Plastics

Plastic is used in many man-made items, which are used in people’s everyday lives. Since only 9% of plastic is properly recycled, the majority of plastic waste either “accumulates in landfills” or gets dumped into the ocean and other natural environments (Parker, L., 2017). There are multiple reasons why plastic ends up in the ocean. Some examples include, people do not properly recycle plastic, small plastic particles go down sink drains, and it is cheaper for companies to dump all of their…

1.1 Overview of aerospace industry Globally, 3.57 billion passengers travelled on aeroplanes during 2015 and the demand for air travel is predicted to keep rising.1 As the frequency of air travel is increasing, it places a pressure on the aerospace industry to improve material performance and the efficiency of their transportation.2 Classically aircraft were constructed from metallic materials such as aluminium and titanium. Therefore, new materials must have specific properties and…

It is well know that there is an ongoing plastic debris epidemic with an estimated 8 billion tonnes of plastic waste being dumped into the ocean each year (Walter, 2015). With the increasing growth of the human population and the ever expanding affluence of lower income countries plastic waste is only going to increase. Marine ecosystems will be the brunt of this crisis with most terrestrial plastic waste ending its journey in the oceans. The most fragile ecosystems, coral reefs, will be the…

Currently, most prefilled syringes are made of glass, but plastic syringes are gaining popularity, particularly in applications for which glass is an unsuitable delivery system. Plastic has been an alternative to glass in prefilled syringes since the early 1990’s. Earliest plastics were, however, made of polypropylene which did not offer the clarity of glass, many of its barrier properties or ease of sterilization. Polypropylene plastics also presented more challenges regards to extractables and…

Plastic Overtaking the Oceans In a study conducted by UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), they found that “8 million metric tons of plastic” are added to the oceans pollution each year. Recently, plastic pollution has been become a predominant problem in the environmental society; however plastic production and pollution has been on the rise since the nineties. Plastic is overwhelming the world, because it is not biodegradable, meaning it can…

manner. Driving cars and the use of plastic is essential to our daily lives, but we use them without the concern for how they are affecting the habitats on Earth. Some people think that the chance that they are doing harm to the ocean is less important to them than cost or inconvenience of fixing a pollution problem. Through sources from researchers and scientists, they have found evidence of pollution caused by the two essential commodities in our lives, plastic and burning fossil fuels.…

The effects of pollution on the ocean Global plastic pollution and consumption has had far-reaching, immeasurable and harmful impacts on marine environments. Plastic is one of the most prominent materials used in manufacture. This man-made, non-biodegradable material is often produced in mass amounts to meet global supply and demand. In effect global plastic pollution has had far-reaching, immeasurable and harmful impacts on the environment. This has led to strategies being undertaken to…

Plastic pollution and the effects on the ocean By: Hana Crittenden I have decided to research plastic pollution in the oceans. I chose this topic because every other summer since I was little, my dad's side of the family has a family reunion at the New Jersey Shore. We rented a very nice beach house right on the shore. And I have always loved the ocean so I looked forward to this trip all year. But I have noticed that over the years trash has been building up. And every time I come back to the…

surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.”-Kristie alley. It has been known that many people these days are trying to reach perfection even in their looks, they believe that looks are what makes them powerful. Many celebrities or super models look flawless and many ordinary young girls get effected so the beauty standards are high which leads them to the plastic surgery road. Plastic surgery first began in India as they…

Kiener, Robert. "Plastic Pollution." CQ Global Researcher. 1 July 2010: 157-84. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. It has information dated back from the 1950s and goes all the way up to 2010. The information back in the 1950s was used in the text to compare the difference from past plastic pollution to current plastic pollution. The information was posted in 2010. It has relative sources to where I can go locate the information to where he found it. The information he gave goes in depth to plastic pollution.…