Soil pollution

What is Soil ?

Soil pollution.

How is it caused ?

Types of soil pollution

What are the effects of soil pollution ?

How can we control soil pollution ?

Soil is the thin layer of organic and inorganic materials that covers the Earth's rocky surface.

It is defined as the build-up in soils of persistent toxic compounds, chemicals, salts, radioactive materials, or disease causing agents.

Soil pollution is also caused by means other than the direct addition of xenobiotic (man-made) chemicals such as agricultural runoff waters, industrial waste materials, acidic precipitates, and radioactive fallout.

Discharge of industrial waste into the soil

Percolation of contaminated water into the soil

Rupture of underground storage tanks

Deforestation and Soil erosion

- Agricultural Soil Pollution

- Soil pollution by industrial effluents and solid wastes

- Pollution due to urban activities

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