What Negative and Positive effects does plastic have on the environment?

How does plastic effects the environment?

• Answer:

  Plastic causes serious damage to environment both during its production and disposal. It is a non-biodegradable material composed of toxic chemicals it pollutes not only ecosystems but human health. Plastic affects human health for they may have chemical such as vinyl chloride and are benzene known that breathing the noxious fumes that hurt cells in the lung lining, increasing the risk of emphysema and cancer. If plastic gets into the environment it is a hazard to all life living in the water environment and land. Fish, birds, marine mammals, reptiles, and other animals can become entangled in discarded plastics and sustain injuries from ingesting plastics. Lost nets go on to do what they were planned to do catch living animals but now they catch them accidentally, a process called "ghost fishing." During the production of plastic are synthetic chemicals like ethylene oxide, benzene and xylenes. . The resins in the plastic are flammable and have added considerably to several accidents worldwide. Plastic does not undergo bacterial decomposition, disposing in land fills would preserve the chemicals forever. If you burn, plastic it releases a poisonous chemical into the air, including dioxin, a deadly toxin. Should the land fills leak our water, oceans rivers and streams supply gets poisoned Recycling plastic degrades in quality and necessitates the production of more new plastic to make the original product.