DON BOSCO CHURCH VADODARA

A 9-minutes video that explains about Plastic Pollution and how we humans turning the whole world into the plastic.

– Plastic is cheap, sterile, and convenient. This led to the mass production of plastic, which caused the plastic to be a deadly thing taking over our lives.

– Plastic is saturating the environment, causing it to seep into our food and making its way into our bodies.

– Plastic can be easily mass-produced and its raw materials are available in vast amounts and are incredibly cheap.

– Since plastic is so durable, it takes between 500 and 1,000 years for it to breakdown.

– 40% of plastics are used for packaging.
Since its invention, we have produced 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic and more than 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic have become waste.

– What happened to all the wasted plastic?
9% was recycled
12% was burnt
But 79% is still around
A lot of it ends up in the ocean, about 8 million tons a year.
Because it ends up in the ocean, 90% of the seabirds have ended up eating plastic, many of them starve as their stomachs are full of indigestible trash.
In 2018, a sperm whale had washed up in Spain. He had eaten 32 kilos of plastic bags, nets, and a drum.

– Microplastics are an even bigger threat.
51 trillion such plastics float around in the ocean and are easily swallowed by all kinds of marine life.
Many chemicals added to plastics are injurious to health that may interfere with our hormones or worse, cause cancer.

– Stopping plastic altogether is complicated, as the substitutes for plastic cause a higher environmental impact.
Everything we use has a negative impact on the environment, and it’s difficult to find a balance between them.

– 90% of plastic from rivers come from Asia and Africa.
The Yangtze in China flushes 1.5 million tons of plastic into the ocean each year.

– As long as we don’t address plastic pollution from a global perspective, we will not solve it.