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How Plastic Pollution is Impacting Wildlife – True Stories and Alarming Facts

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 How Plastic Pollution is Impacting Wildlife Each minute, a truckload of plastic debris is dumped into our oceans. Beyond this astonishing figure is a gut-wrenching truth: our earth's most precious animals are making the ultimate sacrifice for our convenience. From the deepest ocean depths to the top of the world's tallest mountains, plastic pollution is an unseen assassin, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent animals every year. The Silent Invasion: How Plastic Reaches Wildlife Our plastic trash does not magically vanish when we discard it. Instead, it takes a fatal trip that ultimately ends up on the doorstep of innocent wildlife. Rivers are like highways, transporting plastic trash from towns and cities straight into the ocean. A discarded plastic bottle in a storm drain can go thousands of miles, ultimately ending up on distant islands where seabirds have made their homes for thousands of years. The wind gets involved as well, scooping up light plastic bags and pieces ...

The Truth of Biodegradable Plastics: Is It Safe?

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The Truth of Biodegradable Plastics: Is It Safe? Biodegradable plastics are  plastics   that   will   dissolve   into natural  products   such   as  water, carbon dioxide, and biomass  under   specific   environmental conditions.  Traditional plastics   take hundreds of years to  degrade ,  but  biodegradable plastics  purport  to  degrade   much  more quickly . Two  broad   categories  of biodegradable plastics  are :       1. Bio-based plastics:  They   are produced  from renewable  feedstocks  such as corn starch, sugarcane, or vegetable oil.      2. Petroleum-based biodegradable  plastics: In  our  pursuit   of   minimizing  the  harm   inflicted  by plastic pollution, biodegradable plastics have  come  as a  hopeful   option . These so-...