plastic pollution
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China To Ban All Single-Use Plastics
people could be ingesting about 5g of plastic every week
Innovative solutions
Scientists found a bacteria that can eat plastic with its enzyme
Scientist use the enzyme from the bacteria and attached it to another enzyme and made a super enzyme.
microplastics
deeper into the problem
when plastic is swallowed by fish,harmful bacteria could find their way up the food chain to humans as humans eat them
This super enzyme could convert plastic back to its original material in just a few days
Scientist thinks that they can decrease the plastic pollution situation with the super enzyme
The amount of microplastics in lakes and soils could rival the more than 15 trillion tons of particles thought to be floating in the ocean’s surface alone.
a study showed that microplastics were found in packaged sea salt, beer, bottled water and tap water, making it virtually certain we are ingesting them.
Microplastics are plastic particles measuring 5mm in size or smaller.
Explore! Alternate Perspectives
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On July 1, both Jakarta and Japan banned the use of free plastic bags at checkout counters.
people will not notice that they harm the environment when they try to save the environment.
plastic bags make up only a fraction of marine debris in the waters of Greater Jakarta.
biodegradable bags could be the worst option in terms of the impact on climate, harm to soil and water pollution.
Products with heavy plastic packaging and containers can weigh many times more than the bag.
Objectivity: aims to reduce plastic waste that has become ubiquitous in Chinese cities, promote recycling and green packaging and curb their overflowing garbage dumps.
How: The policy will ban the production and sale of disposable plastic tableware and cotton swabs by the end of 2020. Production of household products containing microbeads will be banned by the end of 2020 and sales of such products will be banned two years after that.
Single-use and non-degradable plastic bags will be banned in major Chinese cities by the end of 2020 and across the country by 2022. In addition, single-use straws will be banned by the end of 2020.
By 2025 the proposal,they would ban all single-use plastics across the country.