ICSE Class 10 Geography Question 1 of 29

Waste Management — Impact of Waste Accumulation — Question 1

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What is meant by spoilage of landscape? How does it affect the environment?

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Spoilage of landscape refers to the heaps of rubbish garbage and trash in urban cities that is left uncared or untreated. It affects the environment in following ways:

  1. It spoils the aesthetic beauty of the land and causes severe damage to the earth.
  2. It becomes the breeding ground for insects, flies and mosquitoes.
  3. It may spread infectious diseases.