Thinking about Plastic

In a blog post titled “Thinking about plastic…,” the writer mpshawn2 provides many important details about the usefulness of plastic.

Plastic is commonly used as a tool to enclose useful things, such as, items that are bought from specialty stores or supermarkets. There is a great tragedy here though, usually the items that are contained inside plastic casings or containers are considered to be worth protecting for the customer whether it’s for health and safety concerns or to protect the product’s integrity. The tragedy is that once the item is purchased its plastic protector is reduced to nothing more than a useless after thought and directed to the rubbish bin. With luck it may even be recycled, but looking at the figures it has less than a 9% chance of becoming something else through recycling, a 16% chance of becoming fuel, or a whopping 73% likelihood of ending up in a land fill.

https://thebiologyenthusiast.com/2019/03/25/thinking-about-plastic/

This article is worth reading because it recognizes the significance of plastic. The author explains why it is important to our life, and how plastic has become a significant part of our lives. However, they recognizes the way that humans treat it is horrible to our environment. He explains that plastic has a 73% likelihood of ending up in a land fill, and is less likely to be recycled. By realizing this, we must start to do more to reduce the amount that end up in land fills, and spend thousands of years decomposing. We must realize our impact on the earth! Lets create a cleaner future by doing more to recycle and reduce the amount of plastic we use daily! Check out the above blog post here!

-Trinity