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  It’s fast approaching the end of July, and with it the month long campaign dedicated to raising awareness about minimising the purchase of all products with plastic packaging and in particular reducing single-use plastics.   The publicity campaign may well have calmed down a tad by now, but this year, more than previous years, the message seems to have permeated further, taken a hold within communities and the ripple effect can be seen and felt if one is discerning enough to notice. . It’s not just those flimsy plastic bags that are getting negative press though. It’s also plastic straws and water bottles and microplastics which are floating in our waterways and oceans and being gobbled up by fish and then…yup, you guessed it, gobbled up by us! It can all seem a bit overwhelming, too big a problem to possibly tackle all on your own. Even when we’re told there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050, it’s hard to really know where to start...

  How bad is bad when it comes to plastic water bottle pollution? Pretty bad. Americans buy 29 billion water bottles a year. For every six bottles people buy, only one is recycled. That leads to a big problem given the fact that water bottles do not biodegrade, but rather photodegrade. This means that it takes at least up to 1,000 years for every single bottle to decompose, leaking pollutants into our soil and water along the way. Yuck! As a result, U.S. landfills are overflowing with 2 million tons of discarded water bottles. And because plastics are produced with fossil fuels, not only does that make them an environmental hazard, but also an enormous waste of valuable resources. Here are just 15 of the most dangerous ways water bottled is polluting the earth, one bottle of water at a time, as well as six things you can do about plastic water bottle pollution. 15 ways plastic water bottle pollution is destroying the planet It takes 3 times the amount of water in a bottle of wate...

                                          Plastic Pollution Plastic pollution is  the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat, and humans.  Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro-, meso-, or macro debris, based on size . Common Causes of Plastic Pollution There are many reasons why plastic pollution takes place. The biggest contributing factor has to be human activities because they are the ones that manufacture plastics and then introduce them into the environment. Some of the common causes of this type of pollution include: 1. Plastic bags from shopping:  When you buy items from the retail store, chances are that they’ll be packaged in plastic bags. Most of them are thermoplastics that are produced in large quantities. Wh...

  10 worst single-use plastics and eco-friendly alternatives Plastic is an incredible material, made to last forever So what’s the deal with  single-use plastics ? Around 40% of plastics consumed are single-use. While convenient, they’re discarded after just one use. The amount of time, energy and effort that goes into producing, exporting and importing these products just doesn’t add up — especially if they’re made to last forever. Where do single-use plastics go once we’v e  used them?Shockingly, only 12% of plastics used in Australia ends up recycled. For years, we’ve been sending our plastic waste overseas to be processed, but now countries like China have refused to accept 99% of our rubbish. These days,  our recyclable  waste often ends up stockpiled in landfill, littered by the sides of roads, in our parks, nature and oceans.Something needs to change. Here are the 10 worst  single-use plastics  and some eco-friendly alternatives you can swap the...

  Plastics were once seen as miraculous materials that catered perfectly to our culture of convenience – cheap, lightweight, easily mass-produced and simply thrown away after use. However, we soon came to realise that plastics are a lot harder to get rid of, than to create. Most plastic materials never completely degrade; they remain in our environment, slowly being broken up into smaller and smaller pieces, and whilst recycling programmes have been put in place across developed countries, it is thought that just 5% of plastics are recycled effectively, with 40% ending up in landfill and over 30% in the environment. The rest is burnt, creating energy but also consuming more fossil fuels in order to manufacture new plastic materials that are forever demanded by our economies. In the developing world, this explosion in demand for cheap and easily disposable products has grown faster than the ability to deal with the huge amount of plastic waste generated in these ...