During buring, the smoke particles enter in the air in the form of pollution.
Industrial pollution can impact your health by introducing harmful particles that can become suspended in the air as well as heavier materials that remain on the surface, contaminating soil and groundwater. Sources of pollution have increased steadily since the Industrial Revolution due to consumer demand and reliance on conventional energy resources such as coal and oil. In 2013, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found that nearly 200,000 people die each year from air pollution alone. Pollution is often worse in developing countries such as India which have
few environmental regulations that control factory production.
The popularity of mass-produced factory cell phones and consumer electronics has increased the amount of heavy metals in the environment. Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic are introduced to the environment during factory production as well as when a consumer throws them away. These metals are toxic to things living in soil, animals and humans, sometimes causing immediate death. They can also accumulate in smaller amounts inside the body over time leading to chronic illness.
Carbon Dioxide
Nearly 85 percent of energy in the United States comes from carbon emitting fossil fuels. When burned, these fossil fuels emit harmful gases including carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide which increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere resulting in global warming. Air pollution is much worse in highly populated cities where more factories emit pollution in close proximity to humans.
Agricultural Waste
Large commercial factory farms produce an enormous amount of waste that includes animal blood, feces and pesticides. Some have been caught dumping waste directly into rivers, which also increases the chance of disease transmission through fluids such as blood. The excess nutrients from factory farms, such as animal feces and fertilizers, can disrupt the natural level of nutrients in the water, causing decreased dissolved oxygen levels from an overgrowth of decomposers, which often results in fish-kills. Pesticides from agricultural waste also end up in soil, water and air, and can be toxic to the living things they come in contact with.