[Special Article] Everything About Plastic and Our Choices for Tomorrow 6, The final (Awareness and Actions have to Become One)
Since last March, we have covered the many aspects of plastic in over 6 articles. The articles include information on how plastic was born, its golden ages as the lead role of industrialization, how it ended up being a fatal threat to mankind and the environment, and its problems and solutions. We would like to conclude this series by discussing our present and our future in this age of ‘ban plastic” Too much responsibility on the consumers You probably went through your trash yesterday too, like every other day, dividing the plastic milk cartons and plastic strawberry containers, and all the plastic disposable takeout containers, cleaning them and separating them from cookie wrappers. But here we face several questions. Why is the recycling rate for plastic still only 20% when we work so hard to recycle plastic? (Which will drop even more when the rate of separating and putting recyclable materials is considered, which is 45%, and even lower when energy conversion rates i...