Question

-A future without littered plastic waste and single use plastic items-through sustainability and circularity.

Answer 1

Answer:

Plastic is a miracle material. Thanks to plastics, countless lives have

been saved in the health sector, the growth of clean energy from wind

turbines and solar panels has been greatly facilitated, and safe food

storage has been revolutionized.

But what makes plastic so convenient in our day-to-day lives – it’s

cheap – also makes it ubiquitous, resulting in one of our planet’s

greatest environmental challenges. Our oceans have been used as a

dumping ground, choking marine life and transforming some marine

areas into a plastic soup. In cities around the world, plastic waste clogs

drains, causing floods and breeding disease. Consumed by livestock,

it also finds its way into the food chain.

Plastic packaging accounts for nearly half of all plastic waste globally,

and much of it is thrown away within just a few minutes of its first

use. Much plastic may be single-use, but that does not mean it is

easily disposable. When discarded in landfills or in the environment,

plastic can take up to a thousand years to decompose.