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Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organochlorine compound used as an insecticide in agricultural fields. The major disadvantage of DDT is bioaccumulation or not easily degrading nature, due to fat solubility it is accumulated in living tissues. The human body is not able to break it which cause its build up in the food chain and causing poisoning in the animals. Its effects can be seen in birds as the production of thin eggshells vulnerable to damage.

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organochlorinated chemical used as an insecticide. This compound is highly stable in the environment. It readily stays in the adipose tissues of the living organisms and accumulates at the successive trophic level to cause the biomagnification. In soil, it is not acted upon by the decomposing bacteria so it remains persistent for years. Due to its nonbiodegradable nature, it became a major pollutant of the agricultural soil. Its use was banned by the Stockholm Convention of 2001.

A non-biodegradable pollutant is the one that could not be broken down or decomposed by the decomposing fungi and bacteria present in the water and soil. DDT is an organochlorinated compound used as an insecticide that is chemically stable. It does not dissolve in water rather it mixes with the adipose tissue in the living organisms and persists in the food chain, causing biomagnification. In the soil, it destroys the microbial fauna. 

biodegradable wastes are those wastes which easily gets degraded into simpler molecules over a period of time by microorganisms. Biodegradable wastes include human organic wastes, nutrients wastes etc.whereas nonbiodegradable substances accumulate in the environment and causes pollution. These wastes also sometimes accumulate in an organism when the feed upon them and through biomagnification reaches the higher concentration in higher groups.