Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects (e.g., plastic bottles and much more) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects wildlife, humans and wildlife habitat. Dear researchgate members, please enlighten the adverse effects of plastic on daily life and also provide some pieces of advice to reduce the plastic usage and wastage to a secure environment.
The chemical structure of most plastics renders them resistant to many natural processes of degradation and as a result they are slow to degrade. This has led to a high prominence of plastic pollution in the environment. Plastic pollution can afflict land, waterways, and oceans.
Dear Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak thanks for highlighted the harmful impact of plastics on the environmental pollution.
Dear Nour Shakir
appreciate your update on the impact of plastic on environmental pollution.Please elaborate further on how to minimize the plastic usage and wastage to a secure environment.
Plastics are mostly non biodegradable in any type of environment (soil, water and air)
Usage of plastics for food rappers cause human impacts
It breaks into microplastics(less than 5 mm) cause more damage to living resources
Dear Nagalakshmi Radhakrishnan apprecate your response to highlight the harful impact of plastic on the living resources.
Disposable plastic bags are an environmental problem for several reasons. First, they are manufactured from oil, creating further demand for environmentally damaging oil extraction. Second, they do not quickly and harmlessly biodegade, and due to their disposable nature build up far more quickly than they break down. This causes a waste problem. Third, due to their lightness and shape, they are readily prone to be blown or washed away to places outside the waste management stream. They get caught in trees and waterways.. They are unsightly, but more importantly they are frequently hazardous or lethal to wildlife (choking, suffocation, internal blockage). Probably billions have ended up in the sea, to break up into tiny pieces and causing widespread harm when ingested, at all levels of the food chain. Even while whole they are hazardous - turtles, for instance, mistake them for jellyfish, and may die upon eating them. Back on land, bags can block drainage systems, and thus contribute to localised flooding. Despite all this, disposable plastic bags are by no means the greatest threat to our environment. Some have argued that paper bags actually carry a bigger ecological 'footprint' (felled trees, higher energy input to manufacture, heavier weight in transit) despite the fact that paper readily biodegrades. Plastic bags are a legitimate target for criticism, however, since completely unnecessary. The reusable bag has been around for millenia, and does the job as well if not better. At the very least, disposable bags ought to be used a second time as bin liners, which also ensures that they end up in the managed waste stream, rather than causing havoc to wildlife.
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