About Plastic

Why is plastic bad?

• Plastic cannot biodegrade; it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces.
• Plastic spoils our ground water because it releases toxic chemicals
  • Vinyl chloride (in PVC), dioxins (in PVC), benzene (in polystyrene), phthalates and other plasticizers (in PVC and others), formaldehyde, and bisphenol-A, or BPA (in polycarbonate). Many of these are persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—some of the most damaging toxins on the planet.
• plastic poisons our food chain, which affects humans eventually
• plastic piles up in the environment (Ex. The Five Gyres)