Heavy metals won't degrade and cannot be destroyed, they are components of the Earth's crust. Heavy metals are essential for our bodies, in small quantities, however, they are poisonous in higher concentrations. Heavy metals ‘bioaccumulate', meaning once inside our bodies they often accumulate faster than they can be metabolised or excreted when the contaminants are in excess.
Heavy metals are impossible to see with the naked eye, to check for Heavy metals have the soil around your house checked.
Have your soil checked for heavy metals and, if excessive amounts are found, remediate – Remediation of your soil can help minimise the ‘bio-accumulation' of heavy metals, which can be toxic to the body.
If you shovel the topsoil yourself without a protective mask and put it out the front so it will go into the storm water drains then not only is inhalation of heavy metals dangerous, but leaving your soil near storm drains will cause it to be washed into storm drains and taken out to sea.
Leaving the heavy metals in your soil and tracking them into your house may increase the amount of ‘bio-accumulation' of the various metals in your body, which can be toxic.
