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Revered
to as soil pollution, land pollution
involves the following mechanism:
-
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)
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:
-
loss
of 6 million hectares of land per
year
-
loss
of 24 billion tons of topsoil per
year
-
loss
of minimum 15 million acres prime
agricultural land to overuse and
mismanagement
-
desertification
of land results in the lost of 16
million per square miles of world's
land surface
The
causes for such devastation are
generally due to 2 (two) forms of
malpractices:
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