Soil pollution occurs when soil is contaminated by substances like acid rain, fertilizers, pesticides, and metals from sources such as industrial waste, domestic waste, agriculture, volcanoes, mining, and natural disasters. Agricultural practices that heavily use pesticides and chemical fertilizers can lead to infertile land, soil erosion, and pollution. Volcanic eruptions and mining activities introduce metallic oxides, sulphates, tarry liquids, and solid wastes that cover large areas of soil. Natural disasters disrupt the soil environment and introduce harmful pollutants.

1. SOIL POLLUTION
The contamination of soil with acid rain,
fertilizer, insecticide and pesticide’s
residue, metals like Pb from exhausted
petrol, sulphate, nitrates etc is known as
soil pollution.

2. SOURCE OF SOIL POLLUTION
INDUSTRIALS PRODUCTS DOMESTICS WASTES

3. AGRICULTURE
LEAD TO INFERTLE LAND, SOIL EROSION
AND THEN SOIL POLLUTED
HEAVIELY USED OF PESTISIDE
CHEMICAL FERTILIZER

4. VOLCANIC
ERRUPTION
Metallic oxides, sulphate residues and other tarry liquids, Solid
tarry matters are spread over the soil surface and cover large area.

5. It contains about 67% soil pollutants like rock
particles, heap of wastes from quarries and tarry
liquids like seam of coal, acid tars, waste oil etc
from mining.

6. LANDSLIDE
SOIL EROSION
Natural disasters such as landslides, floods, and soil erosion
can cause soil pollution by disrupting the natural balance and
introducing harmful substances into the soil environment.