Plastic is a killer. lets avoid it
(avoid goods packaged in lot of plastic)
regards
Guru
91% of plastic isn’t recycled, new study finds
By Alexandra Jacobo -
July 24, 2017 | News Report
A team of scientists set out to conduct the first study of how much plastic
has been produced, discarded, burned or put in landfills, and the results
are horrifying.
Mass production of plastics has resulted in 8.3 billion metric tons of
plastic, most of it ending up in the trash and, due to it taking 400 years
to degrade, the environment. Half of that amount has been made since 2004.
The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, began two years ago,
around the time that scientists began to predict that by 2050 there will be
more plastic in the oceans than fish. It is the first global analysis of
all plastics ever made.
Some quick facts that the study discovered:
Of the 8.3 billion metric tons that have been released, 6.3 billion
metric ons has become plastic water.
Only 9% of the 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste has been
recycled.
79% of plastic waste is accumulating in landfills or is in the
environment as litter.
If current trends continue, by 2050, 12 billion metric tons of plastic
will be in landfills. The is equivalent to 35,000 times heavier than the
Empire State Building.
China alone accounts for 28% of global resin and 68% of polyester
polyamide and acrylic fibers.
*The rate of plastic manufacturing has double roughly every 15 years.*
Half of all plastic manufactured becomes trash in less than a year.
Much of the growth in plastic production is due to plastic packaging,
which accounts for more than 40% of non-fiber plastic.
Recycling in the U.S. hovers around 9%, well below Europe (30%) and
China (25%).
As the study’s lead author, Roland Geyer, states, “You can’t manage
what you don’t measure. It’s not just that we make a lot, it’s that we also
make more, year after year.”
Geyer says in order to gain control of plastic waste, “We as a society need
to consider whether it’s worth trading off some convenience for a clean,
healthy environment. For some products that are very problematic in the
environment, maybe we think about using different materials. Or phasing
them out.”
source -
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IT for Change, Bengaluru
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Gurumurthy K <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Bottled water is one of the biggest threat to our environment. Let us stop
> using bottled water and let us educate our students also to avoid it
> always. We can carry our own water bottles and fill from water sources.
> read article below, it is for the National Parks in USA but equally
> applicable to us also ... In USA, the bottled water manufacturers are
> lobbying the government to stop any law banning bottled water!!
>
> regards
> Guru
>
> *Why Ban Plastic Water Bottles in National Parks?*
>
> The United States' national parks are popular. So popular, in fact, that
> the National Park Service is having significant challenges dealing with the
> waste generated by the hundreds of millions of people that make their way
> through 85 million acres of national park land every year.
>
> In 2015, more than 305 million people visited
> <https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/news/release.htm?id=1775> national parks,
> easily eclipsing the all-time visitation record that the National Park
> Service recorded in 2014. Around 365 of 409 parks recorded record
> visitation numbers, and park officials see no reason to believe this trend
> will not continue.
>
> Three hundred million people produce a lot of waste: over 100 million
> pounds per year
> <https://www.npca.org/articles/1292-study-reveals-lack-of-awareness-of-waste-challenges-facing-us-national>,
> much of which consists of single-use plastic water bottles. To the
> companies that bottle and sell water, often at over 2,000 times the cost
> of tap water
> <http://www.businessinsider.com/bottled-water-costs-2000x-more-than-tap-2013-7>,
> those three hundred million people represent hundreds of millions of
> opportunities to sell their product and, at an average of $1.50 per bottle,
> billions of dollars in revenue.
>
> In the first half of this decade, national parks started to take proactive
> steps to address the challenges that come along with more visitors, more
> waste and more impact to the landscape and wildlife. Park service officials
> were finding that one of the largest sources of trash in the parks was
> single-use plastic water bottles.
> <http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/park-plastic-bottle-bans-work-but-remain-few-and-far-between.html>
>
> For a decade, Gina Macllwraith lived and worked in many of this country's
> national parks, including Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Grand
> Teton National Park in Wyoming. Her job was to make the parks more
> sustainable for the companies that provide food and lodging and other
> services to park visitors.
>
> a huge part of the waste stream," Macllwraith said. "There are so many
> bottles it's ridiculous. It is a major challenge and it makes me mad that
> [IBWA is] trying to prevent parks from dealing with it."
>
> In the parks where Macllwraith worked, they eliminated single-use plastic
> water bottles and instead provided water stations and extremely affordable
> reusable bottles for visitors.
>
> "We made sure we had a wide variety of price points so it wasn't
> prohibitive to people to buy a reusable container. We made it to be as
> cheap as buying a disposable bottle of water," she said.
>
> Zion National Park in Utah was the first to ban single-use plastic water
> bottles
> <https://www.nps.gov/sustainability/parks/downloads/GPP%20Success_ZION_bottles_4_17_12.pdf>,
> followed shortly by Grand Canyon National Park. Twenty others soon
> followed. And, according to National Park Service data, the bans worked.
> <http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/park-plastic-bottle-bans-work-but-remain-few-and-far-between.html>
>
> In Arches and Canyonlands National Park in Utah officials saw a 15 percent
> reduction in their total waste stream and a 25 percent reduction in the
> amount of material they had to haul to be recycled. In Grand Canyon
> National Park in Arizona they saw a 20 percent reduction in their waste
> stream and a 30 percent reduction in their recycling load and in Saguaro
> National Park they had a 15 percent total waste reduction and a 40 percent
> reduction in their recycling load.
>
> A recent study
> <https://www.npca.org/articles/1292-study-reveals-lack-of-awareness-of-waste-challenges-facing-us-national>
> by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), found that more than
> 35 percent of park visitors drink from disposable water bottles. And nearly
> almost 80 percent of visitors would support the removal of single-use water
> bottles in national parks if it would significantly help reduce waste.
>
> rest of the article is available on http://www.truth-out.org/news/
> item/38402-nestle-and-coca-cola-attempt-to-block-
> national-parks-from-banning-bottled-water-sales
>
>
>
>
> IT for Change, Bengaluru
> www.ITforChange.net
>
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