The Pros And Cons Of Recycling Plastic

With plastic being so prevalent, and having so many adverse effects on the environment, it’s time that people begin to reduce the amount of plastic they use and for scientists to develop more eco-friendly alternatives. In “Plastics, human health and environmental impacts: The road ahead” Rachael Stephens and Leighton Walter Kille agreed that plastic is inadequate and has been used for over a century, and that it is time we find a new solution. They gave finding found by the National Institute of Environmental Health Science which is a government research body, that conclude, there is way too much plastic waste being accumulated. As stated by Lisa Kass Boyle in “Recycling Plastic: What a Waste” argues that although there are some downsides to heavy use of plastics, the pros out weigh the cons, declaring that all the bad things about plastics that we are told about everyday is blown out of proportion.

Isabel Johnson, the author of “Bottled water, go away”, states that “8 out of 10 bottles of water will end up in a landfill” though people try and make their efforts towards recycling, there is just not a large enough portion of people contributing in the effort for it to no longer be an issue. The author of “Are we drowning in reusable grocery bags?”, Jeff Strickler states how one everyone believed that reusable grocery bags would help save the planet a little at a time but conclude that most of the time, now the bags are just found in the closets of these once hopeful people. These finding in Sticklers’ article challenges the work of earlier researchers, who tended to assume that if people were going to be spending money on these reusable bags, then surly they would be using them adequately. Plastic is killing our planet and if we sit back and do not take action then we will soon see the unacceptable