Plastic is one of the few new chemical materials which create environmental problem. Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semi synthetic organic solid materials fitting for the manufacture of industrial products. These are typically polymers of high molecular weight, and may have other stuffs to advance performances and to decrease costs. Polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene are largely used in the manufacture of plastics.

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There are hundreds types of plastic products available in the market. Some of them are plastic bags, coatings, furniture, sheets, fittings, tanks, toys, buckets, sanitary ware, and stationary. These are some which we are using in our everyday life without caring how much dangerous it is.

Industrial revolution was the major cause of plastic spreading. It is one of the major toxic pollutants of our time. Being a non-biodegradable substance, composed of toxic chemicals, plastic pollutes earth, air and water. It produces severe harm to the milieu both during its production and disposal.

Some of the elements of plastic such as benzene and vinyl chloride cause cancer and the other elements are gases and liquid hydrocarbons that poison earth and air.

According to the recent researches the depletion of ozone has increased by about 50% in the 20th century. The uncontrolled deforestation and increased pollution causes the mounting of oxygen content in the atmosphere, which is leading to global warming.

The usage of huge amount of plastic bags directs to the corruption of the land and sea. Even if it buries in the earth also, it won’t decompose but convert the land into worse form as infertile. As in the case of other chemical substances, recycling and disposal of plastic remains as a question to sci-tech. if once the plastic is fabricated, the harm is done forever. Recycling, burning, or land filling, whatever it is, the decomposition of plastic never takes place.

Even if it is recycled, the only thing you doing is recycling the hazard again. It only helps to marketing the recycling of poisonous material once more. Since plastic does not endure bacterial decomposition, land filling using plastic would mean preserving the poison forever.

But here, we are in the modest tech-world; even without compromising to the appearance we can get the piece in biodegradable products.

Now it is the high time for all of us to say NO to plastic and plastic products as a whole in order to save our earth from poisonous gases and global warming. Let us make the earth a better place to live and gift a good and healthy living atmosphere to our future generations. The government in different countries are taking initiative, let us support to this effort without any negotiation. Let us make earth more greener and more healthy.