plastic pollution: How to get rid of plastic ?
Publié le 15/11/2022
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How to get rid of plastic ?
Good afternoon everyone, I’m going to present you a speech about plastic pollution.
First and foremost, plastic was synthesized in 1907 by Leo Baekeland in New
York.
Very soon, due to the low production costs, plastic objects were cheap and
therefore all organisations made huge profits.
Today, 460 million tonnes of plastic
are produced in only one year and it keeps on increasing every year.
Plastic is mainly
used for single uses, which represents a large amount of the world's plastic wastes.
Besides, the accumulation of plastic waste has created a vortex of waste in the
pacific ocean called the Seventh Continent which is made up of about 1 trillion
pieces of waste.
Similarly, the biodiversity is being destroyed such as fish, sea turtles
or even coral reefs who are dying because of plastic waste.
As far as solutions are concerned about plastic waste, it's currently
impossible to totally get rid of it now, but we can reduce plastic pollution by stopping
using plastic.
The use of single-use....
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