Plastics themselves aren't a problem; it's their management that has proved difficult. Land-based activities harm the environment, especially marine life. Every day, India's urban areas produce about 26,000 tons of plastic. Plastic waste accounts for 6.92 percent of urban solid waste, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
The
Plastic Waste Management Rules of 2016 state that urban local bodies (ULBs)
should prohibit the use of less than 50 micron thick plastic bags and that
recycled plastics should not be used to package food, drinks, or any other
eatables. Local governments must also have a separate collection, storage, and
recycling of the plastic waste in their jurisdictions, according to the rules.
What can we make from Plastic?
1.
Recycling is one thing that we can all do to help protect and improve the
environment. A plastic bottle today could hold juice, water, or soda... But,
after you've used it, what will it become?
Let's
look at some common plastics and what they can become.
Plastic
Milk Jugs and Other Containers, Milk, shampoo, laundry detergent, and household
cleaner’s bottles and containers are lightweight and tough, but they're usually
made of a different type of plastic than beverage bottles.
What
are the possibilities for them? They can be recycled into new bottles and
containers, plastic lumber, picnic tables, lawn furniture, and playground
equipment, among other things.
2.
Packs and wraps made of plastic we take our groceries home in plastic bags.
They ensure the freshness of our bread and other foods. They even let us take
goldfish from the pet store home with us. Thousands of supermarket and discount
stores, like most Target, Walmart, Lowes, Safeway, and others, now embrace
these bags for recycling. Also, many of the plastic wraps that cover the
products we purchase (including bubble wrap!) can be recycled at many of these
sites.
What
are the options for them? Plastic bags and wraps can be recycled to produce
plastic lumber, which is used to make park benches, garden decks and fences,
and even playground equipment.
3.
Bottles, Soft drinks, juice, and water bottles are a convenient way to quench
thirst...
What
are the options for them? T-shirts, sweaters, fleece coats, insulation for
jackets and sleeping bags, carpeting, and more bottles can all be made from
recycled plastic bottles.
To make
enough plastic fiber to make a cool new t-shirt, it takes about ten bottles.
A
sweater is made up of 63 bottles.
It only
takes 14 bottles to make enough fiberfill (insulation) for a ski jacket. And
114 bottles to fill a sleeping bag with adequate insulation (fiberfill). In the
United States, nearly 29.3% of plastic bottles are recycled. We can do much
better if everyone joins in.
4. Caps
for bottles, Plastic caps on bottles keep the soda fizzy while also keeping
bugs and debris out. Even though the caps are made of a different form of
plastic than the bottles, you can replace them before tossing them in the
recycling bin.
What
are the options for them? Bottle caps may be recycled into car batteries,
garden rakes, storage bins, and reusable bags, shopping bags, yarn, ropes,
brooms, and more bottle caps.
5.
Packaging made of foam More than 95% of the air in plastic foam packaging is
air! It covers and cushions your television and video game console as they fly
from the factory to the store to your house.
What is
it capable of becoming? Innovative recycling projects may transform foam
packaging into plastic items like insulation, photo frames, and home building
materials as well as some packaging made of foam.
Therefore
if we adopted all these recycling techniques then it will be very easy to make
our environment clean, and we can also come up with a new solution for plastic
recycling.
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