Facts about plastic?

Question

any facts about plastic? ie. 753634 plastic bottles can make a car something like that.

Answer 1

**To Rita B:  Limestone (CaCO3) is only one molecule away from being human.  That molecule is DNA.  What the h**l does your answer mean?

Answer 2

plastic increases pollution.animals get defeated.we can make islands out of plastics

Answer 3

Fantastic Plastic Facts

* Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60W bulb for up to 6 hours.

* 9.1 billion plastic bottles were disposed of in 2002 with only 360 million of them being recycled.

* In Britain we use about 275,000 tonnes of plastic bottles in our homes every year- that's about 15 million bottles every day.

* It takes about 450 years just for one plastic bottle to break down in the ground!

* An average 323 plastic bags are taken into our homes every year and it takes 500 years to decay when sent to landfill.

* It takes about 25 recycled plastic drinks bottles to make one fleece jacket.

* Only 2.5% of plastic bottles are presently recycled in Europe.

Answer 4

Plastic is made from petroleum.

Answer 5

Plastic bags may weight less and take up less in landfill than paper, but paper is biodegradable - and I have never heard of a bird or fish being choked to death by a paper bag.

Having said that, Durable, reusable shopping bags are definitely the way to go anyway

Answer 6

Plastic is a wonderful substance that is grossly misused in the marketplace. It has a real place in medical applications, as there is nothing like it for IV lines and IV bags. It also spares a lot of trees, and it is much cheaper to make things like phones out of plastic than it is out of metal. Having said that, we need new recipes that make it more biodegradable, as this is a serious problem.

Answer 7

Fantastic question!

Fact.....plastic has a low melting point and cannot be made sterile, so new plastic must ALWAYS be manufactured for food items.

Fact....plastics started to be made in the 1930's.

Fact....97% of the plastic ever created since plastic first started being created, STLL EXSITS on the earth today!!!!!!!!!!!  

Fact....the 3% of plastics that no longer exsists has been insinerated.

Fact....plastic does NOT biodegrade, or decompose.  Instead plastics continue to break into smaller and smaller molicules that are STILL PLASTIC.  Plastic breaks down until it is microscopic, but still plastic!

Fact....once plastic breaks down to the microscopic level, it enters the food chain, and is consumed by microscopic organisms.

Fact....plastics block up these microscopic organisms, because they are unable to digest the plastic, and kill the microscopic organisms.

Fact....without microscopic life, all life on earth with cease to be.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Fun link to read....click on it, and read chapter 9:

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/toc.html

Answer 8

AGAIN --

I LOVE this question.

Did you know that olio products like "I can't believe its not butter", "smartbeat", etc are only one molecule away from plastic?

It's like the twinkie  -- indistructable