What would happen if there could be no plastic in the
world the life could be somehow difficult.There are a lot of plastic materials
that human kind use in day to day activities.The most commonly used are
utensils e.g plates,cups that are used at home.All over the world
plastic appears in almost every house hold.What if everything that is
used as plastic is a metal .The life could be too expensive to live
in.Plastic do not decay like other material Most
plastic is manufactured from petroleum the end product of a few
million years of natural decay of
once-living organisms. Petroleum's main components come from lipids that were
first assembled long ago in those organisms' cells. So the question is, if
petroleum-derived plastic comes from bio-material why doesn't it
biodegrade?Food for thought .
A crucial manufacturing step turns petroleum into a
material unrecognized by the organisms that normally break organic matter
down.Most plastics are derived from propylene, a simple chemical component of
petroleum. When heated up in the presence of a catalyst, individual chemical
units monomers of propylene link together by forming extremely strong
carbon-carbon bonds with each other. This results in polymers long chains of
monomers called polypropylene."Nature doesn't make things like that,"
said Kenneth Peters, an organic geochemist at Stanford University, "so
organisms have never seen that before."
The organisms that decompose organic matter the ones
that start turning your apple brown the instant you cut it open "have
evolved over billions of years to attack certain types of bonds that are common
in nature," Peters told Life's Little Mysteries.
Plastic recycling is a process of
recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material
into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their
original state. Since plastic is not normally biodegradable,
recycling it is part of global efforts to reduce plastic in the waste stream,
especially the approximately eight million metric tonnes of waste plastic that
enter the earth's ocean every year.This helps to reduce the high rates of plastic
pollution.
Considering we are in 21st century everything is like
plastic.There are millions and millions of hand set or mobile phone,Dvd
players,Computers and many more electronic that are made using plastics.The
plastic are of bigger help.
Big question is :technology changes very fast and
each an every day plastic is been disposed.Today we are talking about
iphone,like 3 years ago technology was different,Where did the old phone waste
materials go.They are polluting our environments.
There a lot of paper bags,waste plastic like spoiled
utensils that are lying all over.These is environment pollution.sometimes back
government of Kenya had banned the manufacturing and selling of plastic paper
bags,but it did not bear fruits.
We need a better methods of reducing the
disposal of plastics.
How we can reduce the usage of plastic is difficult
the only solution is to recycle the plastics.
My opinion on these is that One method of
encouraging and helping on recycling of these plastic would be :-
- Developing many a
recycling companies in the world.
- Reducing the production of plastic.
- Encouraging the recycling companies by been given
more funds,subsides and reduction of tax by government.
- Coco cola company wash there glass bottles,why
can't they also implement it also on the plastic bottles.
- Opening up ready market for buying the disposed
plastics materials like bottles,paper bags these may create employment to
some individual and keep the environment clean.
- try and use other materials for packaging and
also find another local ready material that is cheap and that can decay
easily.
We need
companies investing in the area of recycling plastics.Many plastics are
imported from outside country.Why can't we have
many investors opening up this firms in the country.The following are
the steps of recycling plastics from plastic
recycle.
There are many companies which are coming
up.That are helping in recycling of the plastic some of these companies are
suppose to be given more fund to help in improving our environment.Some of
these compani
es are:-
To list them but a few but they are suppose to be many
in order to help us keep environment clean.
Scientist
have proven that plastic are the one cause of deadly disease called
cancer.The quicker we get the alternative to the plastic the better.
