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Detergents are

cleaning products
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manufactured from
synthetic chemical
compounds, as adverce of detergent
opposed to soap,
which originates
with natural
substances like lye
and plant saponins.
Detergents figure in
Phosphate-containing an extensive array
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detergents can create algae of industrial and
blooms in fresh water. These in home cleaning
turn use up the oxygen available applications,
for aquatic life, according to
Lenntech, a water treatment including laundry
facilities corporation affiliated and dishwasher
with the Technical University at detergents.
Delft, the Netherlands. This Released into the
problem occurs because flow of wastewater
phosphorous and nitrogen from coming from the
detergents are nutrients that home, these
stimulate excessive growth of detergents can have
algae and other aquatic
vegetation, reports the Indiana far-reaching
University News Room. Nutrient environmental
loading with phosphates from impacts.
laundry and dishwasher
detergents, as well as from
suburban lawn chemicals, can
lead to eutrophication, a process
by which a freshwater aquatic
ecosystem slowly dies due to
continual oxygen deplation

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