Causes of Land Pollution

Contamination of land is about contaminating the land surface of the Earth through dumping urban waste, industrial waste disposal, mining and misusing the soil by harmful agricultural practices. Soil contaminated by chemicals in pesticides used for agricultural purposes. They are used to kill insects, so they can not give any harm to agriculture.




There are many other causes of land pollution. Contaminate water from plants, chemicals from farms, hospital waste, acid rain and other pollution can lead to land too.

  

Contamination of land is also called hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. That's why we can say that we, the people, and some environmental factors may lead to the contamination of land.