Industrial pollution
Industrial pollution is responsible, to a large extent, for the alarming levels air, water and soil pollution in India. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that only air pollution accounts for around 2% of all heart and lung diseases, for about 5% of all lung cancers, and for about 1% of all chest infections.
Large quantities of industrial waste is generated mainly in iron and steel, oil, leather, food processing, distilleries, paper, sugar, chemical, soda, paint, petroleum, pesticide and fertiliser industries. According to environmental experts, highly polluting elements like mercury are getting increasingly mixed with the environment due to mismanagement of industrial waste.
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