What are the hazards posed by hazardous wastes?
The risks from hazardous wastes can be life-threatening. Toxicity from these wastes cannot only cause injury or death but can also result in cancers, genetic damage, and fetal harm. Acute damages, which are felt soon after getting affected from hazardous wastes are skin-burns from acids, fire caused by explosive nature of wastes, or an overnight death of the fish to which the waste must have reached. Headaches, allergic reactions, slow pollution of the groundwater are some of the effects that felt over a period of time and are more chronic in nature.
