Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants: Benefits and Side-effects

This report discusses the benefits and side effects of Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants in the soil. These pollutants have a dangerous effect on human beings. They are both beneficial and non-beneficial for the soil. They increase the production of crops by destroying weeds and the insects present on the crops. This results in the speed growth of crops but disturbs the fertility of the soil. They are harmful to the health of farmers, sprayers and workers, as these people are involved in the process of crop production. These pollutants are causing disease among the human beings like cancer, hypertension, gastric cancer and birth malfunctions. The remains of these chemicals are thrown in the water bodies and make them polluted. These pollutants are the reason of the scarcity of fresh drinking water on the Earth. Ground Contamination and the soil Acidification are the major problem created by these chemicals. This report mainly focuses on the adverse effects of Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants.

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Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants
Benefits and Side-effects
7/24/2018

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Executive Summary
In this report, a brief discussion will be carried on the benefits and the side effects of
Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants in the soil. These pollutants have a dangerous effect on the
human beings. They are both beneficial and non-beneficial for the soil. They increase the
production of crops by destroying weeds and the insects present on the crops. This results in the
speed growth of crops but disturbs the fertility of the soil. They are harmful to the health of
farmers, sprayers and workers, as these people are involved in the process of crop production.
These pollutants are causing disease among the human beings like cancer, hypertension, gastric
cancer and birth malfunctions. The remains of these chemicals are thrown in the water bodies
and make them polluted. These pollutants are the reason of the scarcity of fresh drinking water
on the Earth. Ground Contamination and the soil Acidification are the major problem created by
these chemicals. This report mainly focuses on the adverse effects of Endocrine Disrupting
Pollutants.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Benefits of Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants...................................................................................3
Side Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Pollutant...............................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants
Endocrine Disrupting chemicals are the pollutants that interfere within the human body
endocrine system and release adverse neurological, developmental, immune and reproductive
effects on both wildlife and human beings. Wide range of chemicals both manmade and natural
chemicals are included in this pollutant and these chemicals are polychlorinated biphenyls,
plasticizers, DDT, pharmaceuticals dioxin compounds and pesticides. Endocrine Disruptors are
found in day-to-day products like toys, metal containers, cosmetics, plastic bottles and flame-
retardants. These products are thrown in the soil and affect its yield capacity. This pollutant
poses greater risk in the soil and affects its nutrition level, which affects the crop production.
These pollutants reduce the soil fertility (EPA, 2017).
Benefits of Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants
It is explained in many studies that the use of Endocrine Pollutants on soils increases the
increases the crop production. These pollutants have the power of killing insects from the crop.
Production of food grains is increased four times by the use of these pollutants. As the Australia
has started using these pollutants, economic loss of the country is reduced and increase in the
economic margin and the yield in the soils is increased. Endocrine Pollutants helps in increasing
the growing rate of crop, improvement in water quality, increase in water retention and acidity in
the soil is reduced. They are essential in increasing the crop production to cater to the
requirement of the growing population (Savci, 2012).
It is beneficial in the soil productivity improvement. Crop yield and seeds growth have
increased because of the use of these chemicals. These pollutants are used for effective weed
control for improving yield in the rice. These are the only way to kill insects that are spreading
deadly diseases, which are causing death among the human beings. Endocrine pollutants are
beneficial for the economy and the agriculture practices in the end.
These chemicals have long duration, low cost and have the capacity of killing the insects
causing malaria among the human beings. The use of these chemicals on the crop is necessary as
it kills the harmful insects from the crops and helps in preventing the crops from causing
diseases, which are hazardous and dangerous to the human health (National Institute of
Environment health sciences, 2018).

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Side Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Pollutant
Endocrine disrupting Pollutants impose a severe threat on the fertility of the soil. These
pollutants disturbs the soil ecosystem and it is becomes difficult with the use of these chemicals
to balance to maintain equilibrium among the components in the soil and its microorganism.
These chemicals kill the microorganism that maintains the fertility in the soil. They disturb the
soil enzymes that are present in the soil, which are crucial for the production of crops (Aktar,
2009).
Due to the repeated application of these chemicals on the soil, insects on the crops are
getting unaffected to these pollutants, which results in the damage of the crops and not the
insects from the crops. Increasing use of these chemicals in the agriculture process results in the
absorption by the plants; this disturbs and creates negative effects on the ecosystem.
These chemicals disturb the mobility, life and persistence of the soil, as soil includes
millions of organisms like bacteria, fungi, earthworms and many more. These organisms play an
important role in the crops by utilizing nutrients that is necessary for the plants to grow.
Earthworms are the best friends of farmers, as they increase the fertility of the soil and these
chemicals kill those earthworms (Azcentral, 2017).
As these pollutants are used in the production of crops and enrichment of vector-borne
ailments, but they also leads to serious health problem to human beings and environment. Each
part of the population is affected by these chemicals and posing a serious threat to the lives of
human and to the environment. Workers, farmers, mixers, agriculture farmers and sprayers these
people are largely affected by these pollutants. Endocrine pollutants contaminate water,
vegetarian, soil and turf. The crops grown with the use of these chemicals are not healthy for the
small children. These pollutants not only kill the insects present in the soil but also toxic to other
organism like bird, earthworms, non-target plants and fishes. Application of these fertilizers on
the plants and the soil reach the water surface and pollutes the water for the further use
(Livestrong, 2017).
The excessive use of these fertilizers leads to the acidification in the soil, as the organic
matter present in the soil decreases by the application of these chemicals on the crops. Clay soils
are less prone to acidification in the soil as compared to Sandy Soils. Clay soils have an
advantage of reducing the use of excess fertilizers on the soil. The food products produced today
are less in vitamins and nutrients, as the increasing use of these fertilizers on the soil destroys the
fertility of the soil. Various researches studied that, those crops are chemically fertilized have
less potassium, calcium and magnesium content. The excessive application of these fertilizers
damaged the leaf and turns them in yellow and brown color, which in turn causes the plants to
die (Hunker, 2018).

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Groundwater contamination is one of the major issues resulting from the use of these
chemicals on the soil. These chemicals are water-soluble and remain in the water for years and
causing dangerous effects on the soil. This will leads to the acid rain, depletion of ozone layer
because of the release of harmful substance by this process. Groundwater contamination results
in diseases like goiter, hypertension, gastric cancer, stomach cancer and birth malformations
among the human beings. Their excessive use may also cause respiratory ailments and disturb
growth of crops (Environment, 2015).
The nitrogen present in these chemicals affects the water used for drinking and farming.
The chemicals like carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane and ammonia present in these pollutants
contributed to the greenhouse gas existing in the atmosphere (World Health Organization, 2018).

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Conclusion
On the basis of above report, this can be concluded that the Endocrine Disrupting
Pollutants are very harmful and dangerous to the crop production and on the lives of human-
beings. They pose a threat on the fertility of the soil. These chemicals are useful in killing the
insects and weeds and control the vector-borne diseases. These chemicals show a tremendous
increase in the growth of crops. These fertilizers releases harmful gases in the environment and
contribute to the greenhouse gases and causing air pollution. These pollutants are used by the big
industries manufacturing metal, plastic cans and bottles. They throw their wastes in the water
bodies or in the soil polluting our water resources and soil. These chemicals make the water
polluted for drinking and in farming. The presence of these pollutants in the soil disturbs the soil
fertility and the yield capacity of the soil. These fertilizers and pesticides disturb the nutrition
levels in the soil. Endocrine disrupting Pollutants creates the problem of ground contamination
and soil acidification (ResearchGtae, 2016).

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