Single Use Plastic

Single Use Plastic

Single-use plastics, or disposable plastics, are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. These items are things like plastic bags, straws, coffee stirrers, soda and water bottles and most food packaging. 

We produce roughly 300 million tons of plastic each year and half of it is disposable! World-wide only 10-13% of plastic items are recycled. The nature of petroleum based disposable plastic makes it difficult to recycle and they have to add new virgin materials and chemicals to it to do so. Additionally there are a limited number of items that recycled plastic can be used..(source: plastic free challenge)

According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF), plastic is harmful to the environment as it is non-biodegradable, takes years to disintegrate.Single-use plastics slowly and gradually break down into smaller pieces of plastic known as microplastics.

It can take thousands of years for plastic bags to decompose, thus contaminating our soil and water in the process. The noxious chemicals used to produce plastic gets transmitted to animal tissue, and finally, enter the human food chain, the WWF claims.

And single use plastic become a big problem for our. There are many things why this plastic problem does not go away.one of them is we need single use plastic in the first place, for example:

-          -Keeping food from spoiling reduces food waste, which helps reduce the strain in the planet’s resources and keeps costs down. This is partly why pre-packaged goods are often cheaper than loose goods.

-         - Because plastic packaging is so good at protecting and preserving fresh goods, it means we are able to eat a wide variety of fresh foods year-round rather than seasonally, expanding the range of foods we can enjoy.

-          -Plastic packaging is extremely hygienic, keeping food and other products insulated against any air-borne germs. It also prevents germs from being spread by people handling goods intended for consumption.

                            Actually so far there has not been a solution that can solve this problem.

        there is only how we reduce
the use of plastic. 

    but I mean, why we don't try our best to reduce the use of plastic while continuing to think of what is the 

best way to really stop using plastic.