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Chemical Reactions and Equations
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Give any two ways in which non-biodegradable substances would affect the environment.

Answer

Non-biodegradable substances affect the environment in the following way.
(i) Non-biodegradable substances cannot degrade and contaminate soil and water resources .
(ii) They may cause bio-magnification in the food chain and end up in humans. For example, pesticides like DDT enter the food chain, biomagnify and affect human being and other organism.

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