Plastic a product of hydrocarbon
which is very difficult to degrade overtime. For a product to keep its shape
over a longer period of time is considered a good feature. This is why natural
leather still in use. Plastics have revolutionized the manufacturing and
replaced the metals in lot of places. Every plastic is not bad it is use of
plastic which makes it bad. The problem lies with the term DISPOSABLE. It
relates to ease, comfort and even precautionary in some cases. In linear
systems disposables have three disadvantages one is increasing the entropy,
second is need of raw virgin material and third one is that the waste can pose
a burden to many generations in future hardly knowing the people creating mess
for them. The main hindrance in making plastics a circular business is
associated with end user which is in a best position to segregate. It is very
hard to deal with unsegregated solid waste. Most of the plastic waste end up in
rivers and finally in oceans. Few organizations are working on capturing plastic
wastes from water bodies. Recently Shell also has constructed a process plant
to create plastics from plastic wastes on a bulk scale.
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