Due to the beneficial costs, convenience, and energy efficiency that single-use plastics provide, companies began producing them as a large part of daily consumer products. For example, plastic utensils cut down on labor costs because there's no need to clean them, along with plastic medical equipment reducing the spread of disease in hospitals and doctor clinics. These plastics require consumers to be committed to disposing of them properly by recycling, though, humans' neglect toward this has begun to pose a threat to the environment by pollution centralized in oceans. When plastic particles decompose they gain new chemical and physical properties, leading to them having toxic effects in certain organisms.