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Impact of Plastics Wastes, Their Management Strategies and Role of Educational Institutions: An Overview
Summary
This overview examines the environmental and health impacts of improperly discarded plastic waste, including soil, water, and air pollution and disruption of food webs, while reviewing both conventional and emerging management strategies. The authors emphasize the role of educational institutions in raising awareness and driving behavioral change to reduce further environmental degradation from plastic pollution.
Due to the cost effective and plasticity nature, plastics and their derivatives were over utilized in the past few decades, particularly in packaging industries.Used plastics and plastic waste discarded unscientifically pose undesirable and negative impacts to the environment.Dumping of plastic garbage in the landfills, cause soil, water and air pollution and thereby it indirectly influences the vegetation and all living organisms.Plastic pollutants impart the health issues not only to the human but it affects the food web of the ecosystems.Management strategies of plastic waste adopting both the conventional methods and applying the recent technologies are highlighted to mitigate the ill-effects of plastic wastes.This article covers the role of educational institutions in order to protect the present-day environment without further degradation due to utilization of plastics.