Ordinary Plastic: Friend or Foe

Standard plastics are in some way degradable but the problem is that they do degrade but they like to take their time to do this, most ordinary plastic can take hundreds of years to degrade but while it’s sat there doing this it also poses other threats to wildlife and the atmosphere.

While degrading it produces several types of harmful gases that damage the atmosphere, and can cause threats to wildlife like birds can get caught in plastic beer can rings and choke on small plastic items, fish can also get caught in the beer can rings and water can get polluted by plastics and most scavenging wildlife will encounter plastics that will cause them harm. While it can be seen as a friend to the environment as it degrades, it is seen as more of a foe due to its effects on the atmosphere and wildlife.

There is another option with standard plastics and that is recycling. Plastic recycling would mean that instead of it just sitting there doing nothing and damaging the Atmosphere it can be recycled in to another plastic product and used again as plastic bags, Bottles, Containers and most plastic products you use every day.