PLASTIC PLANET: MAN´S BLEAK FUTURE

By Salvatore Scimino

August 17, 2012

A spaceship from another planet landed on Earth. Two aliens stepped out and engaged in man watching. After a few days of studying this bipedal primate, the extraterrestrials came to the conclusion that man was only interested in polluting Earth and warmongering. 

Upon seeing that man has contaminated the entire planet with plastics, they decided that it would be best to leave these bipedal creatures alone, for they concluded that within one or perhaps two hundred years there would not be a single specimen of his kind left. So as they came they left. 

Wilst they were here, nobody noticed their presence, for people were too busy consuming their plastics.

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POLYMERS IN MAIN HOUSEHOLD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS

Fuente: European Commission (2011). Consult this publication for the above abbreviations.

Source: Going Green Today

PLASTIC POLLUTION OF EARTH

                                                  Source: mailonline                                       

                                                                                      

                                                 PLASTICS CAUSE:

Allergies

Cancer

Hormonal disruption

Brain defects

Miscarrages

Infertility

Impotence

Obesidad

                                                                          

                                         Video 1. Plastic planet (in English)

                                     Video 2. Plastic planet (in German).


References

European Commission (2011). Plastic Waste in the Environment. Revised final report. Institute for European Environmental Policy. 171 p.