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Plastics are produced in 1 second, mixed into ground in 1000 years

Plastics are produced in 1 second, mixed into ground in 1000 years
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The plastic trash thrown into the environment both polluting the environment and hundreds of thousands of sea animals are destroyed. About 8 percent of the world oil is used for manufacturing only plastic products.

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Planetoscope, the plastic bag is launched around 500 billion due to the shopping from large small stores worldwide. In many of Western countries, an important part of these bags is recovered by recycling method, while in developing countries, this situation is the opposite.

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According to the information that the site is based on the research of the British ‘Reuse push’ association, plastic bags are distributed around 16 thousand per second in the world. While the production time of a plastic bag is only 1 second, the time of replacement between stores and consumers is only 20 minutes. However, if the mixing time of plastics thrown into nature is 400 years. Some of them find 1000 years.

Because the basic raw material of products such as plastic bags and pet bottles is oil, these products play an important role in oil consumption and reduction of energy sources in the world. According to the data of the organization called Conso Globe, the total of plastic products produced all over the world find 260 million tons. 8 percent of oil in the world are used in the production of plastic materials.

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The provision of recycling of plastic substances plays an important role in reducing oil consumption. Due to the recycling of 1 ton of plastic substance, approximately 2 thousand 500 litres of oil can be saved. [

Plastic bags or other plastic wastes are quite large if they damage to live. While it is estimated that there is a plastic waste around 250 billion in the Mediterranean, it is only a 126 million plastic bags per year on the French coast.

Thousands of sea creatures that mix plastic items with live types. In birds, this situation is more vahim and every year it is telef for the plastic materials that they are ingested millions of birds.
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