Question

Describe the various types of hazards and hazardous wastes that threaten the environment and human life.  minimum of about 150-200 words

Answer 1

Hazardous substances that can cause more severe health effects, including:
1.behavioral abnormalities
2.cancer
3.genetic mutations
4.physiological malfunctions (e.g., reproductive impairment, kidney failure, etc.)
5.physical deformations, and birth defects.

Severe impacts on the environment can be just as devastating:
killing organisms in a lake or river, destroying animals and plants in a contaminated area, causing major reproductive complications in animals, or otherwise limit the ability of an ecosystem to survive.
Certain hazardous substances also have the potential to explode or cause a fire, threatening both animals and human populations.

Some hazardous substances produce toxic effects in humans or the environment after a single, episodic release.
These toxic effects are referred to as the acute toxicity. Other hazardous substances produce toxic effects in humans or the environment after prolonged exposure to the substance, which is called chronic toxicity.
The effects of hazardious substances can be lethal if this practice would be continoue ...