How do plastics benefit and harm the environment?

Answer 1

Plastic is very harmful to the environment. About 400 cows die yearly as they eat plastic that is littered around. Plastic does not decay into the ground by the action of microorganisms but it stays in the environment, this is the main reason plastic is harmful. DON'T LITTER.

Answer 2

Plastic destroys nature by having hazardous chemicals in the plastic. And if an animal eats the plastic, it could die. Also, if there is an plastic can holder, fish and ducks, and anything else that can fit their head through the hole, it could either choke, or suffacate themselves.

Answer 3

Plastics aren't biodegradable, which means the don't dissolve when it gets dumped into a landfill. So the plastic sits there for millions of years and nothing happens to it, unless someone decides to keep the plastic product and use it for a project of some sort.

Answer 4

The real impact of plastic bag litter is felt on wildlife both in the marine environment and in rural areas.

Tens of thousands of whales, birds, seals and turtles are killed every year from plastic bag litter in the marine environment as they often mistake plastic bags for food such as jellyfish.

Plastic bags, once ingested, cannot be digested or passed by an animal so it stays in the gut. Plastic in an animal's gut can prevent food digestion and can lead to a very slow and painful death.

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Answer 5

plastic helps our invioment by cutting down less trees, but it also harms our invioment because it can not be decomposed

Answer 6

Only if you burn them