Plastic pollution
Litter On Land
Litter is not a good thing for the environment, especially when it is close to nature. If you see litter on the ground, please do not hesitate to pick it up. Planning a day with your friends or family to pick up trash around your neighborhood or community can make an impact on the environment and people around you. If you pick up the trash, other people in your community see unpolluted areas and don't litter. When trash gets thrown away, overtime it could sink into the ground and harmful chemicals can seep into the dirt or soil. Overall, it is not good to litter.
One Solution to Litter on Land
Litter In The Ocean
Litter is not good when it is in the ocean. If you think about it, you are hurting mankind and wildlife when you litter in the ocean.
The litter gets thrown into the sea
It is eaten by ocean and marine animals
We, as in humans, use the water to make liquid to drink with bits of trash in it. We also eat the ocean animals that swallow the plastic.
Jaden Smith (Litter In The Ocean)
Jaden Smith helped save human kind by making the company Just Water. As you guessed, this water is just water. He has invented a special kind of filter that filters the trash from the ocean out.
The Problem with Plastic Bags
The problem with plastic bags is that they can not break down naturally. That means plastic bags pile up into a big hill. Over time there is a chance that half of the planet will be trashed with... well... trash. Eventually we could not have a home on earth. It takes 700 years for a plastic bag to just start decomposing. Once the plastic bag is done, the chemicals are still in the ground, ready to seep chemicals into any plants above it.
One Solution to Plastic Bags
Some companys such as earthnest have figured out a solution to plastic bags. These bags are plastic free, stronger and more affordable than plastic bags, can be recycled with paper, and can dissolve at <80 degrees C. For more information go to https://earthnest.life/biobags/. These bio degradable bags are cheaper, or at least around the same price, as the common plastic bags. They also are Eco friendly. Another solution you can use is reusable bags.
Plastic Facts
Copied from Earthnest.com
160,000 plastic bags are used globally every second!
5 trillion plastic bags are produced yearly. Side by side, they can encircle the world 7 times.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a floating landfill of garbage in the Pacific twice the size of Texas, is mostly composed of plastic.
In California 2008, a sperm whale was found beached due to 22 kilos of plastic found in its stomach.
Plastic will only start degrading after 700 years and will only fully degrade in 1000 years.
All the plastic that has ever been produced has not degraded yet.
Plastic bags remain toxic even after it breaks down. It doesn’t biodegrade, it photo-degrades. After it degrades, it breaks down into smaller toxic bits of itself – and bleeds and contaminates the environment.
An average family will use 60 plastic bags on four visits to the supermarket.
Only 1 to 3% of plastic bags are recycled worldwide.
Plastic bags were introduced to supermarkets in 1977.
In the North Pacific Ocean, there is 6x more plastic debris than plankton.
Plastic bags are produced using petroleum, natural gas & other chemicals. Its production is toxic to the environment.
