User:Vantnn/sandbox

Land pollution affects the way our Earth functions. It destroys habitats and drastically impacts animals' lives. It is the destruction of the Earth's surface, the result of mans activity and misuse of lands resources.

When waste is not disposed properly or when humans put chemicals into the soil in the form of pesticides and fertilizers to grow crops.The animals mistake it for food and ingest it, without knowing how the garbage could affect their bodies. The ducks at Hawthorne Park could consume the garbage and end up sick. "In many areas of the globe, birds inadvertently feed on plastic floating on the water, mistaking it for food, and many times this ingestion leads to death and even the death of their young." There is a chance that the ducks and coyotes at Hawthorne could get tangled up in plastic and suffocate or get crushed by metal or heavy objects that could kill them. Plastic waste is the most dangerous, it slowly and painfully provides death for the animals who weren't so lucky.

Garbage either travels downstream or sinks to the bottom of the stream, the garbage can also affect a number of habitats. A number of citizens living in Surrey show a lack of effort or care to place litter in its proper place. The amount of garbage that was originally on the land has a large chance of being washed into the streams. It can build up in the streams over the years and can block the path for water flow; ruining habitats for fish and other animals. Soil pollution causes numerous diseases; Cancer, Kidney disease, skin infections, and stomach infections for humans, but some of them affect animals as well.

Chemicals could be spilled into the soil and grass surrounding the pathways and trails, the vegetation that grows there will be affected by the dangerous chemicals. For example, the berry bushes in Hawthorne Park could be growing on an area of land that had chemical waste spilled on it in the past. Citizens who wander by and pick a berry off the bush and eat it will be ingesting the chemicals from the previous spill. We can also inhale contaminants that are air-born. Inhaling contaminants can damage tissues and can cause tissue reactions.