{"id":30529,"date":"2018-10-26T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30529"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:06:28","slug":"in-a-plastics-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-a-plastics-world\/","title":{"rendered":"In a plastics world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/in-a-plastics-world\/article23288786.ece\"><strong>In a plastics world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Findings of a recent study led by US-based non-profit organisation Orb Media that pointed out presence of microplastic in package (bottled) drinking water<\/li>\n<li>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a review into the potential risks of plastic in drinking water after a new analysis of some of the world\u2019s most popular bottled water brands found that more than 90% contained tiny pieces of plastic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s contention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government should wake up and take remedial action against the dangers of microplastic in bottled water<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is microplastic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microplastics are particles of less than 5 mm that enter the environment either as primary industrial products, such as those used in scrubbers and cosmetics, or via urban waste water and broken-down elements of articles discarded by consumers<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the most common type of plastic fragment found?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According\u00a0to the Orb Media study, the most common type of plastic fragment found was <strong>polypropylene<\/strong> \u2013 the same type of plastic used to make bottle caps<\/p>\n<p><strong>Promise of Global intervention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In December 2017, in Nairobi, UN member-countries resolved to produce a binding agreement in 18 months to deal with the release of plastics into the marine environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scale of the problem of release of plastic into marine environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8 million tonnes of waste, including bottles and packaging, make their way into the sea each year. There is now even the Great Pacific Garbage Patch of plastic debris<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the Great Pacific Garbage patch?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Great Pacific Garbage Patch\u00a0is a collection of\u00a0marine debris\u00a0in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is\u00a0litter\u00a0that ends up in\u00a0oceans,\u00a0seas, and other large bodies of water<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The amount of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch\u00a0accumulates because much of it is not\u00a0biodegradable. Many\u00a0plastics, for instance, do not wear down; they simply break into tinier and tinier pieces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dealing with the problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most efficient way to deal with the pollution is to control the production and distribution of plastics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banning single-use bags and making consumers pay a significant amount for the more durable ones is a feasible solution<\/li>\n<li>Enforcement of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, which require segregation of waste from 8<sup>th<\/sup> April 2018 will retrieve materials and greatly reduce the burden on the environment<\/li>\n<li>Waste separation can be achieved in partnership with the community, and presents a major employment opportunity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EU\u2019s vision 2030<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the European Union\u2019s vision 2030 document on creating a circular plastic economy explains, the answer lies in changing the very nature of plastics, from cheap and disposable to durable, reusable and fully recyclable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a plastics world Context Findings of a recent study led by US-based non-profit organisation Orb Media that pointed out presence of microplastic in package (bottled) drinking water The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a review into the potential risks of plastic in drinking water after a new analysis of some of the world\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-a-plastics-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In a plastics world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704804893},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}