The Effects of Improper Waste Management to Humans.

Waste management is important and crucial to humans. It is actually the collection, storage, processing, disposing, and recycling of waste products. These waste products are mainly of household waste, industrial waste, nuclear power plants and so on. The problem of improper waste management is on the rise from day to day. If the waste products are not managed properly, it will cause a lot of bad influences to humans. The effects of improper waste management to humans are contamination of soil, floods, extinction of plants and animals, air contamination and depletion of ozone layer. Firstly, the improper waste management will bring up contamination of soil that will bring harms to humans. Normally waste products that can be recycled will be buried underground, so that they could contaminate the soil surrounding it. Carcinogen is a substances that causes the breed of tumours or cancerous cell in human body. DEHA, a type of carcinogen will be released from the breaking down of plastic water bottle. This type of chemical can cause weight loss, liver problem and reproductive issues to humans. Furthermore, it can pass through the soil and cause contamination that can result in damage to the plant and animal cell as well as the sources of water. Ink that is use in newspaper or paper adds on toxicity to the soil too. If the waste is not contained correctly in a landfill, it will then contaminate the ground surrounding it. The polluted water will contain harmful substance or toxic that will cause health problems to humans such as stomachache and so on. So, this contamination will cause health risk to humans.
Flood is also one of the results from the improper waste management. This is mainly caused by those trash or waste products that have been thrown by people into the river or the waste products that have been excrete from those industries without having those waste processed in a proper way. Thus, it will then cause the river depth to be shallow; the water will