answersLogoWhite

0

Are electronics dumped in landfills dangerous to people's health?

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

What are three other items that should not be placed in trash and dumped in landfills?

Tires, electronics, and dead animals


Why landfills are coming upfast near large cities?

the large wastes generated is dumped into landfills. the landfills are growing into large size and are coming up fast near large cities.


Where should construction waste be dumped?

Construction waste should be dumped at designated landfills or recycling facilities to ensure proper disposal and minimize environmental impact.


Place where garbage is hauled and buried?

Landfills, usually, though solid human waste goes to a sewerage system.


How can industrial activity cause land pollution?

Humans have dumped many trash wastes into landfills. Some people litter on the ground too.


What happens when all the trash goes to landfills?

It gets dumped in the ocean most frequently. Sometimes it's burned. The burning is pretty cool, you should watch it some time. Fire!


What is it call when an area where garbage is dumped and covered with dirt?

It is called a landfill. Landfills are engineered sites where waste materials are deposited, compacted, and covered with soil to minimize environmental impact.


What happens when metal glass and plastic are dumped into landfills?

Metals will react according to their type and chemical composition of the soil. Iron may rust away altogether eventually, turning into nothing more than a red stain in the ground. Most other will oxidize slower and hang around longer. Glass will just stay there for pretty much forever. Plastic will decay over time, but we don't know as yet how long it will endure buried.


How do you decrease land and water pollution?

Runoff from overuse of chemical fertilisers in agriculture could be stopped.Paint and chemicals dumped in unlined (and so unsafe) landfills could be stopped.Illegal dumping (which is usually of unsafe materials) could be stopped.Littering (which is mostly just visual pollution) could be stopped.


What are positive effects of a landfill?

landfills can be good because if we didnt have landfills there would be garbage all over our world.We need landfills to put all the garbage in. Landfills can be bad because it can polute the air. the landfills put nitrogen in the ground and that isn't good.


Why should nuclear waste be dumped in the desert?

It shouldn't. The exportation of toxic and dangerous substances to a foreign land is illegal under international law.


What does dumped mean in spanish?

Arrojado (if dumped like something was dumped into the sea)Terminado (if dumped like someone broke with you)