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What do pesticides, heavy metals, hazardous waste, mining for metals, mining for ores, all have in common?

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pollution of land and water

Step-by-step explanation:

Pesticides, heavy metals hazardous waste and mining for metals or ores all cause land pollution.

These contaminate the land kill the useful microbes present in the soil. Moreover, when used excessively these chemical enter in our food chain and through into our body and cause various disease. Minamata disease in japan is one such example cause be mercury contamination.

These cause water pollution too. Chemical waste in water give rise to eutrophication and leaching.

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