Cleanliness, Personal Hygiene, and their Environmental Impact
The release of chemicals from various cleaning and hygiene products poses significant risks to both human health and the environment. These chemicals disrupt natural ecosystems and alter water pH levels when they end up in rivers and oceans, thereby affecting aquatic life.
Cleanliness, Personal Hygiene, and their Environmental Impact
What can be done to help decrease their environmental impact?
- Use green chemistry
- bioplastics
- reduce harmful chemicals and elements
Explain what possible options exist the could help prevent the effects of these chemicals on us.
Avoid using products that contain harmful chemicals on our daily life and use organic products instead in order to stop our constant exposure to substances that are a risk to us.
Explain what possible effect these products could have on the environment.
The chemicals that these products release are not only harmful to our health, but also to the environment since they mess up the balance of nature. Example: When chemicals are end up in rivers and oceans, our water has a different pH level.
List your household products and indicate the toxicity and thier possible effects on you.
Window Cleaners
2-BUTOXYETHANOL - sore throats, pulmonary edema, kidney and liver failure.