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The Impact of Plastic on Environment

By

Mayank Lal

Mentor:

Oliver Stephen

Plastic has helped Humanity for generations and propelled not only the Food Industry but hundreds of industries into an age of efficiency.

Plastic is found everywhere in our homes outside our home but where you wouldn’t want to expect is in the Oceans, animal stomachs. 

Plastic might be beneficial for humanity but plastic but the plastic itself is destroying all the things we’d love to see.

For every 3 tonnes of fish, 1 ton of plastic in the ocean by 2050. 2 million birds and animals die due to the consumption of plastic.

The chemicals in plastic-like VHT found from lining from water bottles, cans, and anything f the ilk can damage human health.

Even in cities plastic clogged in sewage and drains causes floods of entire beaches in plastic.

In every 2 minutes, 2 million plastic bags are been made and from this plastic only 5% plastic is recyclable.

The disposition of plastic is different from person to person for eg. UK and US people dispose the highest amount of plastic in the whole world.

Only 2.5% of people know that where our disposed plastic goes off. Our plastic goes into the landfills, Oceans, Seas or shipped to far far away where people have less income. These people come through harmful and noxious diseases.

To stop plastic waste we can use cloths glass bottles and make sure that you are getting biodegradable plastics

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