Throw away culture

by Fritzi Mae Gapuz

Recycling is not the perfect lightbulb at the bottom of the world’s waste adversity—not even close. What is wrong with plastic recycling? Why aren’t most plastics recycled?

Plastic production is a complicated process. The plastic we see today for the most part comes from fossil fuel sources. After only one or a couple of uses, single-use plastics end up tossed in the trash and then into our landfills, our oceans, and waterways—adding to plastic waste. Plastic waste is an enormous issue that has been addressed plenty of times with merely bandaid solutions, yet we are still at the rear look. Just like a blind leading a blind.

“Plastic production has more than tripled since the ’90s. It also shows half the world’s plastic was made after 2003. About 150 million tons of plastic—many of it non-degradable—is floating in our oceans,” reported by the World Economic Forum.

For many animal species, plastics are a total eco nightmare. The viral video of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril led to the plastic straw ban. Most plastics are not biodegradable and cannot be separated normally by microscopic organisms or other residing things, and accordingly, the vast majority wind up in untamed wild habitats where it represents a threat to plants and creatures.

Though the realm of plastics is fundamental to 21st-century living, it can likewise be very risky, particularly when we overproduce, overuse, and over-devour and afterward neglect to reuse, reuse, and discard it appropriately.

The issue of singleuse plastic cannot be addressed by only one individual: we need cultural change and fundamental activity. To achieve foundational change in handling the environmental emergency, we need to handle plastic contamination across the entire plastics esteem chain—from the extraction of nonrenewable energy sources that fill in as the feedstock of plastic, right to the removal of plastic waste.