Plastics are non-biodegradable materials.

         Plastics are Non- Biodegradable Materials

Plastics is a material which is produced  from oil by a chemical process and which is used to make objects. It is light  in weight and does not break easily .All plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic in nature.

Plastics are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass and often contains other substances. Plastics materials are comparatively cheap and easy to handle than other products they are  water and air resistant .The first fully synthetic plastic was Bakelite.

There are mainly two types of plastics that is Thermoplastics and Thermosetting plastics. Thermoplastics can be moulded again after moulding into ones like polythene bags, PVC, Nylon etc whereas thermosetting plastics cannot. Examples of such type of plastics include melamine, polyester resin etc.

In many developed  countries plastics are used for many purposes like for storing food, water and  many other things, they are also used in packing industries goods in huge amount.

But we should must stop the increasing use of plastics in our day-to-day life as they are very harmful to our health as plastics are non-biodegradable materials, they cannot be decomposed, if we throw a plastic bag in our environment it will remain in the environment. It will not be broken by microorganisms, so they are non-biodegradable materials.

Chlorinated plastic can release harmful toxic to the soil , which can mix with groundwater on  surroundings, water sources and the whole ecosystem. This can cause severe diseases to the species who drink this chlorinated water as well as these plastics reduces the yield of the soil too.

If we fire up the plastics, they will release very toxic gases which can cause severe diseases to humans and plants. We throw plastics anywhere on roadside and the innocent animals eat that and get effected by severe diseases or even death.

The throwing of plastics waste into River, Lakes, Ponds, Seas causes pollution and diseases in water which can be dangerous for water animals as they eat these plastics and get ill and may lost their lives.

In a latest survey the reason for a death of an animal was plastic, there was a bunch of plastics inside the animal’s body. But plastics does not only causes damage to humans and animals who lives on land and in water, but it  also causes problems to birds.

So, we should at-least try to reduce the use of plastics in our daily life, like we should use jute bags, steal bottles and containers instead of plastic one.

We should not throw waste plastics and give then to recycle if they can.

We should take our own bags for shopping instead of taking everytime new from shops and should always use the 3R formula.

However, after recycling several new colouring agents and chemicals are added to mould it into another shape. So we should never use that for taking food anytime as they contain harmful substances.