Damage to the Environment Overview Deforestation Chemical Dumping Chemicals used in all stages of drug plant farming and drug production can badly hurt a forest ecosystem because the chemicals are handled, used, and disposed of carelessly.
Farmers tend to spray chemicals to help the plants grow or kill weeds and usually spray too much.
The next time it rains, the chemicals on the crop fields are washed into the nearest streams and rivers where they spread further. After converting plants to drugs, drug producers have poisonous liquids left over. They get rid of this poisonous waste by dumping it into the nearest river or other body of water or even in fields and forests. Other poisonous wastes used in drug manufacturing include gasoline, kerosene, sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, and other chemicals. All these substances hurt other plants in the forests, animals who eat those plants, animals who eat those animals, and so on.