Plastic Menace

We are surrounded by plastic in our daily lives. Plastic water bottles, disposable cups, plastic straws are commonly used in our homes, offices, and restaurants. Whenever we go out shopping, either for grocery or branded clothes, we always come back with plastic bags in our hand. Plastic is light and durable, thus, plastic bottles and plastic bags are easy to carry. FMCG companies use plastic bottles to sell products like mineral drinking water, aerated soft drinks, juices, syrups, milk, cooking oil, and much more. These plastic bottles can be easily transported, which makes them easy to distribute for a manufacturer. Because of this, plastic bottles are widely used around the world. Plastic is nonbiodegradable. Any product made from plastic is difficult to recycle. They take more than 1000 years to decompose into the natural environment. The plastic water bottles environmental impact can be seen on our earth and water bodies. The rivers, seas, and oceans are facing extrem...

Plastic bottles are commonly used to package mineral drinking water, aerated drinks, juices, sodas and other similar products. They are lightweight and highly durable. They are easy to carry or transport liquids making it a popular packaging choice. The most common type of plastic bottle we use in our daily life is the PET bottles. They can be found by the dozens at our homes and the workplace. They are commonly used to store water, soft drinks, milk, cooking oil, medicine, and much more. While using plastic bottles may be a common thing in our daily lives, it is not good for the environment. Plastic is a nonbiodegradable material. Plastic products are difficult to recycle. A single plastic bottle takes more than 1000 years to decompose. When they are recycled, the plastic is actually broken down into smaller plastic particles. When the plastic bottles end up in landfills, these smaller plastic particles may leak through the soil and enter our rivers and seas. This leads to water...

Plastic bottles are used widely in our homes to store drinking water, aerated drinks, juices, sodas, milk, and more liquids. The most common type of plastic bottles manufactured is PET bottles, which require huge amounts of fossil fuels to produce. Single-use plastic water bottles are used to package mineral drinking water. Statistics reveal that more than 50 billion plastic water bottles are sold worldwide in a year. The plastic water bottles environmental impact of manufacturing these many bottles is very damaging. The production of plastic water bottles requires up to 17 million barrels of oil each year. This much quantity of oil is enough to fuel up to one million cars for an entire year. Additionally, it takes three times the volume of water to manufacture one bottle of water than it does to fill it. Because of the chemical process of manufacturing, the water cannot be used. Valuable and limited resources of the earth’s water and fossil fuel get wasted in the manufacturing o...

Every year, more than 50 billion plastic water bottles are sold worldwide. Of these, only 23% of the bottles are picked up for the recycling process. This means that more than 38 billion plastic bottles end up in landfills around the globe. This generates a huge amount of plastic waste. Plastic bottles are not bio-degradable. The plastic bottle environmental impact is immense. A single water bottle takes more than 1000 years to decompose naturally. It remains on this planet for hundreds of years and leaves a lasting impact on our plant and animal life, and water bodies. Water bottle pollution is a serious environmental concern. Most of the water bottles used are not recycled properly. The discarded plastic bottles are washed away from the shore and end up in our rivers and oceans. Plastic bottle caps are not recyclable and often end up at the bottom of the ocean. Environmentalists say that very soon there will be more quantities of plastic in the oceans than fishes. Th...

Plastic bottles are such kind of goons who are responsible for the ocean’s most pressing environmental problems. We do understand that around the world there are many places where these plastic bottles are the only medium of transporting water and here one bottle is reused countless times. But this is not considered as the actual cause of pollution the major issue is when 6 packaged plastic bottles are bought only one gets reused and the rest 5 of them are being thrown in the oceans or end up in landfills. Plastics take a lifetime to decompose, but within this lifetime it causes massive destruction and menace to the environment and its living beings. In our daily lives, everyone uses plastic materials because we all think that these small little things have made our lives much simpler than ever, but we are not at all aware that these little things especially the plastic bottles are creating quite a mess in the world and causing a menace all over. There are millions of effects of ...

According to a 2017 news report in The Guardian, the annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by the year 2021. It also said that around the world, a million plastic bottles are bought in one minute. These are scary numbers. With such huge amount of plastic bottles being used, it is very difficult to recycle and reuse each of these bottles. As a result, most plastic bottles end up in landfills or in the ocean. Environmentalists say that very soon, the ocean is going to have more plastic than fishes. Being responsible citizens living on this beautiful planet, it is our duty to reduce plastic bottle pollution wherever we can. One easy way to keep plastic bottle pollution in check is to reduce their usage in our daily lives. It is important to create awareness of plastic bottle effects among today’s generation. If more people know about their harmful effects on the environment, it can be hoped that more people will start reducing the use of plastics in their...