One decade ago there
was approximately
the half of garbage in
world that nowadays.
It is amazing how the
patch of garbage is
increasing
minute at
each
day,
however this will
bring bad long term In first place, the
consequences. There environment is affected
are two principal by plastic more than we
think. This is because of
reasons for why we
the average of
need to avoid the use decomposition time of
of plastic: the this material is too long.
pollution of For instance, researches
environment and the have demonstrated that
damage of human one plastic bag needs
health. around 10 to 20 years to
their decomposition,
and a plastic beverage
bottle needs at least 450
years. In addition, the
recycle of plastic in our
society is not effective, it
means that only one in
five bottles are recycle
and the other four
contributes to add
garbage to landfills each
year.
Second, health
problems of
WHY WE NEED
humans are also TO USE LESS
caused by plastic.
The reason is that DISPOSABLE
plastic which are
in oceans is eaten
PLASTIC?
by fishes and we
eat fish. Thus,
plastic is
contained a lot of
chemicals like
hydrocarbons,
DDT,
organophosphorus
and carbamates
that which have a
big repercussion
in body, especially To conclude it is important to
in organs which emphasize in the risk that plastic
are implicated in entails, that it is demonstrated by
metabolism. consequences on environment as
well as human health. It is
important to consider that world
will not continue as we know it
today if new actions are not taken.