Environmental Impacts Caused by Chemical Waste Incinerator

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Environmental impacts caused by chemical waste incinerator
Waste incinerators are actually the thermal treatment of the waste products coming out of the
industries and many commercial places. The waste can be a chemical waste or any kind of waste.
In waste incineration process the organic substance in the waste are combusted, and the waste is
concerted into ash, flue gases and heat. So, in this paper the effects of this waste treatment
method are discussed and the effects of the pollutants emitted by the incineration of chemical
waste product on animals and environment will be discussed. Also, what can be done
alternatively to neglect this effect of pollutants emitted during the treatment process will be
elaborated briefly.
There is a high percentage of waste which is generated by health care organizations and these
wastes are biomedical waste. Such wastes have to be treated before dumping it into the
environment because they can have bad effect on the natural bodies and the environment, and
also, these are 10%-25% of the total waste generated in a unite time and can have really a bad
impact on animal health and hence, are very important to be treated (Lelieveld et al., 2015). So,
for treating these biomedical wastes coming out of the health care organization is treated by
combusting the waste, which is called chemical waste incineration.
This treatment of chemical waste can also be dangerous to the environment. This is because
incinerator releases a lot of pollutants during its process and that can pollute the environment and
can be dangerous for animal health. Some of the harmful ingredients which are emitted of
incinerators are acid gasses, oxides of nitrogen, and oxides of Sulphur. These pollutants can
spread toxicity in the water resources which can results in spread of dangerous diseases caused
due to contaminated water. Not only in water, toxicity be spread in the air and the whole
environment as well, which can cause many dangerous diseases. Global warming, acidification,
photochemical ozone is some of the side effects of the pollutants emitted by the incinerators.
There are bad effects on the health of animals and can results in the dangerous diseases like
cancer, hormonal defects, increase in sex ratio and congenital abnormalities (Avino and Russo,
2018).
Following are the major impacts: Increasing noise pollution, Risk to health, affecting fauna and
flora, Global warming, Creation of, hazardous waste, Resources wastage.
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