Podcast: Plastic Pollution

 

Plastic Pollution In Partnership With Cymg & Global Youths Alliance For Change - Ezekiel OSINACHI 

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Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic particles and objects in the Earth’s environment that adversely affect humans, wildlife and wildlife habitat. Pollutants are substances that adversely affect the health, activities or survival of a population. 

Every day, thousands of tons of pollutants are discarded into the air by natural events and human actions. Far more damaging are the substances discharged into the atmosphere by human actions. 

Plastics acting as pollutants can be classified based on their sizes into three aspects which are: micro debris plastic, mega debris plastic, and micro debris plastic. 

Mega plastics and micro plastics have accumulated in highest densities in the Northern Hemisphere, which is concentrated around the current carrying the debris, plastic can be found off the coast of some islands. Mega-plastics and micro-plastics are normally used in the manufacturing of packaging materials (such as plastic bottles, plastic bags etc.), footwear and other domestic items. These are later found being washed off of ships or discarded in landfills. Some of the items used in fishing activities are also found around remote islands. 

All these are still known as microplastic, meso-plastic and macro –plastic. Plastics are in expensive and durable. These are the reason why the plastic production by humans is very high and the demand keeps on increasing day by day. Human activities have the potential to endanger human life and the natural ecosystems. 

This is experienced when plastics such as plastic bottle, plastic bags etc are being utilised/used for packaging, after they are being utilised, it is realised that they are discarded recklessly without thinking of what will be the consequence. These plastic wastes litters everywhere when not well discarded/disposed affecting the wildlife, wildlife habitat, humans and producing chocking, and pungent odour.

 Therefore, plastic pollution can affect land, waterways and oceans. Estimation shows that 1.1 - 8.8 million metric tons (MT) of plastic waste gets into the ocean from the surrounding coastal communities each year. 

Living organisms, especially seal marine animals become harmed either by mechanical effects such as problems related to ingestion of plastic waste, entanglement in plastic objects, or through exposure to chemicals with the plastics that interfere with their physiology. 

Content written by Ezekiel OSINACHI 

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