Plastics impacts in the world
With the planet plunging into a sea of hydrocarbons, the impacts of plastic are becoming evident. The problem of plastic is found in the capacity to recycle the waste, since the life of a plastic bag, for example, is a few minutes, until they are discarded in dumps and later in the oceans, where they degrade the local ecosystem for hundreds of years .
Plastic Islands
Deaths in the local ecosystem
Microplastic
Pollution
Plastic is made from petroleum, which through chemical processes that transforms it into resin, which will be modified to become products that we live with daily. The entire plastic generation system is linked to high levels of pollution, including a high level of Co2.
Microplastic / Environment
When plastic is found in the oceans, it fragments in the form of thousands of plastic particles that interfere in the local food chain, since the micro plastic appears to serve as food for animals, thus causing:
Deaths
Alteration of the Reproductive Cycle
Harm to the Local Ecosystem
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Social / Visual Impacts
In low-developed countries the social impact is notable. Garbage clogs manholes and ditches, which causes flooding and leaves familiesdesolate.
The number of particles in the seas is greater than that of stars in our galaxy
Only 9% of all waste produced annually is recycled
The human being is eating about 1 plastic credit card per week
Plastic is responsible for the deaths of 100,000 marine animals every year
Of the nearly 9 billion tonnes already produced of polymers:
Only 600 million tons were recycled
800 million went to incineration - A process that throws tons of heavy metals into the atmosphere in a gaseous state that moments later fall back into the environment in a solid state, which contaminates sheets water , plants and animals.
4.9 Billion tonnes accumulate in landfills and in nature