Land pollution is the degradation in the quality of the soil and other land features due to human actions. This is caused by processes such as:
It involves the introduction of xenobiotic substances into the natural environment. This disrupts and damages the natural soil and land of the region. In agriculture, it is caused by the use of foreign chemicals like pesticides which degrade and depreciate soil quality and kill certain plant life. Land pollution can also contaminate the soil and, by extension, can lower the quality of groundwater that is trapped beneath that soil. Another cause is the disruption of the balance between nutrients for plants and animals within a region. This careful balance is often obliterated by the extreme level of animal farming and plant farming which deprives areas of their nutrients and leaves non-arable soil that cannot be used for any agricultural purposes for a lengthy period of time until the land is healed, which may require human support and intervention. Mining may cause the region’s physical characteristics to be permanently altered or destroyed.