Introduction: Plastic materials simplifies life for most humans. Plastic has amazing properties, for example it is durable, strong, flexible, lightweight, inexpensive, stainless , and insulates against heat and electricity. Plastic can be used to make almost any object, which is evident just by looking around. Trying to spend a day without touching anything plastic is almost impossible in a modern society. Plastic is present in things that are often very close to the user, as the mattress of the bed, the fabric of one’s clothes, food packages, PVC-tubing’s in medical equipment, or toys that babies or children play with, just to name a few. Plastic is so central in modern society that a life without plastics is unimaginable . The story of plastic,
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Some blows out of the water by mistake or come from large landfills. The other rest of plastic comes from people that throw it into the water on purpose or leaving it on a beach so that it ends up in the sea. Animals sometimes swallow plastic stuff or eat the plastic. The animals may be damaged and it happens that they die. The problem becomes greater because most of the plastic takes a long time to break down. The plastic that is in the sea will thus remain there if no one picks it up. Many sea turtles examined eaten plastic bags. Scientists believe they easily confuse plastic bags with jellyfish, which sea turtles happily munches on. Plastic bags can at worst choke turtles or be in the way of real food . Some other animals very often eaten plastic are seabirds. There are sea birds, marine mammals and turtles that have experienced when they suffocate and suffer from a lack of nutrition that they stuck in or swallowed plastic waste. A round 80% of plastic found in the oceans comes from land where it eventually ends up on the ground near the big cities or in deep graves. Before that, however, it caused much damage. Birds, seals, fish and other animals suffocated to death by plastic. They are mistaken, and take it for food. On average, a fulmar has 40 pieces of plastic in the stomach. More than one million birds and 100,000 mammals die every year worldwide after being stuck in or eating plastic that they found in the
Some blows out of the water by mistake or come from large landfills. The other rest of plastic comes from people that throw it into the water on purpose or leaving it on a beach so that it ends up in the sea. Animals sometimes swallow plastic stuff or eat the plastic. The animals may be damaged and it happens that they die. The problem becomes greater because most of the plastic takes a long time to break down. The plastic that is in the sea will thus remain there if no one picks it up. Many sea turtles examined eaten plastic bags. Scientists believe they easily confuse plastic bags with jellyfish, which sea turtles happily munches on. Plastic bags can at worst choke turtles or be in the way of real food . Some other animals very often eaten plastic are seabirds. There are sea birds, marine mammals and turtles that have experienced when they suffocate and suffer from a lack of nutrition that they stuck in or swallowed plastic waste. A round 80% of plastic found in the oceans comes from land where it eventually ends up on the ground near the big cities or in deep graves. Before that, however, it caused much damage. Birds, seals, fish and other animals suffocated to death by plastic. They are mistaken, and take it for food. On average, a fulmar has 40 pieces of plastic in the stomach. More than one million birds and 100,000 mammals die every year worldwide after being stuck in or eating plastic that they found in the