Read the following passage from the article:According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the amount of plastic waste generated annually is about 300 million tons. That's almost equal to the combined weight of all the people on the planet. Less than 10 percent of plastic waste gets recycled.Why did the author include this information? A.To demonstrate the extent of the plastic waste problemB.To persuade the reader that recycling is not worth the effortC.To highlight the business practices of the plastics industryD.To reassure the reader that waste generation is manageable

Which passage from the article best supports the belief that methods for eliminating the plastic waste already in landfills must be developed?A.Other businesses are also producing plastic substitutes we can all stomach.B.Petroleum-based plastic doesn't decompose, so this rubbish is a problem that's not going to melt away on its own.C.Polishing off your flatware might be fun, but these edible spoons aren't just a cool novelty.D.In contrast to the fossil fuels used to make most plastic, seaweed is a renewable resource.

essay on why using plastics to generate energy fits the green chemistry principles of constant monitoring of processes for pollution prevention and prevention of waste.Non-recycled waste goes to the landfill which increases pollution and waste on the earth. It produces harmful gases that destroy our ozone layer. As non-recycled waste increases the use of landfills will increase and therefore an increase in waste will bring increased destruction to our planet. When you don't recycled waste there is a loss of raw materials which can be very valuable and beneficial for the earth and to use for human practices in industries or anywhere where it can be the most useful. Landfills have been a growing issue for the environment for too long. For centuries rubbish has been piling up, releasing tonnes of carbon into the air. Sadly, waste that isn't recycled, incinerated or reused typically gets thrown into landfills and sometimes ends up on our beaches and in the oceans. As landfill sites are filled, some local species can be replaced by other animals that feed on refuse, like rats and crows. Leachate is the liquid produced in landfill sites. This can become toxic and thus contaminate nearby streams, ponds and lakes, damaging the habitat of many different organisms. Landfills are the ones that cause climate change, they can cause fire and explosions, they can contaminate soil and water, landfills alter the fauna, landfills reduce the value of surrounding areas, and accidents sometimes occur in landfill sites. This process requires energy as you are wasting the earth beneficial products by throwing heavy amounts of waste therefore if we recycle waste which will happen electically then it will not be time consuming, will beneficial for the earths atmosphere and we will get raw materials to use further in life and can help our planet. We can increase employment this way by recycling our waste. Waste products could be used in construction industry, 10% if the waste goes to landfills which gives us less use of landfills, no loss of raw materials, less waste, and there is the removal of CO2 emissions and toxic gases using fibres. Moreover, it saves energy while reducing the release of greenhouse gases to help tackle climate change. According to the Environmental Protection Act, if 35% of waste is recycled, landfill waste will decrease by 65%. Gases are produced in landfills due to the anaerobic digestion by microbes. In a properly managed landfill this gas is collected and used. Its uses range from simple flaring to the landfill gas utilization and generation of electricity. Landfill reuse allows a community that financially supports groundwater monitoring and landfill closure to get something in re-turn. Dozens of landfills have been successfully converted into parks, golf courses and nature preserves. For example, a closed landfill in Milwaukee is now a popular ski slope.

The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming an upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015. Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioural propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles) is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. Published in the journal Science in February 2015, a study conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results: every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It’s equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2025, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. So the cumulative input for 2025 would be nearly 20 times the 8 million metric tons estimate – 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world!Q.17 :-As per the passage, which of the following statements are true? Most of the plastic present in the ocean today has originated from the land and plastic pollution is present on almost every beach.Most of the plastic present in the ocean today has originated from the land. In recent years, the production of plastics has declined and plastic pollution is present on almost every beach.Plastic is cheaply available and that lead to the overconsumption and it  does not degrade easily thus it ended up being a pollutant. Most of the plastic present in the ocean today has originated from the land.In recent years, the production of plastics has declined. PreviousNext

Recycling of plastic bottles leads toa.Industrial wasteb.Habit erosionc.Resource depletiond.Reduced ocean waste

Which of the following impacts of plastic waste have direct economic consequences?Group of answer choicesAccumulation on beachesEntanglementBoth B and CClogging of intake ports