Land pollution is the act of environmental contamination with man-made waste on land.
Americans generate five pounds of solid waste every day of which only 2% is actually recycled.
These seeping chemicals can potentially contaminate a local body of water adding on to become a mix of land and water pollution.
Soil pollution is mainly due to chemicals in herbicides (weed killers) and pesticides (poisons which kill insects and other invertebrate pests.)
Litter is waste material dumped in public places such as streets, parks, picnic areas, at bus stops and almost anywhere else.
Land pollutions main causes: deposition of solid waste, accumulation of non-biodegradable materials, toxification of chemicals into poisons, alteration of soil chemical composition. The major sources of land pollution can be categories as any of the following: agriculture, mining and quarrying, sewage sludge, dredged spoils, household, demolitions and constructions, or industrial.
Land pollution causes: a loss of 6 million hectares of land per year, a loss of 24 billion tons of topsoil per year, a loss of minimum 15 million acres prime agricultural land to overuse and mismanagement, and the desertification of land results in the lost of 16 million per square miles of world's land surface.