Plastic is a great invention of mankind, but also more common in people's daily lives, it is small to food packaging, large to building materials, etc., since the invention of plastic, to the masses of people's daily life has brought great convenience, but at the same time, plastic pollution is increasingly serious. Nowadays, plastic products can be found everywhere in life, these plastic products penetrate into our lives, more harmful to our health. So these harms of plastic pollution you understand?
Encroachment of land
Plastic waste in the natural world to stay a long time, generally up to 200-400 years, some up to 500 years.
Pollute the air
Plastic waste incineration, will produce harmful gases, pollution of the atmosphere. Plastic garbage particles will fly with the wind.
Pollution of water
Plastic bottles, lunch boxes, plastic bags and bread paper floating on the surface of river and sea water not only cause environmental pollution, but also if the animals accidentally eat the white trash will hurt their health, and even starve to death because they can not be digested in the digestive tract.
Fire Hazard
Almost all white garbage is combustible and produces methane and other combustible gases in the process of natural stacking, which can easily cause fire accidents in case of open fire or spontaneous combustion, often resulting in significant losses.
Ecological environment
Waste plastic packaging into the environment, due to its difficult to degrade, resulting in long-term, deep-seated ecological problems. First of all, waste plastic packaging mixed in the soil, affecting the crops to absorb nutrients and water, will lead to crop yield reduction; mixed into the domestic waste in the waste plastic packaging is difficult to deal with: landfill disposal will occupy the land for a long time, mixed with plastic domestic waste is not suitable for composting, sorting out of the waste plastics can not guarantee the quality of the waste plastics and difficult to be recycled; if the livestock ate plastic film, it will cause livestock's digestive tract diseases, or even death. If livestock eat plastic film, it will cause digestive diseases and even death.
The impact of plastic pollution has spread all over the world, and even remote Antarctica cannot be spared. Some experts have made the comment that “eating seafood is the same as eating plastic”, which some people consider alarmist, but in fact scientists have confirmed that the human body contains plastic particles. Plastic pollution has long been into the food chain, began to jeopardize human health, but most of us are still in the dark, think very fearful.
