Why does plastic waste effect the environment? Plastic is made from oil, fossil fuel and limited unsustainable dangerous resources, such as, phthalate plasticizers, phthalates and bisphenol A, (BPA). According to recent studies, approximately four percent of the world’s …show more content…
Plastic waste pollution has dangerous effects on the environment, the main areas of concern are the effects on land, corruption of groundwater, loss of animal life, greenhouse admissions and the effects on the human population (Kukreja, 2016). Approximately Fifty percent of plastic production is in the form of disposable products, such as packaging. When the mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, it quickly spread into all aspects of daily life. However, with plastic being produced at such an alarming rate in today’s world, it was never taken into consideration how plastic might affect the environment (Knoblauch,