why is electroplating harmful for the enviorment
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The pollutants through the electroplating industries are invariably hazardous, as the effluents contaminate air, water and soil. The environmental load in electroplating industry mainly comes with process waste water, hydroxide sludge and sulphuric acid. The untreated rinsing water has plenty of waste.
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The effluent that released from the electroplating industries will contaminate the air, water and soil.
This leads to increase in the environmental pollution .
The electroplating industries mainly release nickel, cadmium, and lead which are very dangerous and toxic substances.
Nickel exposure to humans may damage or effect kidney, liver.
Chromium exposure may lead to respiratory tract diseases.
A lot of water waste and sludge is also released from the electroplating industries will also increase environment pollution.
For all these above reasons, electroplating is hazardous to environment.
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