if all the waste we generate is bio degradable, will this have no impact on the enviroment.?

Answer 1

The conditions that you have speculated seems to be unrealistic, as you may be aware of the presence of xenobiotics in the environment. By conventional definition xenobiotics are the compounds that have been recently introduced into the environment, by the industries that make goods for human welfare as a product or a byproduct. Microorganisms have developed biodegradation capability by their regular encouter with those compounds. If the compound is organic then microorganisms deveop a way to harvest it as a potential carbon source and if the compound is toxic then they develop a way to transform it chemically to a less toxic or nontoxic compound. Now this process of adaptaion require several generations for microorganisms in contact of those compounds. thats why xenobiotics are usually nonbiodegradable because they have been introduced in the evironment recently in the evolutionary time scale.

Now if we come to your contions that is if all the waste we dispose into the environment is biodegradable what would be its effect to the environment.

You can recall from the history when their was no excistance of xenobiotics I think there may not have been any problem of disposing their community waste into the environment.

So I am optimistic if such a scenario would be feasible in future.

Answer 2

If disposed of properly, then no. It might even be used as fertilizers or other useful stuff or just recycle it. But still, even paper is bio-degradeable but does take time to completely degrade, polluting the environment till then.

Answer 3

What we call "The Environment" is just the collection of everything which surrounds us. There will always be an environment. The problem is that if our toxins in the environment build up, it will become unliveable for us and/or for other animals. It will eventually reach a natural balance, unfortunately, it may not include us.

Answer 4

it may have a negative impact .

the reason is a balance sould be there in the food chain.an imbalance can be created if there is less bio degradable or more.

Answer 5

No. It may kill or harm populations before is degrades, its degradation may require enough oxygen to deplete lakes, and the degradation products may change the soil (e.g. acids).