It is difficult to escape from using many type of plastic and plastic it is difficult to recycle. The amount is already at an alarming stage.
1. The use of plastic the longer the more, you know. On average every person in America and Europe uses about 100 kg of plastic per year. While in Asia the average person uses about 20 kg per year. This number is expected to grow to 140 kg per person by 2015.
2. Plastics become one of the pollution and threats to marine ecosystems. Many sea animals swallow plastic debris for thinking it's food. Albatrose often thinks plastic is a squid. While the turtles often swallow the plastic because they think it's a jellyfish. Due to swallowing of plastic they die of plastic clogging in the digestive tract. Green Peace says about 267 marine animals die of digestion, and 90% from swallowing plastic debris.
3. Among the production of plastic, plastic bags that contribute the most damage to the environment. Not only because he made garbage on land but also caused flooding as it often clogs up in plumbing and disposal.
4. In addition to plastic bags, plastic beverage bottles also contribute the most waste, you know. On average each person uses about 168 plastic bottles each year. Everyday 100 million plastic bottles are used all over the world. About 86% of the plastic bottles are still not recycled and there are about 1500 bottles ending in the ocean every second!
5. There's no better way than to replace a plastic bag with a cloth bag. The fastest cloth bag will be broken for 6 weeks. This means we have reduced the use of 24 plastic bags, 288 pieces a year and about 22,176 of the average human life. Some countries already impose taxes for the use of plastic bags. It was started by Ireland in 2002. In this way they have reduced the use of plastic bags as much as 90%.
6. The process of making plastic bottles is also very spent energy. To make a plastic bottle spend 3-5 liters of water. Within a year the plastic bottle factory has already dumped about 2,500,000 tons of CO2. Imagine, yes, how much air pollution has been generated? So instead of buying a drink from plastic bottles, we bring aja own drink bottle or tumbler from home.
7. Plastic bottles are also harmful to health. The basic ingredients of a plastic bottle are bisphenol-A or BPA. BPA is also often used to make plastic containers for food packaging. When the plastic is repeatedly washed and exposed to heat, this material will describe toxins that are harmful to the body, especially hormone balance. Some countries now prohibit the use of BPA-containing materials for food or bottle packaging. Check that our drink bottle is already BPA-free. And certainly more secure is not to use plastic bottles.
8. Plastics are very dangerous waste, even when they are recycled. When recycled, the toxicity of its petro-polymers enters the soil and water. In the long run, these toxins enter in small particles and participate in the path of the human food chain. Baseball directly we swallow plastic too, right?
9. So much garbage, especially plastic waste floating in the ocean, finally emerged Pacific trash vortex or also known as the great pacific garbage patch. It is a collection of garbage that forms a kind of small islands in the Pacific Ocean. The number is several and each collection consists of floating garbage. Again, the most waste is plastic waste. The size of each 'island' of junk is different. Its size ranges from 700,000 kilo square meters to 15,000,000 kilo square meters. There are some who estimate that the extent of joining, being twice the size of the United States. It is scary!
From now on, let's think twice before using plastic.
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