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Dilemma of Plastic Waste

Plastic, in all forms, straws, bottles, packaging, bags, etc- are all chocking our planet We must find ways to reduce and eventually eliminate single-use plastic products.

-Governor Jerry Brown

The recent epoch of contemporary lifestyle is laden with a myriad of social, environmental, economic, and health issues plastic usage is the most prevalent among all. Regardless of all the associated pros with the material, the entire planet is acknowledging the disasters interlinked with plastic. In order to save the world from piles of plastic waste, it is imperative to observe preventive measures to reduce plastic waste. Plastic waste is detrimental for the environment the creation and disposal of plastic entice perils of pollution and is a considerable burden on the economy.

Managing plastic waste plays an integral role in the perceived protection of nature and the environment on all earthy, atmosphere, and ocean levels. Production and usage of plastic and reducing its waste comprised of several harmful activities that are disturbing the balance of Mother Nature at a steady pace. According to the studies, the exacerbated usage of plastic is affecting marine life to a great extent, and about 90 of ocean litter is comprised of plastic that cannot be recycled and end up in the sea through drains and other discarding channels. Consequently, the tsunami of plastic material in the ocean kills and hurts the water creatures, and regularly hundreds of little and large sea animals get killed because of trapping, gulping, suffocating, starving, or strangling by human-made plastic material (Her Planet Earth, 2019). Dolphins, whales, sharks, and turtles are the most prominent victims of such environmental miseries. According to a cautious estimation of Recycling Technologies (2019), by the year 2050, the oceans will be infused with a tonne of plastic for every tonne of fish. The famous actor of Aquaman, Jason Momoa is leading an environmental movement and contends that the marine and ocean life is experiencing an emergency state. Momoa further explicates that entire marine ecosystems are vanishing with the warming of the seas, and as the waste of our world empties into our waters, we face the devastating crisis of plastic pollution (Barr, 2019).

Reducing the beast of plastic waste is also significant for mitigating the hazardous impacts of global warming that could slowly deteriorate the world. In this context, the most effective way to reduce plastic waste is to stop producing it altogether because whenever plastics are disposed of through combustion, the greenhouse gas emission reaches its peak. Throughout such practices, a sizeable quantity of nitrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide and sulfur permeate in the air and partake in the adversaries of global warming and climatic changes (Engels, 2015). In such situations, it is preferable to employ recycling or up-cycling options to reduce plastic waste because recycling combustion requirements are equal to zero, and the waste could be transformed into something reusable without impacting the atmosphere. Moreover, the process of reducing plastic waste through recycling involves little or no emission of greenhouse gases (Chow Mui Su, 2017).

Along with environmental and atmospheric disasters, the very production and usage of plastic are a burden on the energy resources and economy of a country. According to the experts, plastic is a material that features perilous facades from its production to usage to disposal. Throughout the manufacturing process of plastic several earth resources, a considerable reservoir of energies is consumed. Take the instance of producing a regular plastic water bottle that involves a sum of energy and resources that are about two thousand times more than using plain tap water. On the other hand, after using the bottles and other plastic material, the notion of waste management emerges as a catastrophe and implies a great economic loss. Similarly, the suffusion of plastic to the surroundings and especially in the ocean is harming the mtier of traveling. The estimation of economic loss from reduced traveling and tourism opportunities affirms a total of 1.3 billion dollars, and the figure is derived only from the areas of Asia-Pacific shipping and fishing. Contrarily, the idea of reducing plastic waste through different waste management strategies and practices ensures job expansions in the waste management sector. Generally, most of the plastic products lost their economic and usage efficacy after initial utilization, and in due course, the economy bears the loss of more than 120 billion dollars annually.

Although plastic is widely used in everyday life and for a certain faction, it seems impossible to live a life without plastic. Shopping bags, packaging plastic, water bottles, and disposable utensils are inseparable entities and are deemed essential for households and other outside ventures. As a matter of fact, in the absence of shopping bags, people feel irked and pestered it is believed that using plastic shoppers and other disposable items increases convenience and handiness. Plastic products are alluded to as light-weighted and easy to carry and to be discarded. However, people need to comprehend that such expedience brings devastating impacts on the environment, economy, health, and atmosphere in the long run. Several plastic products such as plastic bags and straws are never disposed of in an adequate manner and keep revolving and harming the surroundings to an extensive extent. Furthermore, some plastic particles, even after recycling and combustion, turned into tiny particles and got mixed up in the sand and somehow diluted in the oceans, and as a result, the oceans around the world are forming a patch that is deteriorating the marine life rapidly. Therefore, regardless of all the practical usages of the plastic and its by-products, the material is utterly injurious for all social and economic aspects.

To put it briefly, plastic is a giant problematic dynamic of the contemporary age, and posing ultimate threats to the prosperity and thriving of a healthy and pollution-free planet. For this reason, the eradication of plastic waste considered a pragmatic approach to tackle all the associated dichotomies of the plastic. No doubt, the plastic products, including straws, utensils, bags, and bottles, are the most frequently used commodities in the rut of life and proffer a cheap and handy solution for organizing and keeping things without much hassle. Nevertheless, the effectiveness in usage pays in the long-term and causes extreme hazards to human and marine life. Oceans are encountering the utmost deleterious aftermaths of using plastic products, and marine creatures are paying the price of such absurd practices by giving up on your lives. On the other hand, the cost of creating and discarding the plastic involved is considerably high, and in due course, a handsome amount of countries economy gets wasted on the so-called cheapness and expedience of the plastic. Further, the ease of plastic usage is affecting the environment at an accelerated pace, and the persistent emission of greenhouse gases is damaging the ozone layer and making the world a less desirable place to live. In a nutshell, the interlinked pros of using plastic are inadequate and quite immaterial to its extreme cons. The short-term efficacy of plastic products is posing enduring dangers to the planet, and it is not a piece of cake to dwindle such disastrous effects without taking rigorous and fervor preventive initiatives.

Work Cited

Barr, Sabrina. Jason Momoa Delivers Powerful Speech On Global Crisis Of Climate  Change At UN. The Independent. N.p., 2019. Web. 13 Nov. 2019.

Chow, Cheuk-Fai, and Winnie Ming Mui Su.Emerging Practices In Scholarship Of  Learning And Teaching In A Digital Era. Place of publication not identified  SPRINGER, 2017. Print.

Engels, Jonathan. 4 Surprising Benefits Of Living With Less Plastic.One Green  Planet. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Nov. 2019.

Recycling Technologies Is Recycling End-Of-Life Plastic Into Virgin Plastic, Wax, And  Oils.Recycling Technologies. N.p., 2019. Web. 13 Nov. 2019.

Reduce Plastic Waste.HERplanetearth. N.p., 2019. Web. 13 Nov. 2019.

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