Impact of Plastic on Environment

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IMPACT OF PLASTIC
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Plastic pollution is the gathering of plastic products, such as the bottle and bags.
These plastic products affect the environment adversely such as the wildlife, humans, and
home Plastics that act as contaminants are characterized into micro-, meson-, or macro debris,
based on size, Plastic debris is a worldwide threat to marine environments as well.(Martins,
& Sobral, 2011). According to a study done in 2018 it was seen that 380 million tons of
plastic is produced worldwide each year (Andrady, 2011). From the 1950s up to 2018, around
6.3 billion tons of plastic has been created worldwide, out of which estimated 9% is reused
and another 12% has been burned. The scope of this essay is to know the impact of plastic
products on wildlife, human life and environment and how to save the environment from
plastic products.
Plastic waste is very harmful; it harms the environment, wildlife and people. Plastic
waste is one of the main environmental concerns and large amount of waste is inevitable in
the world we live in (Resetar, Am, Marinescu, Daescu, 2015). The amount of garbage
increase with the amount of population and the disposable plastic products like the bottles of
water, cans of soda and other plastic products. All of these things effect the normal
environment and harms the plants and animals (Meeker, 2018) Plastic has toxic contaminants
that can root water land, and air pollution. It can proceed around thousands of years to break
down or damage plastic from the atmosphere (Harrison & Hester, 2019).
Plastic products also lead to groundwater pollution. Water conservation is one of the
biggest concerns in places like California and India but one of the biggest dangers to the
water of the world is due to plastic waste as the groundwater is susceptible to the leaking
toxins of the environment. Most of the pollution and litter that affects the world contains
plastic and as a result it affects the marine species and can also be a problem to those who eat
marine life for nutrients.

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Another way through which plastic effects the environment is that it pollutes the
lands, when the plastic is dumped in landfills and as a result it interrelates with the water
from hazardous chemicals, when these chemicals dribble underground they destroy the water
and its quality. Another main issue is that Plastic is a material that does not decompose, it
releases unbelievable quantity of toxins in the air, the consistent and everyday trash is also
one of the main reasons behind plastic pollution., disposable water bottles, Milk cartons with
plastic linings, soaps with small plastic beads, and other products end up in the environment
or in dumps where they can distress the nearby wildlife and groundwater (Li, Tse, & Fok,
2016).
The cost-effective fishing nets is one more main issue, fishing is essential for the
economy and the supply of food in various areas and the nets are mainly made through
plastics and thus when the nets are dumped in marine they leak a lot of toxins, they
sometimes ever break and get los which add various more pollutants to the water. (Possatto,
Barletta, Costa, do Sul, & Dantas, 2011). There are various impacts of plastic products or
plastic pollution. One of the main impacts is on the water or marine species and as a result it
can also indignant the economy and the supply of food groups that depend on fishing. Plastic
can indignant various creatures like plankton, on which the bigger animals depend on for the
food (Verma Vinoda, Papireddy, & Gowda, 2016).
Australia is one such country which is affected highly by plastic pollution. 85% of the
marine life is affected by plastic (Williams, & Wikström, 2011). Marine animals choke on
plastic bags and also get entangled because of plastic and sometime marine animals also
consume plastic which leads to their death (Wilcox, Van Sebille, & Hardesty, 2015). Apart
from this 95% of the plastic packaging is discarded after the single use in Australia. These
entire thing Impact the environment.