Wherever one turns his/her eyes, he/she sees prismatic plastics of variegated brands and materiel used. Anyway, they are all plastic and not pompons. Accordingly, while crossing on the Forbes Bridge or Jalandoni Bridge or any Iloilo bridge, we can right away mouths off that those floating drecks are plastics, which have been used in almost everything, and they are not typic components of the water.
I myself am a “plastic” person, too, I drink coffee with a plastic cup, I eat with a plastic plate and sometimes with a plastic spoon and fork, and most of my utensils at home are made of plastics.
Anywise, what are plastics? Well, they are polymers which are just very long chains of atoms which repeat over and over again. By the way, that’s the chemist’s thing when it comes to its knotty brown study, not ours.
Well, the development of plastics according to my review has come from the use of natural materials (e.g., bubble gum, shellac varnish) to the use of artificially modified innate materials (e.g., natural rubber, nitrocellulose, collagen) and finally to wholly synthetic molecules [e.g., epoxy, poly (vinyl chloride), polyethylene].
Ever since the development of plastics earlier this blue moon, they have become trendy stuff used in a wide array of ways. These days, plastics are used to make, or wrap around, many of the items we buy or use. We use plastics when we shop and they are complimentary. Actually, their cost has been toted up to the cost of what we buy. Our malls and grocerterias are staking us to plastic bags. Perhaps, this period has to be called Plastic Age.
The botheration comes when we no longer want these items and how we dispose of them, mainly the off the cuff plastic material used in wrapping or packaging. Plastics are used because they are easy and cheap to make and they can last a long time. Sorry to say, these same useful qualities can make plastic a huge pollution problem. The cheapness means plastic gets discarded with no trouble and its long life means it survives in the environment for long periods where it can do great damage. Because plastic does not go moldy, and requires high energy ultra-violet light to break down, the amount of plastic waste in our seas is bit by bit increasing.
The plastic waste found on beaches near our city tends to start off from use on land, such as packaging material used to wrap around other goods. On in the sticks provincial beaches the rubbish tends to have come from ships, such as fishing gears used in the fishing business. This plastic can affect marine wildlife in two key ways: by enmeshing living things and by being scoffed.
The plastic pollution is serious and requires extra pondering. Instantaneous action is essential more than how we are busy studying grammar or mathematics or fashion.
Cutback of the quantity of plastic used in packaging which is by and large immediately thrown away must be done. Re-use of plastics should be pushed (by businessmen). Plastic wrapping and bags should carry a warning label stating the dangers of plastic pollution, and shoppers should be encouraged to use their own bags, or recycled paper bags.
When you go to concourses in the city proper or in La Paz or Mandurriao, you must buy products with less plastic packaging and tell store persons why you are doing so. You should use your own bags or recycled paper bags though you wouldn’t look rakish. You must support recycling schemes and promote support for one in your local area.
Malls which are really concerned with this problem must grubstake the environment to eco-friendly bags without any conditions like buying this and that—which is specious! Of course, they are robber barons, no wonder!
Fishermen throughout this conurbation and province should not throw away waste line, net, or plastic waste, this causes vast suffering and many deaths. Practice and promote correct disposal of plastics in your home and at the beach. Always remember that garbage spawns garbage. Never dispose of plastics in the sewage system.
At the beach you dispose of plastics and other garbage in the cans provided. If these facilities are laughable, speak with the local authority responsible and lodge a plaint. Take your garbage back home with you if there are no containers on the beach. Pick up any plastic litter you may see on the beach or in rock pools in the surrounding area in which you are sitting or walking. Encourage kids to do similarly.
In the street never throw plastic or other trash out of the jeepney or drop it on the roadway or in the drain or in our plazas. Set an example to others and encourage them to help.
My last word on plastics is that they are not themselves a problem. They are useful and popular materials which can be produced with pretty little damage to the environment. The problem is the disproportionate use of plastics in uncommon uses together with sloppy discarding.
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