Seven things about plastic that will kill all people in the Earth

News24xx.com -  Plastic is versatile thing, pliable, durable, cheap to produce and ubiquitous- well. But the plastic is a bane too. 

From cell phones to laptops, from water bottles to the food plates, everything is made of plastic. When a person felt boring with it, it’s thrown. But once thrown, it remains there forever polluting our surroundings because plastic never gets decomposed. Not even after thousand years. 

The plasticis a substance that invented in 1950 to make our life easier. But now, the existence of plastic pollution has contaminated everything without which, humans can’t survive.

Plastic has poisoned every shred of nature around us. The oceans, rivers, ponds, land or even the very air we breathe.

Here are some facts about plastic :

1. Plastic produced yearly outweighs the entire humanity
Since the 1950s 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic has been produced across the world and nearly half of the plastic has been produced post-2000.

2. Only 9 per cent plastics get recycled, rest is thrown
This answers why most of the oceans are now filled with plastic garbage polluting and killing the marine life. Some 18 billion pounds of plastic is thrown into the oceans across the world and biggest of the patch of plastic in the ocean is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Pacific Ocean is a place for garbage has got collected due to the current of water and it roughly has 79,000 tonnes of plastic garbage. 

Discovered in 1997, the patch is spanned in 617, 673 sq miles which the twice the size of France and roughly contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.  

Plastic recycling rates are highest in Europe at 30 per cent. In China is 25 per cent. And the United States recycles just 9 per cent of its plastic trash.

3. China produces maximum plastic 
Half the world’s plastics are made in Asia. The lion’s share of that 29 per cent is made in China, home to 18 per cent of the world’s population. The rest of the Asian countries produce 21 percent of the plastic. The nations in North America Free Trade Agreement including the US produce around 18 per cent of the plastic whereas Europe produces around  10 per cent. 

4. The US uses the most of plastic
The average annual plastic bag usage in the US is highest. A whopping of 100 billion plastic bags are used by Americans every year. If it tied together, it would reach around the Earth’s equator 773 times. 

5. A million plastic bottles  are bought every minute
In order to make our lives a bit more comfortable, humanity is forsaken our future. The world buys a million plastic bottle carrying water, soft drinks, and what not and this number will top half a trillion by 2021.

6. Eight per cent of world’s oil is used for manufacture plastic
Oil has arguably resulted in several wars across the world, but ol all is not used to move vehicles. In industries, nearly 8 per cent of this oil is used to create plastic yearly which will further suffocate earth and push it further towards being lifeless. 

7. Oceans have more plastic particles than milky way has stars
Roughly 8 million metric ton of plastic is dumped into oceans across the world which makes it containing more plastic particles than the number of stars in galaxy milky way.

 

 

 

 

 

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