{"id":11004,"date":"2022-11-30T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recedebioplastics.flywheelstaging.com\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:51:26","slug":"a-primer-on-plastic-pollution-from-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/a-primer-on-plastic-pollution-from-britannica\/","title":{"rendered":"A Primer on Plastic Pollution from Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is plastic pollution? Britannica (who created the Encyclopedia Britannica – if you are old enough to remember) penned this scholarly article<\/a> that defines and explains plastic pollution as is exists today.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Plastic<\/a> is a polymeric material<\/a>\u2014that is, a material whose molecules<\/a> are very large, often resembling long chains made up of a seemingly endless series of interconnected links. Natural polymers such as rubber<\/a> and silk<\/a> exist in abundance, but nature\u2019s \u201cplastics\u201d have not been implicated in environmental pollution<\/a>, because they do not persist in the environment<\/a>. Today, however, the average consumer comes into daily contact with all kinds of plastic materials that have been developed specifically to defeat natural decay processes\u2014materials derived mainly from petroleum<\/a> that can be molded, cast, spun, or applied as a coating. Since synthetic plastics are largely <\/span>nonbiodegradable<\/a>, they tend to persist in natural environments<\/a>. Moreover, many lightweight single-use plastic products and packaging materials, which account for approximately 50 percent of all plastics produced, are not deposited in containers for subsequent removal to landfills<\/a>, recycling<\/a>centres, or incinerators<\/a>. Instead, they are improperly disposed of at or near the location where they end their usefulness to the consumer. Dropped on the ground, thrown out of a car<\/a> window<\/a>, heaped onto an already full trash bin, or inadvertently carried off by a gust of wind<\/a>, they immediately begin to pollute the environment<\/a>. Indeed, landscapes littered by plastic packaging have become common in many parts of the world. (Illegal dumping of plastic and overflowing of containment structures also play a role.) Studies from around the world have not shown any particular country or demographic<\/a> group to be most responsible, though population<\/a> centres generate the most litter. The causes and effects of plastic pollution are truly worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is plastic pollution? Britannica (who created the Encyclopedia Britannica – if you are old enough to remember) penned this scholarly article that defines and explains plastic pollution as is exists today. Here is an excerpt: Plastic is a polymeric material\u2014that is, a material whose molecules are very large, often resembling long chains made up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11006,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recedebioplastics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}