How plastics become a headache for the Earth?…

Nexus Waves
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2 min readAug 7, 2021

It’s impossible to know whether your creation gonna change this world or end this world.

Plastic, the only thing that you can see anywhere in any direction and even into the space. Plastics are polymers with huge elasticity.

How was plastic got created?

Plastic got evolved since the use of natural plastic like gums and shellac. In 1500 to 1600 BC, we started the using of plastic. In 1855, Alexander Parkes created first man made plastic and named it Parkesine.

Plastic bags were invented to save the planet, according to the son of Swedish engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin who created them in 1959. The bags were developed as an alternative to paper bags, which were considered bad for the environment because they resulted in forests being chopped down.

Why was plastic first invented?

Plastic was something new and just created a century ago before the creation of plastic bag. Plastic bag was invented due to need of something that can easily hold anything without tearing itself up.

How plastic becomes headache for the earth?

Plastic bags are made from a ubiquitous polymer substance known as polyethylene. This begins as ethylene, commonly extracted from natural gases, then treated to become the polymer, forming long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

In earth, Humans produce 300 million tonnes of plastic waste. That nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human species.

The major plastic polluted country.

China (27.7%)

Indonesia (10.1%)

Philippines (5.9%)

Vietnam (5.8%)

Sri Lanka (5.0%)

Thailand (3.2%)

Egypt (3.0%)

Malaysia (2.9%)

Nigeria (2.7%)

Bangladesh (2.5%)

South Africa (2.0%)

India (1.9%)

Rest of the world (27.3%)

Any solution?

I got you and I have a solution too. Just use plastic bag instead of plastic bag.

Let me teach you. It’s pretty simple. Use a plastic thing that doesn’t make with plastic components.

Example — Cassava plastic bag

Cassava is a cheap and common root vegetable across Indonesia, home of the inventor of the plastic, Kevin Kumala. The bioplastic contains cassava starch, vegetable oil, and organic resins. The material is biodegradable and compostable, breaking down over a period of months on land or at sea.

What do you get?

Plastic bag or every plastic related accessories, which were first created to save the world and now plastic becomes headache over time.

Just do yourself a favor that say no to any kind of plastic related things.

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