Plastic pollution is a growing worldwide environmental concern, including damages to the marine life and affect to quality of soil and water sources. While there are a number of consequences behind this trend, I believe several measures can be taken to tackle this problem such as promoting waste management system, recycling instead of single usage of plastics.
Plastic pollution has far-reaching effects on the environment, including soil and water pollution, loss of biodiversity both oceans and lands. Firstly, around the world, The majority of proportion wastes are on the oceans. For instance, plastic pollution is reaching a size of some European countries. Following this, marine life is suffering considerable problems. Especially sea birds, after discarding garbage, after some times they turn into microplastics and spread out. As a result, sea birds could mistake them to food, resulting blockages in digestive system and can cause suffocation. Then such kind of marine creatures maybe die from micro killers.Moreover, usage of single-use plastics is another major cause of waste pollution. There are several type of plastics which is non-degradable. They can affect to quality of of soil and also causes for loss of crops and food industry. While they also produce toxic gases such as methane and carbonate dioxide which are very harmful both biodiversity and environmental issues like a climate change.
To effectively address the problem, solutions must be implemented at every stage of the plastic life cycle – from production to disposal. There are some solutions that can help reduce plastic pollution. First and foremost, effective way to reduce pollution is waste management system. Governments should introduce some restrictions and systems to promote recycling instead of single-use plastic. There are some alternatives to avoid increasement of using such non-degradable materials. On of useful solution is eco-friendly options such as paper packaging. It provides more access to reduce plastic pollution with help of decomposing easily than other wastes.
To conclude that plastic wastes can offer several issues for harmful to both marine life and land, however there some ways to address it effectively, which includes, using of eco-friendly alternatives and promoting some waste managements.