Environmental Impacts of Polythene in Our Communities
Human activities generate many by-products which are generally seen as useless and discard as wastes. These massive amounts of wastes subsequently find their ways into ground, air, water every day and at the end becomes big problem to human health and economic development. One of such by-products is polythene popularly called Leda in Hausa. The used of polythene is increasing day by day , it is being used in almost every day activity of life by implication the pollution level caused by it will also increase thereby affecting almost every kind of environment including terrestrial as well as aquatic biome. Picture from Google Today in all the nooks and crannies of our communities, polythene are scattered everywhere and caused problems because it can’t decompose easily, it disseminate germs through pollution, block water ways and affects aquatic environment among others. With this in mind and going by the volume of polythene dumped into our water bodies and lan...
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