DDT and most plastics are.....
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DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was invented as first of the modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s.
Initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations.
It is effective for insect control in crop and livestock production, institutions, homes and exteriors.
DDT's quick success as pesticide and broad use in the United States and other countries
DDT and most plastics are harmful to the environment.
DDT or Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is an organochlorine, which was developed as a pesticide in 1874. Till recent years, it was in widespread use in agriculture and households until it was found to be extremely harmful to plants, animals and the environment as a whole.
Plastics are semi-synthetic organic compounds, most of them non-biodegradable and therefore harmful to the environment as well as to animals.