Plastic Pollution And Its Effects

Thousands of plastic factories are producing tons of plastic goods which are popularly used by the people because of their ease, cheapness and convenience. Due to non-biodegradable nature they cause hazardous negative impact on the environment. Disposal of plastic waste which are major cause of environment pollution becomes carcinogenic to human, birth defects, impaired immunity, endocrine disruption, development and reproductive effect. In addition to dumping of plastic material into marine

of plastic pollution, a member of the Council of the British Plastics Federation and a Fellow of the Plastics Institute, stated that “Plastics litter is a very small proportion of all litter and causes no harm to the environment except as an eyesore”(Peña). “His comments not only illustrates how the deleterious environmental effects of plastics were entirely overlooked, but also that, apparently, even the plastics industry failed to predict the great boom in the production and use of plastics of

Every year, millions of tons of plastic are tossed into the ocean, harming all types of marine animals as well as the environment. Hundreds of marine mammals like whales and dolphins are found washed ashore filled with bottle caps, plastic bags and basically anything they can swallow. Not only does plastic pollution harm marine life, but it affects the entire ecosystem. If a predator is dependent on a certain species for prey and the predator has a role in the environment, it is important for the

Parker’s incredible invention of plastic would turn into a worldwide catastrophe for our oceans and marine life? For many years now, all of Earth’s oceans have been harmed by plastic pollution. According to Miranda Wang, “right now, the ocean is actually a soup of plastic debris, and there’s nowhere you can go in the ocean where you wouldn’t be able to find plastic particles” (Wang and Yao 1:50). Careless people assume that since the ocean is so large, dumping plastic into it will never affect us. Each

heaping amounts of plastic. A major contributor to this plastic waste can be pinpointed to the average person asking the cashier for a plastic bag to hold their purchases, whether it is made at a clothing store or grocery store. According to the article, “Plastic Bag Pollution,” by Sharon Jacobsen, five-hundred billion plastic bags are currently being used around the world and about one-hundred billion plastic bags are being used primarily by the United States. With all this plastic, does it stay in

In the last decade, plastic pollution has affected the environment and the human health at a higher rate. A lot of situations experienced across the globe have attracted a lot of attention concerning the use of plastic in daily life. Plastic materials that we use every day in everything which is detrimental to the environment has perhaps turned to be the most dumped waste material because it does not decompose quickly. Based on the recent research plastic takes hundreds of years to foul up (Gregory

The effect of plastic pollution and why it needs to be stopped In a society that wants everything convenient and ready to use, plastic found the perfect market for its thousands of uses. Food, toys, medical equipment, and even clothing come either from plastic or at least wrapped or pre-portioned in plastic. While plastic makes the modern world so much cheaper and easier, it also comes with an environmental cost. With the endless amount of products made from or housed in plastic comes an endless

Plastic pollution is all over this world. People purchase plastic almost everyday, even if someone does not realize they are purchasing this synthetic product, most of the time the item’s packaging is made of plastic. Even cleaning products and clothes contain plastic. When plastic was man-made the only thought was the benefits it can create, the deficits were not thought of. Humans and animals are being physically harmed by hazardous chemicals inside plastic and sadly, fifty percent of plastic is

Plastic Pollution in California The beauty of California is slowly fading away and as environmentalists would say, “There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surrounding” (Carson, 366). According to the findings revealed by research foundations in California, marine life is and has been in great danger as a result of plastic remains that accumulates in the Ocean. In his article Daniel Woods states, “Approximately eighty percent of remains

Plastic pollution is something that has plagued the world for decades, but no one has been able to figure out a viable solution for it, until now. Chãoyùe ping has a solution that first starts out locally, then globally. We are going to create youth groups using fundraisers, and send them out to China to clean beach shores of all of the filth created by big name companies who care nothing of their impact on the environment. The youth groups will also travel by boat out to China’s oceans and drag