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What are the consequences of plastic?
Serious Effects of Plastic Pollution
- Negative Effects on Human Health. We eat plastic-contaminated seafood.
- It Upsets the Food Chain.
- Groundwater Pollution.
- Land Pollution.
- Air Pollution.
- It Kills Animals.
- It is Poisonous.
- Cleaning Plastic is Expensive.
What are 2 consequences of plastic pollution?
The most visible impacts of plastic debris are the ingestion, suffocation and entanglement of hundreds of marine species. Marine wildlife such as seabirds, whales, fish and turtles mistake plastic waste for prey; most then die of starvation as their stomachs become filled with plastic.
What are the 3 effects of plastic pollution?
These include: Physical impact on marine life: entanglement, ingestion, starvation. Chemical impact: the buildup of persistent organic pollutants like PCBs and DDT. Transport of invasive species and pollutants from polluted rivers to remote areas in the ocean.
How do plastics cause environmental pollution?
The burning of plastics releases toxic gases like dioxins, furans, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (better known as BCPs) into the atmosphere, and poses a threat to vegetation, and human and animal health. Burning plastic also releases black carbon (soot), which contributes to climate change and air pollution.
What will happen if plastic pollution doesn’t stop?
Estimates suggest there could be upwards of 5 trillion individual pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. And if we continue producing plastic at current rates, the amount could outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Additionally, a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die annually because of plastic waste.
What happens when plastic pollution gets worse?
How does plastic pollution affect our future?
Plastic now clogs our drains and spreads across our parks, reservations, and mountains. But the effect doesn’t stop there as the natural process of runoff continues this spread throughout our lakes, rivers, and oceans. Plastic pollution may also be contaminating the air that we breathe every day.
What do you see as the cause for plastic pollution?
Plastics that degrade in water sources can cause pollution by making the water obtained from such places unfit for human consumption. The burning of materials made of plastic also causes pollution. These are some of the ways in which plastic pollution occurs in the environment.
What are the harmful effects of plastics?
Direct toxicity,as in the cases of lead,cadmium,and mercury
How do you stop plastic pollution?
The only way to stop plastic pollution is, Using carry bags from home. If given plastic bag, never throw it on roads after using. Try bringing small things from shops in hand rather then asking for plastic bags.
What are the menaces of pollution caused by plastic?
Over-usage of plastic bags for shopping