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    Plastic is a convenient, strong and universally important product utilized throughout the world. However, despite plastic’s convenience and prevalence, which consumers appreciate, it is a devastating reality that the convenience of use of plastic in so many household goods comes at a very high price for our earth and the beings that live on it. With increasing amounts of plastic polluting the oceans and dangerous chemicals being emitted from plastic products, plastic is a hazard to many animals, humans and the environment. Plastic is a useful product that may be virtually impossible to eliminate completely from our daily lives. The harmful effects are being handled with insufficient action and attention. As expert Jill Thompson, Citizens…

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    Drowning In Plastic

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    Drowning in Plastic: The Throwaway Society Since it birth in the decade of the ‘90s, plastic have play such an important role in every aspect of the modern-society. Thanks to its unique combination of properties such as durability, versatility, and cost of production, plastic’s dependency seems to not have end. Packaging, construction materials, medical devices and a surfeit of consumer goods are examples of products manufactured from plastic. It is estimated that 100 millions tons of plastic…

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    Since the beginning of the 20th century plastic has become the most common material. Plastics play an important role in almost every aspect of human life. It is found in virtually everything these days; plastic is used to manufacture different products like furniture, beverage containers, toys, and food packages. What makes a lot of manufactured materials these days depends on plastic, because of its durability, lightweight, flexibility and it low cost. Also it can be easily molded into a…

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    this modern world, plastic be the most used material for packaging in almost every industry. The word ‘plastic’ comes from the Greek plastikos which means easily shaped (Robertson, 2013). Plastic is the combination of many molecules that linked together as one long chain which made from polymers: poly (Greek) means many and meros (Greek) means part (Robertson, 2013). Raw materials of plastic are called feedstock which come from natural and synthetic resources, such as crude oil, natural gas,…

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    Plastic Bottles Are Just Big Trouble “50 billion plastic bottles are used each year in America, that’s enough to wrap around the world 190 times,” (Leithman). Even though plastic bottles are popular now, when they were first created in 1947, they were very expensive and not many people bought them. However, in 1960, high-density polyethylene was made and introduced to the public. As the demand for plastic bottles escalated, consumers produced more plastic bottles for cheap, while selling the…

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    dire and costly. Different materials have been used for product packages, but plastics lead the way in terms of the most frequently used packaging material by many industries globally. A large percentage of products in a supermarket shelf are packaged using plastics. The water people drink, the food they eat and the electronics they buy are contained in different forms of plastic material. However, the use of plastic packages is not a problem.…

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    It has been complicating issue what the US government approach regarding the use of plastic material. In case study revealed Lake Apopka, Florida’s third largest lake encountered a chemical spill in 1980 abolishing alligator population and other agricultural affect with endocrine disrupters. The function of plastic provides utilization in our day to day life. Products manufacture creates flexible material cause to exist it in our society though convenient in our day to day use. Plastic…

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    Plastic, a type of material that contains any wide-ranging synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that has unique properties like malleable and so can be moulded into solid objects which are suitable for the manufacture of industrial products. It brings convenience to us but at the same time, affects the health and life of human beings badly. As the world population increases, the amount of garbage including plastic as well increases which directly causes the accumulation of this products…

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    Plastic Surgery

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    Plastic surgery is difficult to define specifically where it has a number of key characteristics, said by The Plastic Surgery Report. Surgical and non-surgical techniques are involved to reshape the normal structure the body. Consumers begin an innermost characteristic of plastic surgery to improve their self-esteem and appearance. As a result of medical need, other medical procedures are performed for therapeutic reasons. However, it is difficult to define the procedures performed for…

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    Plastic Surgeries

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    all the information provided and the supporting Ideas. A survey conducted to ask ten people their opinion on plastic surgeries revealed that a 70% of them did not agree. Plastic surgery gives people many benefits in the way they think about their self-image and self-esteem. The leading reason why plastic surgeries are beneficial is because of the mental, emotional, and physical advantages they offer in giving people a new appearance to make them feel and look better. Self-esteem is one of the…

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