Should Plastic Be Banned ? Pt - 2

I ended my last article with a rhetorical sentence in the form , " Why do I think plastic should be banned from use even though they are a revolutionary material to man kind and his cause ".

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As all things in life, plastic materials are also disposed when we no longer need their services or when deformed but how do we dispose them and what measures do we take in disposing them ? Plastics are practically non-biodegradeable materials meaning they don't decay when left by themselves over time ... Plastics can stand the test of time for decades even centuries without breaking or falling apart unlike wood and paper which breaks apart in matter of years. This ability of plastics (non-biodegradeable) to stand the test of time poses a threat to humans in the use and disuse of plastic materials as if they are improperly discarded, it can serve as a source of pollution.

Seeing the way plastic materials has utilised its way into our daily needs and activities, it is no strange data or odd thing to say that at least two in every three people has used a plastic material and outrightly discarded them improperly.

It isn't advisable to burn plastics due to reasons stated earlier in the Part One that they are a source of the production of Carbon Monoxide, it is best to reuse and recycle plastics in order to reduce their production and disposal rate. Three ways to keep Earth safe and green in terms of materials is to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle ... the three R's.

Keeping loads of plastic materials at home also in a bid to prevent them from polluting the environment and from the reason that we can't burn them off or dispose them without care also isn't the best of measures as they might litter our homes and become items of junks in our yard but finding appropriate use of them in a way that benefits and pays us is advisable like using old plastic bottles to plant, using old Polyethylene bag to pack our common household items and so on.

Reusing used plastic materials and all its forms saves, limits and monitors their demand and supply. Reusing used plastic materials on a global scale reduces the circulation and spread of plastic materials as a pollutant.

Recycling plastic materials is done by collecting used and disposed plastics materials and using them to create another thing. We do this by melting the plastics into the liquid form and then using the liquefied plastics as raw materials to start to production processes of other plastic products.

It saddens me to see the Oceans and rivers being polluted by plastics, some sinks to the bottom while some stay afloat. Plastics being in the rivers can also contaminate the water by releasing toxins or chemicals when heated by the sun/environment into the water and this is quite dangerous to the life in the sea/river- the fishes and other aquatic lifes.

Calling out for the ban of the use of plastics shouldn't be a far cry but it won't solve our pollution problems as we don't have yet another material that can either replace the plastic in value in our society or perform its functions efficiently, it is then left to us humans to be a good, friendly and responsible habitant to planet Earth and caution our dealings with plastics in respect of how we discard them and use them.

With these, we won't say we should stop the use of plastics or ban it usage but we shouldn't let its disadvantages faced be more than its advantages gained by doing the right things and taking the right steps towards discarding, reusing and recycling.

Good Morning to you all, thanks for reading and for your time. Do Have a nice day ahead.

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