White Pollution [Sustainable Business]
It is true that white pollution has become one of the environmental problems of the world. As for the hazards of plastic, most of the time our feelings only come from those bleak little animals.It is often eaten by animals as food, and some animals are entangled in plastic and die.
Some pictures of the tragic deaths of marine animals or birds are full of shock at first glance on the Internet. However, the same type of photos have been spread for a long time, and it is inevitable that people are visually tired and slightly numb.After all, in some people’s views, at the top of the food chain, humans will not be confused about plastics like other animals and feed on garbage.
Some people believe that the drawbacks of plastic bags are really far away because no one will eat them,and we are not living in the ocean. But the ocean is really not the end of plastic waste. That is just one cycle of plastic bags. they have quietly returned to our human in the end.
It reported that millions of plastic bottles and plastic bags can be sold every minute in the world, and an average of nearly 8 million tons of plastic waste can be produced . The degradation time of disposable plastics is very long and the vitality is extremely tenacious. When the degradation is not completed, they will break into many small pieces and become "microplastics."
A research report by Dr. Philipp Schwabl of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria showed that as many as 9 types of microplastics with diameters between 50 and 500 microns were detected in human feces.
What are the effects of white pollution on our lives?
1. "Visual pollution": The waste plastic packaging scattered around cities, tourist areas, rivers and roads will bring undesirable stimulation to people's vision,it affects the overall beauty of the city and scenic spot、 destroy the urban landscape and scenes, and form a "visual Pollution" pollution. "
2, "potential hazards": after waste plastic packaging enters the environment, it is difficult to degrade which causes long-term, deep-seated ecological problems. First of all, it is difficult to dispose of waste plastic packaging on the day if it is mixed with waste: the landfill treatment will waste a long time; and it is not suitable for composting treatment, waste plastic packaging is mixed in the soil, affecting the absorption of nutrients and water by crops, which will lead to crops die; because the quality cannot be guaranteed, it is difficult to recover the classified waste plastic; if burned, plastic bags are difficult to burn because it often mixed with dirt and water, and even it becomes the secondary pollution; second, plastic bags will cause animals to die after they treat them as food mistakenly if human throw waste on land or water.
Now more and more people have begun to realize the seriousness of the problem, and many countries also took some actions to protect our earth. now, the U.S. government has enacted legislation to ban the use of microplastics in cosmetics and toiletries, which becomes the first country in the world to announce such a ban; the European Union has begun to formulate a proposal to ban the use of microplastics in cosmetics; China's related ban may also followed those countries. For our normal people, trying to minimize the use of disposable plastic products, carrying water cups when going out, and refusing over-packaged products are some measures which can make little contribution which we can do. When purchasing cosmetics and personal care products, develop the habit of reading product ingredient labels and not purchase products containing plastic microbeads.
