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Aluminum Cans. Paper Waste. The other and final category is some combination of the two: plant-based and fossil-fuel-based plastics. Another — and very recent — innovation is the discovery of plastic-eating bacteria.
Researchers discovered the species at a dumpsite and learned that it uses plastic as food. Moreover, it can survive the toxic chemicals that could be released from the breakdown process.
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Moreover, some scientists argue that mankind has already been geoengineering the earth, arguing that the world has moved from the Holocene to the Anthropocene era. The consequences of our interventions into earth's geophysical processes are yet to be determined, but scientists say they're so fundamental that the Holocene no longer exists. We now live in the Anthropocene, a geological age of mankind's making," stated one report.
In order to reverse the fate of our planet, the first thing that we have to do is reduce the amount of waste we throw in the garbage every day. One of the most destructive kinds of waste mankind produces is plastic. Although plastic recycling began to spread around the world in the '70s, many do not recycle plastic as it is more costly that the actual production of the product. While plastic takes years to decompose in water, it takes years for plastic to decompose in soil.
For the last few years, people in Turkey have become more aware of the importance of recycling and reducing domestic waste.
With the country now charging for plastic bags it has encouraged people to use more environmental-friendly options when they are shopping. According to the latest data, since Jan. If we want to save our planet and start taking action now, it is important to know how long it takes for different types of garbage to decompose.
For this reason, and as plastic is non-biodegradable, there is a build-up or accumulation of plastic as more and more is released into the environment. So what happens to plastic in the oceans? It accumulates in certain places due to rain, wind, or ocean currents, but some of it might simply stay in places where plastic waste is dumped. Plastic production keeps growing at a rapid pace.
Since the large-scale introduction of plastic after the Second World War, a total of 8. Of this amount, until , 6. World production of plastic increased from two million tons in to million tons in this number includes plastic textile fibers. In , the world produced nearly million tons of plastic excluding fibers.
About half of all plastic on earth has been produced in the last thirteen years. If the current trend continues, around the year , there will be about twelve billion tons of plastic in landfills and in the environment.
More plastic is being thrown away than we can clean up, even though we are doing our best.
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