Negligence by discarded plastic water bottles, especially plastic, fishing gear and plastic bags, people are unknowingly causing the deaths of millions of mammals, fish, birds and reptiles each year. We defile the face of the earth with plastic waste.
Since the invention of plastic earlier this century, has become a popular material in a variety of unique and innovative applications. Plastic is used to make, or wrap-around, many of the items we buy or use. TheProblem arises when we no longer want these products and how we dispose of them, especially the disposable plastic material used in wrapping or packaging. Plastic is handy, lightweight and easily discarded. Discarded too easily.
Plastics are not themselves the problem. This is useful material that can be produced with relatively little damage to the environment. The problem is the excessive use of plastic in a time applications, together with available negligent.
Look aroundThem. Plastic bags can easily be seen hanging from tree branches flying on windy days, somewhere between herbs and variable flows. They clog the drains causing widespread water and sewer overflow and the breeding ground for germs and bacteria that cause disease.
Plastics are used because they are easy and inexpensive, strong and durable. Unfortunately these same useful properties make plastic a huge problem of pollution. Lower quality and lowThe cost means plastic is readily discarded. Plastics take 300 years to degrade a photo. Duration plastic ensures its survival in the environment for long periods as they cause serious damage. Since the plastic does not decompose easily, and requires high energy to break a ultraviolet light, the volume of plastic waste in the oceans of the world is constantly growing. Plastic is now present in almost all oceans and rivers of the world, even in the most remote and onceunchanged.
American oceanographer Charles Moore says that the amount of plastic pollution in oceans is so large that it is beyond cleaning. 'Cemetery' a toxic plastic double the size of Texas swirls in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. His team has found that the water contained about 40 parts plastic for every part of plankton, an increase of five times increase in the amount of plastic between 1997 and 2007.
Each year about 500 billion plastic bagsare in use around the world. This is an unreasonable amount of waste, so that more than one million bags per minute and its effects are used on the planet is devastating. Plastic bags are only part of the problem. America alone, yearly produces over 800,000 tons of plastic bottle pollution. Worldwide our precious planet is defaced and poisoned with more than 100 million tons of plastic pollution annually.
According to the California Costal Commission, over 80% of the waste withinWatercourses, most of them are made of plastic, takes place in the country, from the boats.
Plastic affects marine life in a deadly tangle creatures and consume.
Turtles are particularly devastated by pollution plastic. All seven species of turtles in the world are already endangered or threatened for a number of reasons. Turtles caught in fishing nets, plastic, and many sea turtles were found dead with plastic garbage bags in their stomachs. StudyShow turtles mistake these floating semi-transparent bags for jellyfish and eat them. The turtles die an inhumane death from choking or can not eat. A turtle found dead off the coast of Hawaii has found that more than 1000 pieces of plastic in its stomach including stringy part of a comb, a toy truck wheel and are made of nylon rope.
There is great concern about the ecological impact of plastic trash on all marine mammals. These elegant creatures are already under the threat of aNumber of other reasons: for example, seal and whale populations have been decimated by unregulated hunting. A recent study showed that more than 100,000 marine mammals die needlessly each year from the deadly effects of plastic pollution.
Worldwide, over 100 species of birds are known to absorb particles of plastic. This includes 36 species found off the coast of South Africa. A recent study of blue petrel young animals has resulted in remote Marion Island South Africa that 90% of chicks examinedwere made of plastic in their digestive systems, apparently fed to them accidentally by their parents. South Africa are among the seabirds most affected in the world. Plastics remain in the stomach of birds that prevent the digestion and causing starvation.
Scientific studies are not conclusive as to consume as plastic birds and fish, but scientists agree that plastic is probably harmful to people at sea. Plastic is better understood toxic materials thanMercury.
Plastic acts like a sponge in contact with poisons such as PCBs, concentrating on a level that millions of times more than in seawater.
They are ingredients in plastics, has been linked to cancer and reproductive abnormalities. Bisphenol A, found in plastic bottles, has shown to produce cancer in lab rats to stop hormones and it is with diabetes and obesity.
The scientists also expressed concern that the massive swirls of floating plasticcould contribute to global warming by creating a canopy dense shadow that makes it difficult for plankton to grow.
Let's look at a few different ways where "Together we can make a difference" look.
The crisis of plastic pollution demands urgent study and action. Companies should be encouraged to reduce the amount of plastic packaging and re-cycle.
Film and plastic bags should be required to make a suggestion about the dangers of plastic pollutionBuyers should be encouraged to use environmentally friendly shopping bags of organic, natural materials or recycled plastic fibers. To say that our legislators. Only aggravate the situation further. We must act now!
If a tax imposed on plastic bags in Ireland, the use has decreased by 90 percent. Many other countries have already banned the use of plastic bags with a significant impact. America needs to follow their example.
Supporting recycling programs and the promotion of environmental awarenessYour community. Being pro-active authorities concerned prior to rethink and change consumer attitudes.
Buy products that are less plastic packaging and management of inventory information, why you are doing. We can talk out loud when we talk with our "dollar".
Select chipped to tap or carbon filtered water from a glass, reusable containers. If you buy plastic bottles to dispose of the container properly. Recycle.
With increasing environmentalConsciousness, it became obvious that there is more we can do to create a sustainable society. If each of us to take some steps to create a small few different possibilities and consider our impact on the planet, could be a way to bring the world back to its original beauty and resources.
