

How can toxic chemicals in the soil harm you?

Chemicals such as lead can hurt the nervous system, including the brain. Contaminants may also be absorbed through the skin. Creosote is a common material used to preserve wood in the United States. This complex mixture of chemicals can leach out of treated wood and contaminate the soil.

What are the diseases caused by soil pollution?

Long Term Diseases Cancer, including leukemia – caused by the contact with soils contaminated with chemicals (e.g. gasoline, benzene) Nervous system damage – caused especially by the presence of lead (Pb) in soil, and affecting especially children. Neuromuscular blockage and depression of the central nervous system.

What are the five types of infectious materials?

There are five types of biohazardous medical waste:

  • Solid Biohazardous Waste. Solid biohazardous waste is any non-sharp material that contacts human or animal specimens.
  • Liquid Biohazardous Waste.
  • Sharp Biohazardous Waste.
  • Pathological Biohazardous Waste.
  • Microbiological Waste.

How does soil pollution affect plants?

Soil pollution increase the salinity of the soil making it unfit for vegetation, thus making it useless and barren. If some crops manage to grow under these conditions, they would be poisonous enough to cause serious health problems in people consuming them.

What do you mean by radioactive pollution?

The radioactive pollution is defined as the physical pollution of living organisms and their environment as a result of release of radioactive substances into the environment during nuclear explosions and testing of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon production and decommissioning, mining of radioactive ores, handling and …

What are the main causes of radioactive pollution?

We can classify major sources that lead to radioactive pollution to the following categories:

  • Nuclear power plants.
  • Nuclear weapon.
  • Transportation.
  • Disposal of nuclear waste.
  • Uranium mining.