Toxic Wastes created a fairly new problem in our world. Toxins or hazardous chemicals are made to do tons of things nowadays, for example cosmetics, peticides, fertelizers, medical equipment, cleaning products, nuclear weapons, chemical warfare, nuclear stations, laboratory research... and many, many more.
The use of these chemicals started somewhat during the insdustrial revolution, and they have been used since. Toxic wastes are a kind of pollution, but i think they are the one of the most dangerous kinds of pollution that can be made to the world. Radioactive isotopes are used for a variety of things, but they are generally very hazardous to human, animal, and vegetable life. Radioactive and toxic materials often cause cancers, mutations, and other life threatening conditions, and the importance of disposing properly of them is extreme. If not properly disposed off, these chemicals may pollute the lands, people might com in contact with them, or more importantly, they might make their way into the large deposits of undergroung drinking water. This is a very serious issue, because everyone has to drink water, and if the water people drink is contaminated, the effects of these toxins might affect many at once, without they even realizing it. Another way hazardous chamicals can travel is trough acid rains, those of wich travel in the clouds, and then rain down on unsuspecting cities, hazardous wastes can also be in a form of gas, wich makes it very dangerous as well, because people might just breathe them.
Hazardous wastes can sometimes be disposed of by incineration, or storing in their appropriate places, however, this costs a lot of money. For some companies, sometimes it's just easier to dump these dangerous materials out in the nature, and even when they are handled carefully, sometimes accidents happen, wich results in the release of these chemicals. Below is a video about a hazardous waste cleanup performed in 1994.
Pedro Batim
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