Plastic pollution

Plastic pollution be de accumulation of plastic objects den particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags den microbeads) insyd de Earth ein environment wey dey adversely affect humans, wildlife den dema habitat. Plastics wey act as pollutants dem categorize by size into micro-, meso-, anaa macro debris. Plastics be inexpensive den durable, wey dey make dem very adaptable give different uses; as a result, manufacturers dey choose make dem use plastic over oda materials.Hester, Ronald E.; Harrison, R. M. (editors) (2011). Marine Pollution and Human Health. Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 84–85.  However, de chemical structure of chaw plastics wey dey render dem resistant to chaw natural processes of degradation den as a result be de slow make dem degrade. Togeda, dese two factors dey allow large volumes of plastic make dem enter de environment as mismanaged waste wich dey persist insyd de ecosystem wey dey travel thru out food webs.Worm, Boris; Lotze, Heike K.; Jubinville, Isabelle; Wilcox, Chris; Jambeck, Jenna (17 October 2017). "Plastic as a Persistent Marine Pollutant". Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 42 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060700. ISSN 1543-5938.Ong, Sandy (24 August 2023). "The living things that feast on plastic". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-082423-1.

 Major plastic waste generator end polluter countries 

 Total plastic waste polluters 
Dem dey generate around 275 million tonnes of plastic waste each year around de world; wey dem dey dump between 4.8 million den 12.7 million tonnes into de sea. About 60% of de plastic waste insyd de ocean dey cam from de top five countries: China, Indonesia, de Philippines, Thailand den Vietnam. De table below dey list de top 20 plastic waste polluting countries insyd 2010 according to a study dem publish by Science, Jambeck et al (2015).Jambeck, Jenna R.; Geyer, Roland; Wilcox, Chris; Siegler, Theodore R.; Perryman, Miriam; Andrady, Anthony; Narayan, Ramani; Law, Kara Lavender (13 February 2015). "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean". Science. 347 (6223): 768–771. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..768J. doi:10.1126/science.1260352. PMID 25678662. S2CID 206562155."Top 20 Countries Ranked by Mass of Mismanaged Plastic Waste". Earth Day.org. 4 June 2018.
+Top plastic polluters PositionCountryPlastic pollution 
(insyd 1000 tonnes per year)1China88202Indonesia32203Philippines18804Vietnam18305Sri Lanka15906Thailand10307Egypt9708Malaysia9409Nigeria85010Bangladesh79011South Africa63012India60013Algeria52014Turkey49015Pakistan48016Brazil47017Myanmar46018Morocco31019North Korea30020United States280

 Sources 



 Knight, Geof (2012). Plastic Pollution. Capstone. 

 Read further 

 Colette, Wabnitz & Wallace J. Nichols. Editorial: Plastic Pollution: An Ocean Emergency. 3 March 2010. 28 January 2013.
 Biodegradable Plastics and Marine Litter. Misconceptions, concerns and impacts on marine environments, 2015, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi.
 A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'. The Guardian. 28 June 2017.
 Guess What's Showing Up In Our Shellfish? One Word: Plastics. NPR. 19 September 2017
 Microplastic pollution revealed ‘absolutely everywhere’ by new research. The Guardian. 6 March 2019
 After bronze and iron, welcome to the plastic age, say scientists. The Guardian. 4 September 2019.
 Planet Plastic: How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades. Rolling Stone. 3 March 2020.
 Plastics an 'unfolding disaster' for US marine life. BBC, 19 November 2020.
 Elizabeth Kolbert, "A Trillion Little Pieces: How plastics are poisoning us", The New Yorker, 3 July 2023, pp. 24–27. "If much of contemporary life is wrapped up in plastic, and the result of this is that we are poisoning our kids, ourselves, and our ecosystems, then contemporary life may need to be rethought." (p. 27.)
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Category:Anthropocene
Category:Pollution
Category:Plastics den de environment
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