Toxic Waste Effects1

A detailed Summary of Toxic Waste Effects1

Canada and all of the developed countries in the world produce some

kind of toxic waste(s). It doesn't matter whether it's a chocolate bar

wrapper or a canister of highly radioactive plutonium, they're potentially

dangerous to us and/or our natural environment unless properly disposed of.

Toxic waste is defined as any waste that is hazardous to human health

or to our natural environment. According to the Institute of Chemical

Waste Management, about 15% of our garbage is classified as toxic, and only

85% (approximately) of that is disposed of properly. The rest is either

illegally dumped or accidentally mixed up with non-toxic garbage. That 15%

may not seem like a lot, but when you consider the millions of tons of

toxic waste that we produce every year, that 15% is enormous. The

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that we produce one ton of

toxic wastes for every single person living in Canada every year. That

means that the 15% represents about 4.2 million tons of toxic waste.

Toxic wastes which are dumped in improper sites can seep into

People figured that the oceans were so huge that garbage would just

A huge pile of toxic waste looms over Canada. This waste is not the

plants. We are our own worst enemies. Pogo, a comic strip character who I

learned about last year in english once said... "We have met the enemy, and

US has created a multi-billion dollar fund called "SuperFund" to try and

This is done by adding chemicals to the waste, which causes it to change

other words 'recycled'. For example, several kinds of metals can be

"disappear", and sink to the bottom. Well, they were wrong. Chemicals

clean up areas that have been contaminated. Canada is also working along

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