What is your opinion on plastics? Do you think that they really are bad for the environment?

Question

Or do you just think that it is just 'exaggeration' from governments etc, and that there are more good points to things like plastic carrier bags than bad ones?

Answer 1

They're not the best thing for the environment but they're too practical to not use.  Much of it today is made to biodegrade fast enough.

We just need to be careful how we handle them and recycle as much as we can.  People are pretty good about that where I am.

Answer 2

I heard that all that millions of birds and ocean life killed each year by plastic bags is a miss quote in a study that has been reprinted over and over by environmentalist because it sounds nice and scary.  If the lie becomes bigger than the truth, print the lie.  I think plastics are good overall.  A lot of things like food packaging and sanitary heath practices are possible because of plastic.  But, I don’t think treating plastic as disposable is a good thing.  Anything that seems inefficient I am against and it seems very wasteful to just through all this plastic in the dump.

Answer 3

Plastic products were made for profit. The h**l with the rest

of the world. Same as Styrofoam.

Answer 4

Yes, they are bad because they are not biodegradable.  Unlike paper, they do not decompose.  Unless you burn or recycle them, they remain that way forever.  Manufacturing them also uses oil, which drives up gas prices.

Answer 5

Styrofoam is worse

Answer 6

Plastics vary quite a git in their chemical composition, which  makes some of  them worse than others. And there are some applications for which plastics are irreplaceable, ,such as IV lines in medcnes,artificial boby parts,  parts that are meant to decay over time, and so forth. plastics can be made hard and durable (like the sole of a shoe, a tire, a computer part, or soft and easily degradagle. Plastic is the ideal materialf for many applications.

Of course, some of the materials in plastic is very toxic. We need new formulas that aren't toxic or harmful to the environment.

Answer 7

Yes there bad they take too long to break down.

Answer 8

they are bad they are just petrols, non-biodegradable creating an unmeasurable amount of unuseable, unburnable waste