Plastic fantastic: How it changed the world

In less than a century, it became known as a scientific miracle blaming as a bad environment from plastics

In simple repeat units, ie polymeric compounds - it shows the direction of the range of products based on synthetic polymers

And in the early 1960s, in the late 1950s to improve the manufacturing process, it paved the way and brought about a sharp decline in the cost of plastic manufacturing costs for low cost mass production

"Plastics are amazing inventions amazing materials" Based on Coventry Staeger Clear Packaging Manufacturer, Ian Jamie General Manager told the BBC. "It's lightweight, strong, transparent, waterproof."

Today, we believe that many things depend on it for being granted. For example, no longer requires delivery milk in the form of a glass bottle, which makes it safer, easier to transport

Plastic also allows supermarkets to prepare a larger range of fresh ingredients, wider range

Retail analysts said that the loose way to sell rather than grapes that seal trays was reduced by more than 20% of store waste, as described above

The Food Standards Agency recommends that consumers become raw poultry in plastic bags to avoid risk of food poisoning

According to British Plastic Federation, the study also suggests that if you need to replace plastic packaging with other materials in terms of quality, energy and greenhouse gas emissions, it will lead to increased consumption of packages Respectively.

In fact, plastic materials that represent alternatives to cause the emission of greenhouse gases have increased seven times during their lifetime

For all these reasons, some environmental protection is seriously talking about the clock to the era back to plastics. The challenge is to reduce the worst affects of their proliferation and reduce contamination and find the cause of its method

For Notre Dame Ellen · MacArthur, its self-title foundation launches a program called a new plastic economy, the whole product cycle must be redesigned

She told the BBC world production of 78 million tons of plastic packaging annually, 40% moving directly to the landfill

"At 32% release to the environment, 14% have been incinerated and only 14% have been collected for recovery," she said.

"Only 2% of recovered in the same plastic mass, which is wonderful, but 2% of the small 78 million tons."

Mr Allen said that 50% of the plastic can be redesigned for effective recycling. In many cases, the products are not recycled and non recycled recycled so that plastic parts together make it easy to separate

Mr. Staeger Clear Package Jamie said he is collaborating with researchers to find less harmful to the environment of new plastics. But the previous efforts failed due to technical reasons, the new product will be more expensive

Experts mentioned as the ultimate solution in the hands of consumers. As they pointed out, we choose to purchase glass bottles and cans of normal products against plastic

We are developing other forms of plastic. But they may cost more and finally the possibility to give us less attractive packaging

In our blog post (plastic living, not fantastic?), We explore the design of enterprises, the use of alternative means to extend the life cycle and improve the recycling of plastic opportunities I can. But what are the potential drawbacks of these solutions? Can you go backfired to eradicate plastics? Whether to switch to an alternative to bring about new problems? The total carbon footprint of fossil fuel-based plastics is not as bad as you think. According to our survey, in a typical lifecycle, "one way" glass (ie non recyclable or reusable), the carbon footprint can be up to three disposable plastic bottles. However, it should be noted that recycled bottles may have half emissions of disposable plastic bottles, due to its repeated use

Recycling more difficult PET bottles than you think. Some cities are not recycling most PET bottles, with a large number of PET bottle consumption in the world to recover only one particular kind of plastic bottles. They are either landfilled in our city, either immersed in the ground or harmful chemicals, or simply stay in the trash can. They still need to break down on their lives and they are present in sidewalks, parks, garden rivers, even though they are cut into small pieces