Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Toxic Waste by: Nixon Branda

Toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death to people living in a certain place. It usually the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use.
Toxic waste can be also released from air, land and especially in water.


As you will imagine if they will keep on continuing their bad works do you think we will have a good places to live and do you think all of us will live for a long time, of course not because that picture above are releasing toxic waste and if we inhale that toxic we will have a chance to be killed and have any injuries. That’s why before it might happen we must put an action to solve that , they must released it to its proper places.
Toxic waste can pollute the natural environment and contaminate groundwater. Love Canal is a famous incident in which homes and schools were built near an area where toxic waste had been dumped, causing epidemic health problems. A number of toxic substances that humans encounter regularly may pose serious health risks. Pesticide residues on vegetable crops, mercury in fish, and many industrially produced chemicals may cause cancer, birth defects, genetic mutations, or death. Many chemicals have been found to mimic estrogen, the hormone that controls the development of the female reproductive system in a large number of animal species. Preliminary results indicate that these chemicals, in trace amounts, may disrupt development and dick to a host of serious problems in both males and females. These range from infertility, increased mortality of offspring and disruptions of bodily functions (such as slowing heart rates, or breathing rates) to cold/flu like symptoms (such as vomiting, diarrhea and swelling) and behavioral changes (such as depression, tiredness and behavior confusion).

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