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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF HUMANITY’S CARELESSNESS PART III: LANDFILL WASTES AND PESTICIDES

Ranjit Rajesh1, A.V. Galchenko2

1 Department of Oncology, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia,
Miklukho-Maklay Street 6, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

2 Department of rehabilitative diet therapy,
Federal Research Centre of Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety,
Ustinsky proezd, 2/14, Moscow, 109204, Russian Federation

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ABSTRACT. We, humans, have invented many technologies in the past few decades to enhance our lifestyles. Some of them induce the invention of electronics like cell phones, better cooking apparatuses, plastics, and insecticides for better farming. These inventions are utilitarian at first look, but the other side of them greatly goes missing. We are still manufacturing tons of cell phones, whereas the old disposed phones are not properly recycled, hence they stay in the landfills polluting the environment. The toxic elements required to manufacture such electronics also have similar effects. Moreover, the convenient cooking apparatuses are coated with chemicals that are harmful to humans. Similarly, the insecticides, used for better farming are actually deleterious in the long run.

KEYWORDS: electronics, pesticides, plastics, cookware, gallium, bismuth, indium, lithium, cadmium.