World Plastic Disaster: Addressing as a Global Issue

World Plastic
Disaster
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Addressing as a Global Issue
• Plastic disposal is a critical environmental issue
for drastic environmental pollutions it cause.
• Social Issue: Plastic Pollution adversely affecting
Societal development, as food and living of
middle class, rural communities, and animals who
rely on seafood and ocean water, facing critical
risks due to oceans plastic pollution (Xing, 2009).
• Political Issue: globally nations and countries
need to adopt plastic ban.

Plastic Utility
• Plastic is an organic polymer, having long
carbon molecular chain
• Plastic is versatile, hygienic, flexible, long
durable, and lightweight
• Types of plastics : Polystyrene, Polyvinyl
Chloride, Polyethylene Terephthalate and
Polyethylene (Xing, 2009).
• Versatile uses : Domestic, Packaging,
Protection, Hospitals, air craft industry and
engineering

Evil side of Plastic
• By nature plastic is non-biodegradable,
contain hydrocarbon molecules gain from
refining of oil and natural gas.
• It can move into stomachs, lungs and blood of
human easily in form of micro-plastics
particles.
• It is composed of toxic chemical &
carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and having
hormone-disruptive chemicals (Xing, 2009).
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