Cause and Effect of Plastic Pollution and Circular Economy

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................4
Cause and Effect of plastic pollution.......................................................................................................4
Discuss Circular economy.......................................................................................................................6
Characteristics from the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment report..........................................8
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Plastic pollution has become one of the major concerns as it directly affect the
environment both at micro and macro level. The object as well as particles of plastic are non
biodegradable in nature due to which it affect the land wildlife, marine life and mainly human
being. Inadequate spaces to dump the plastic bottles, bags and object have become threat for
sustainable environment (Faure and et. al., 2015). As plastic releases the harmful chemicals due
to which it has affected the quality of groundwater, surrounded soil which is the part of
ecosystem of the world. Currently, plastic pollution has become the biggest threat for the oceans
caused due to inadequate drainage system, decomposition method as well as even industries
disposes their waste near the oceans which is pathetic situation for whole planet. For the better
understanding of report Tupperware company has been selected which is one of the well known
companies that have significantly signed the new plastic economic Global commitment in 2019.
It is the American multinational company that focuses to produce plastic storage containers for
household products. It basically believes in the reuse as well as refill scheme that has somewhere
minimized the issue of plastic pollution.
MAIN BODY
Cause and Effect of plastic pollution
Although plastics are harmful for the nature but being versatile it requires less energy in
comparison to the other alterative options like glass or metal. Along with that it is cost effective
due to which various companies’ use it is a raw material while carrying out manufacturing of
diverse material. Plastics area widely used in the healthcare due to the versatile characteristics
polymers are used in diverse healthcare applications like disposable syringes, joint replacements
and other sterile packaging is made from the medical instruments (Avery-Gomm and et. al.,
2012). Issue is not only the use of issue as it is used in the medical industry for the wellbeing of
industry but its application needs to be kept limited and methods to be used to decompose the
waste plastics effectively. Certain other industries like fashion and retail industry earlier used
plastic shopping bags but now with the increase in awareness it has been replaced by paper bags.
Along with that paper packaging for the food products is promoted to preserve the lives of the

human being. Increased dependency on the plastics is used as a raw material that has affected the
manufacturing process. In relation to the Tupperware company believe in reusability of the raw
material due to which it offer lifetime warranty for its product. The company stands out from
other companies that too manufacture plastic containers for the household products as most of
eth plastics are not recycled after its usage (Over 400 organizations have signed the New Plastics
Economy Global Commitment, 2019). But Tupperware company has become one of the most
popular brands that involve various variants like preparing plastic bottles, storage box, lunch box
and outdoor container that can be repetitively used for over and over many years. Even if the
customer find problem they can replace the products that has mitigated the wastage of plastics,
so as the company offer supreme quality of products due to which it has led to the become to
become one of the largest manufacturing company that serve global market effectively. Wastage
of plastic is the main cause of pollution that has optimally controlled by the Tupperware
company because they serve quality product due to which even customer use it for various year
Immense use of plastic has become the pressure for environment concern leading to
negative effect of plastic pollution on planet. As the production of the plastic products are
rapidly increasing due to high demand in the market which probability leads to the problem of
mass landfill due to inadequate garbage system that remain inefficient in effectively
decomposing for recycling the discarded plastics. Marine plastic has become one of the disasters
because that has affected the lives of the aquatic animal. Approximately 8 million tons of plastic
is disposed into the ocean that affects the quality of the water as well as become a threatening
situation for water bodies (Marine plastics, 2018). Marine species ingest plastic debris which
finally leads to the serious injuries as well as death. Along with that this act as an undesirable
condition for food safety as well as quality because consumption of sea food can too affect the
human health. Thus, methods adopted by new plastic economic Global commitment companies
like Graham packaging, Tupperware brand and Keurig Dr Pepper perform recycling as well as
reuse of the plastic product that support innovation in terms to develop new offerings by
effectively replacing single use plastics (Chae and An, 2018). Moreover, plastic leads to the
harmful chemical as well as toxics that adversely affect the life of Public Health by causing
several problem like visionary failure, respiratory problems, dizziness, irritation in the eyes, skin
diseases birth effect, cardiovascular problem and so on. This depict that their exist ‘n’ number of
problem by increasing the dependency of human being on plastics which led to the increase