When we clean our homes are we thinking of how the cleaning agents affect the environment? Cleaning agents does the job in disinfecting or degerming the things in our home with its chemical ingredients like chlorine, alkali’s, phosphates and as well as acids which has harmful effects in the environment.
The toxic, non biodegradable chemicals we use to keep ourselves, our clothes and our homes clean and safe from pests produce toxic waste that seeps into our soil and pollutes it.
According to geoscientist, soil pollution can lead to water pollution if toxic chemicals leak into the groundwater, or if contaminated overspill reaches streams and lakes. In turn, polluted soil naturally contributes to air pollution by releasing volatile compounds into the atmosphere. The chemicals and other waste products of our consumption dumped on or buried in the ground are not all biodegradable and do create harmful fluids and gases, which leak into the air, water and soil. Heavy metals and other potentially toxic elements are the most serious soil pollutants in sewage. If absorbed continuously or in large amounts, the affected soil becomes unable to support even plant life. From human waste, to solid waste, to nuclear waste, human activity has created a negative chain by which neither humans no animals can live in certain parts of the world today.
In my next post I will be tackling on the alternatives of harmful chemicals. It is hard to find alternative to this cleaning agents because pests or parasites nowadays have built immunity. But for sure there are better alternatives to these harmful substances which I am going to research.
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