non bio degradable waste from fertilizer industry
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Fertilizer chemicals also leach out of the soil when water migrates through it, taking it down to the water table or aquifer. Crops also uptake these elements, so harvesting and removing the crops reduces the amounts of them each growing season.
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Explanation:
Why are fertilizers non-biodegradable? Fertilizers like nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus, the NPK on the product label, along with micronutrients like calcium, manganese, magnesium, iron, zinc, and others, are all elemental materials. They are the most simple form of each material there is, so they cannot be broken down or biodegraded further.
Fertilizers are not doomed to simply stay in your soil forever, however… and in one way, that is part of the problem with them. Runoff from fertilized soil can be a pollutant in waterways, where they can cause problems like algae blooms, reducing oxygen and killing aquatic life. Fertilizer chemicals also leach out of the soil when water migrates through it, taking it down to the water table or aquifer. Crops also uptake these elements, so harvesting and removing the crops reduces the amounts of them each growing season.
There are products like organic fertilizers that do biodegrade, at least in one sense. Manure or compost contains fertilizers, as part of complex organic source materials, and these will continue to biodegrade after you spread them on your garden.