Surah Al-Kahf – Verses 107-108 Jannat ul firdus

Plastic should be banned

             part-1

Introduction

What are plastic made up of?

Plastic Fantastic

THE HARMFUL SIDE OF PLASTIC

·        Environmental Damage

·        Spoils groundwater

·        Threat To Animal Life

·        Pollution

·        Fumes

·        Non-renewable/ Non-Biodegradable

·        Plastic poisons our food chain.

Effects of Drinking Regularly through Plastic Bottled Water

PLASTIC HARM EFFECT ON HUMAN’S HEALTH

• ·        Plastics to avoid
• ·        Plastics to Consider

What Should You Do?

• ·        Consider a Personal Ban on Plastic Bags
• ·        Bring your own shopping bag
• ·        Stop buying bottled water
• ·        Bring your own thermos to the coffee shop
• ·        Choose cardboard or paper over plastic bottles and bags
• ·        Get the plastic off your face
• ·        Skip the disposable razor
• ·        Switch from disposable diapers to cloth
• ·        Make your period waste free
• ·        Re thinks your food storage
• ·        Shop in bulk
• ·        Recycle everything
• ·        Zero waste
• ·        Educate business
• ·        Get involved

Conclusion

Introduction

Plastic is ubiquitous that uses in everything from our telephones, carpets, shoe soles, medical equipment to the baby bottles. We store our food in it, drink water from it, and even brush our teeth with it. Specially the Plastic bags which provide convenience at the store and around the home. Plastics are cheap, convenient, and versatile since It has proved so useful to humans in 1950s, we have produced an estimated 8.3 billion metric tonnes of the stuff.–but how much do we really know about this wonder material that is surround us?

A recent push to reduce use of plastic bags is based on information concerning their negative impacts.

What are plastic made up of?

Plastic is made from hydrocarbons found in oil and natural gas. It’s created when small molecules, called monomers, are bonded together into chains called polymers.

Different monomers, when bonded together, create different kinds of plastic; some are soft and pliable, some hard and durable,and others somewhere in between.

Plastic Fantastic

The benefits of plastics are unmatched by any other material, says the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI). It is light, easily shaped, strong, and inexpensive.

Plastic kitchenware offers a practical alternative to glass and ceramic dishes. 

Plastic preserves flavour and freshness when used to store food and beverages. Leak-proof and child-resistant plastic containers are useful for holding dangerous household products such as bleach, ammonia,and other caustic cleaners.

Plastic packaging withstands the rigors of shipping, and plastic containers provide good storage solutions at home and in the office.

It seems that the benefits of using plastic are boundless–but are they really?

THE HARMFUL SIDE OF PLASTIC

The attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature.

Environmental Damage

Plastics have been known to cause a lot of environmental damage. As Plastic debris is found absolutely everywhere in our environment,  It clogs street drains in our cities; it litters campgrounds and national parks, and is even piling up on Mount Everest. But thanks runoff, and to our fondness for directly dumping our trash into the nearest river or lake, plastic is growing increasingly common in the world’s oceans.

Studies tell that a single plastic bag can take up to 1000 years, to decay completely which means the more plastic bags you use, the greater the chances of environmental damage.

Plastic harmful effect on climate

You may have thought that the only problem caused by plastic pollution is the negative effect that litter has on the environment. That is not the whole story. Plastic is a petroleum product. It is created from petroleum just like refined gasoline. The EPA estimates that production of plastic products account for an estimated 8% of global oil production. The drilling of oil and processing into plastic releases harmful gas emissions into the environment including carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, ozone, benzene, and methane (a greenhouse gas that causes a greater warming effect than carbon dioxide) according to the Plastic Pollution Coalition. The EPA estimated that five ounces of carbon dioxide are emitted for every ounce of Polyethylene Terephthalate produced (also known as PET is the plastic most commonly used to make water bottles).

Obsession with plastic pollution cause damage to climate

It is important to remember the connection between plastics and climate change. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues we face as a planet today. If other reasons to consume less plastic weren’t already enough to convince you to act, the fact that consuming plastic products exacerbates climate change should be an important reason to take personal responsibility.

Spoils groundwater

Plastics are Buried beneath landfills, toxic chemicals from plastics drain out and seep into groundwater, flowing downstream into lakes and rivers.

» There are long-term risks of contamination of soils and groundwater by some additives and breakdown by-products in plastics, which can become persistent organic pollutants. Source: Hopewell, Jefferson; Dvorak, Robert; Kosior, Edward. "Plastics Recycling: Challenges and Opportunities," Biological Sciences 14 June 2009

           Plastic litter now clutters every part of our planet,

          from remote parts of the Antarctic to

                the deepest ocean trenches