EFFECT OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

The Royal Society, through the latest issue of its journal Philosophical Transactions, put the warning about the negative effects on the environment and human health, unsustainable consumption of plastics in our society today. Sample of a button, the cover illustrated with a photograph of Rebecca Hosking, a plastic sample taken from the stomach of a dead Laysan albatross, found on the shores of Hawaii.

EFFECT OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

Plastics have been produced in mass from about 50 years and have transformed our daily lives. Approximately 8% of world oil production is used to make plastics and is likely to plastic production will exceed 300 million tons annually in 2010

EFFECT OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

The plastics have the potential to help reduce our footprint on the planet, but evidence of emission in this issue demonstrates that our current use and disposal of plastics is not sustainable, it is harmful to wildlife and potentially harmful to humans human

EFFECT OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

There are solutions, including changes in the production, use and recycling, but these measures will succeed only combined actions of individuals, industry and government

EFFECT OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

. There is some urgency for action in both the production of plastics is growing at around 9% annually. It is likely that the amount of plastic produced in the first decade of this century approaches the quantity produced during the entire preceding century.

EFFECT OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

. There is some urgency for action in both the production of plastics is growing at around 9% annually. It is likely that the amount of plastic produced in the first decade of this century approaches the quantity produced during the entire preceding century.