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A small number of big corporations keep deteriorating the environment in India by producing plastic products in order to accumulate capitals. Their destructive actions affect the environment and residents’ health negatively in India. This whole process is called the second contradiction of capitalism. Moreover, companies can decide to do the spatial fix in order to solve the crises of capitalism. In a short term, the spatial fix seems to work because big companies no longer degrade the local environment. The problem is a location to which productions or markets are moved. Therefore, developing countries like India have all the side effects of the spatial fix, which is an inequality between developed and developing nations. However, in political economy approach, the solution is little bit hard to solve India’s plastic pollution. Transformation of economic production system might be helpful, but it is not the effective strategy. Although the big corporations change their systems, they will produce lots of plastic products if consumers keep using a large amount of the
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Market environmentalism considers environmental problems as the result of market failures caused by not factored environmental cost of plastic pollution into the price the consumers pay. Clearly, plastic pollution is an unintended side effect on the environment caused by the firms making plastic products and people using them. According to Jevon’s paradox, a product with lower costs and greater efficiency through innovations are used by more people widely. On the other hand, the environment becomes degradable because of the result of the innovations. The costs of producing plastic bags, for example, are cheaper than a paper bag through the innovation. Research by Chris Conway (2007) supported that “a standard plastic grocery bag costs about a penny to produce, according to the plastics industry, compared with 4 cents to 5 cents for a paper bag.” Because of the lower costs to produce, plastic bags are abundant in not only India but all other countries. However, the problem is many environmental impacts and public health problem resulted by used plastic bags. Plastic bags are made from petroleum; thus, they produce carbon emission while incinerated, leading to the global warming. In addition, while producing plastic products, harmful toxins are generated. These toxins induce skin and respiratory problems to people. In short, according to Jevon’s paradox, …show more content…
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Market environmentalism considers environmental problems as the result of market failures caused by not factored environmental cost of plastic pollution into the price the consumers pay. Clearly, plastic pollution is an unintended side effect on the environment caused by the firms making plastic products and people using them. According to Jevon’s paradox, a product with lower costs and greater efficiency through innovations are used by more people widely. On the other hand, the environment becomes degradable because of the result of the innovations. The costs of producing plastic bags, for example, are cheaper than a paper bag through the innovation. Research by Chris Conway (2007) supported that “a standard plastic grocery bag costs about a penny to produce, according to the plastics industry, compared with 4 cents to 5 cents for a paper bag.” Because of the lower costs to produce, plastic bags are abundant in not only India but all other countries. However, the problem is many environmental impacts and public health problem resulted by used plastic bags. Plastic bags are made from petroleum; thus, they produce carbon emission while incinerated, leading to the global warming. In addition, while producing plastic products, harmful toxins are generated. These toxins induce skin and respiratory problems to people. In short, according to Jevon’s paradox, …show more content…
(2007, April 1). Taking Aim at All Those Plastic Bags. The New York Times.
Gokul, R. (2014, February 18). Cauvery in the city choked under plastic, urgent action needed. The Times of India.
Gustafsson, J. (1992). An Analysis Of Groundwater Vulnerability And Water Policy Reform In India.Environmental Management and Health, 13, 175-193.
Leonard, A. (1994, September 1). Dumping Pepsi's Plastic. Multinational Monitor.
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Manning, W. J. (2002). Environmental Pollution in India: Boycott Plastic Bags. TheScientificWorldJournal, 2, 1874-1875.
Shaw, R. (2009). Enhancing disaster resilience through local environment management: Case of Mumbai, India. Disaster Prevention and Management, 18, 418-433.
Website Material on Plastic Waste Management. (2013, June 1). . Retrieved April 14, 2014, from