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Plastic is synthetic and non-degradable in nature. Hence remains in the same form for a very long time. Normal plastic that we use day to day and throw on the land, takes 1000 years to decompose in the landfills. Hence, it is not suitable for land fills. Plastic bottles take 450 years and the plastic carry bags take 10 to 20 years to decompose. If not used in the land fills, they enter the nature and end up in the stomachs of fish, whales, birds, cattle and goats and possibly even in man.
Plastic fibres have been found in 83 % of drinking water samples all over the world. 93 % of the bottled water samples had microplastic particles. At present, there is little over 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic in the world created since 1950. In 1950, the production of plastic was only 2 million tonnes. It rose to 8.3 billion tonnes in 2017. At the present rate, by 2050, it will become 34 billion tonnes. Out of this, 12 billion tonnes would be the plastic waste.
There is no limit to the dumping of the plastic in the oceans. A six tonne Sperm Whale was found washed ashore in Southern Spain. It had 32 kilograms of plastic in its stomach. A study done in 2015 revealed that 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic is dumped in the oceans every years from the land. By the year 2050, there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the oceans.
We presently recycle 9 % of waste plastic, 12 % goes to industries and 79 % gets accumulated in the land fills which would remain there un-decomposed for the next 1000 years.
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