Question

Impact of waste accumulaton for geography

Answer 1

Impacts of Waste Accumulation:

Industrialization on a massive scale, increasing urbanization, advance technology in agriculture and changing life pattern have resulted in the production of huge amount of wastes. The improper waste disposal creates many ecological and social problems, for instance, accumulation of wastes in the densely populated areas, disposal of urban sewage and industrial wastes discharged into rivers etc. affect soil, air and water ecosystem. Chemical, biological and explosive wastes pose immediate or long run danger to the life of man, plants and animals.

The dumping of solid wastes is hazardous to human health. It has been estimated that about twenty-five human diseases are associated with solid waste. There is an increase in the number of rats and flies due to dumping of wastes in open places and they are the carriers of other organisms responsible for several dreaded diseases.

The flies which carry pathogenic organisms are spreading diseases like dysentery, diarrhoea etc. It is estimated that about 70,000 flies are produced in one cubic foot of garbage. Dumping of solid wastes has a number of adverse effects on all the components of an ecosystem and they also affect the aesthetic sense as well.

Answer 2

accumulate wastes easily becomes the breeding ground of the

mosquitoes,house flies and rodents etc which can lead to the spread of many

diseases like dengue,malaria and plague etc.Further in the rainy

seasons,waste flows down into the nearby rivers or streams polluting the

rivers thus impacting the environment and geography