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Chemicals Impact on the Environment

Chemicals have a lot of dangerous impacts on the environment. There are fish being born with three eyes and even babies being born with birth defects because there mother was exposed to dangerous chemicals during pregnancy. You can be exposed to dangerous chemicals without even knowing because some chemicals have no scent ant they can not be seen. We are exposed to dangerous chemicals every day. You are also exposed to dangerous chemicals in your house. Most of them come from the different cleaning agents in your home. The chemicals you use at home can end up in the lakes or rivers close to your home. This can impact the quality of the drinking water for the animals that live in that environment.

There are also many different ways that human’s impact the environment by using allot of chemicals. We use products that we don’t know of that can impact the environment. The products can be made out of any chemicals that can destroy the environment and affect our health. The chemicals in our products have impacted us a lot by polluting the earth and by causing global warming. The fast food industry impacted the environment a lot because they served their food in Styrofoam cups and containers. The Styrofoam containers and cups were made by injecting polystyrene in to the mould of the container. Then a gas is injected in to the polystyrene so it takes the shape of a cup



The gas injected in to the polystyrene is called the chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC. This gas was used as an expanding gas. When we throw away the containers away the CFC find their way in the environment. After there in to the environment the react with the ozone, O3. The gas mostly reduces the upper ozone of the atmosphere. This is very harm full because the upper ozone takes in the ultraviolent radiation of the sun before it hits the earth. The wide scale use of the CFCs resulted in a lot of it being released in to the atmosphere. That caused a significant tinning of the ozone layer. Without the ozone layer to taking in the ultraviolent radiation the earth is becoming hotter. Without the ozone layer to taking in the ultraviolent radiation the earth is becoming hotter. This is affecting a lot of people that live in hot places. The weather is getting hotter each year. In the cold countries the amount of snowfall is being reduced. The ozone becoming thinner is also impacting the animals and their habitats. Many animals like the penguins are at risk of going extinct because the ice is melting in the North Pole. The polar bears are also losing their homes because of the ozone becoming thinner. Because the ice is melting in the North Pole the sea levels are rising and many places are going to be flooded because of it. Many Islands are disappearing because the sea levels are rising.

In the 1990s a chemical company developed a process that uses carbon dioxide as an expanding gas. They used this compound because it is non polluting and cheaper then CFCs. Also carbon dioxide is not flammable so it’s safer for the workers involved in the process. But carbon dioxide is still a greenhouse gas. media type="youtube" key="KR_OoJr9CIA" height="315" width="420" align="center"