Write an article on menace of polythene
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Environmentally, plastic is a growing disaster. Most plastics are made from petroleum or natural gas, non-renewable resources extracted and processed using energy-intensive techniques that destroy fragile ecosystems. The manufacture of plastics as well as its destruction by incineration pollutes air, land and water and exposes workers to toxic chemicals including carcinogens. Plastic-packaging especially the ubiquitous plastic bag is a significant source of landfill waste and is regularly eaten by numerous marine and land animals to fatal consequences.
Synthetic plastic does not biodegrade. It just sits and accumulates in landfills or pollutes the environment. Plastic wastes have become a municipal wastesnightmare prompting local governments all over the world to implement plastic bag and increasingly polystyrene (sty foam) bans. Plastic pollution may not even be visible to the naked eyes as research is showing that microscopic plastic particles are present in the air at various locations through the world in all major oceans. Plastic is now ubiquitous in our terrestrial aquatic and airborne environments-that is everywhere.
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it has dumped to 0.24 million tonnes of plastic into the ocean every year the amount of mismanaged to plastic waste per year is 0.6 million tonnes. In the case of China, the coastal population sends up to 3.53 million tonnes of plastic waste into the oceans each year.