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Q: What happens when poisonous chemicals accumaate in landfills?
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What happens when poisonous chemicals accumulate in landfills?

The seep into the ground (polluting aquifers that we use for drinking water) and to the surface and cause widespread environmental damage (harm to life on Earth).


What happens when poisonus chemicals accumulate in landfills?

There is no problem when toxics accumulate in properly designed landfills. They are contained there and do not impact the environment. When the materials escape there is a problem.This can be prevented by:Not allowing the materials to be landfilled by seeking alternate destructive disposalEnsuring frequent checks of the landfill's integrityBinding the materials into amatrix which they cannot be moved from


What happens to household refuse?

It gets thrown into the landfills which pollutes the earth.


What happens to plants during the process of phytoremediation?

A.prevent erosion of landfills


How does landfills affect humans?

Well, for starters, they are making people who live anywhere around them sick, and they also create these chemicals that seep into the ground and can contaminate the ground water. they of course are attracting varmints and other creatures that scavenge on the rotting trash, and produce methane gas (there are ways to solve that, which a lot of people of working on that now, powering buildings, plants, etc.) And they probably aren't to great for the local animals. Hope that helped. Joy L. P.


What happens if you mix good chemicals with bad chemicals?

you die


What happens to chemicals after you use a Bunsen burner?

This depends on your experiment and chemicals.


What happens to material that can't be recycled?

Often the materials will end up in landfills or into the water system into the ocean.


What happens when chemicals are combined?

Depends on the chemicals, you get a different reaction from different ones.


What happens to raspberries and the chemicals?

Raspberries often get eaten. Chemicals may be used or misused.


What happens when a chemicals leak into a cell?

the cell usually dies because the chemicals destory the cell.


What happens when you eat halfway raw rice?

It's crunchy, but not poisonous.