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Answer» Industries degrade the land in the following ways: - Wastes like glass, harmful chemicals, industrial effluents, packaging, salts and garbage makes the soil useless.
- Mineral processing like grinding limestone for cement industry generates huge amount of dust that settles down on land. It makes land unfit for cultivation.
- Large scale deforestation for setting up production units turns land as wasteland.
- Construction of roads, housing complexes also degrades land.
- The following are the methods that can control land degradation caused by industries.
- Control on mining and quarrying activities.
- Proper discharge of industrial waste and effluents
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