Plastic Pollution - created from Mind Map

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Generalities

Environmental effects of plastic pollutions

Causes

Solutions

Prevention of plastic pollution

Most of today’s plastics are made from Organic polymers produced from petroleum- based Chemicals.

With the production outspacing almost every other material production, plastic waste is now one of the biggest environmental scourges of the time.

According to the state of plastics report, only nine percent (9%) of the nine billion tonnes of plastic in the world ever produced has been recycled.

Most ends up in landfills, dumps or in the environment especially the oceans.

The estimate show that over 400,000 marine mammals perish every year due to plastic pollution in oceans.

The scale of the challenge is daunting. The exposure of humans to plastic pollution also has health challenges.

Plastics consist of major toxic pollutants having the potential to cause important harm to the environment in the form of water, land and air pollution

Groundwater Pollution

It Upsets the Food Chain

Killings of Animals

Land pollution

Poisonous Ability

Air Pollution

The plastic pollution is poisonous. Plastic pollution has the potential to poison animals, which can then adversely affect human food supplies.

It is the presence of chemicals in the atmosphere in concentrations high enough to harm organisms, ecosystem, or human made materials, or to alter climate

Plain old trash

Fishing nets

Disposing of plastic

Plastics are found everywhere along the streets and roads of every cities and towns making them to be untidy.

Trash dumps and landfills are major problems because the pollutants are allowed to get into the ground thereby affecting the wildlife and groundwater.

The plastic pollution on the land poses a threat to the plants and animals including humans occupying the land.

The amount of plastic poised on the land is greater and more concentrated than that in the water.

The cartons of some products such as can-milk, can- beverages, can-tomatoes are lined with plastics so as to allow proper packaging.

Plastic drinking bottles, water bottles, straws and stirrers used for soft drinks

The ocean has faced different problems of plastics pollution created by the fishing industry.

The nets used for large scale fishing activities are usually made of plastic

The largest ocean-based source of plastic pollution is discarded fishing gear which includes traps and nets, and it is estimated to be up to 90% of plastic debris in some areas.

The ropes and nets used for fishing activities are often made of synthetic materials such as nylon

These fishing nets become submerged in water, on spending much time it releases toxin at will. Later, they get broken up.

This kills and harms the local wildlife, but it ensures that pollutants enter the water and fish of the area

Plastics have complex chemical composition. This makes plastic to be durable and do not break down easily.

Plastics and resins have different properties related to contaminant absorption and adsorption depending on their chemical composition

Most of the wastes in the form of plastic in landfills, are single-use items such as packaging.

The recycling of plastics is not enough to reduce the large number of plastics that litters everywhere.

The polymer degradation takes a long period of time due to saline environments and cooling effect of the sea.

The process of recycling plastic could result to the release of plastic irritants and harmful chemicals into the environment.

This may change as scientists shift to developing plastics made from biologically based chemicals.

Reuse

Reduce

Recycle

Reusability refers to the use of materials more than once in their original form instead of throwing away after each use

In order to reduce plastic pollution, there is need to reduce our usage of plastic.

Recycling of plastic involves collection of plastic waste and reprocessing it into new products, in order to reduce the amount of plastic in the waste stream.

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