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    Plastic - An Agathokakological Entity's Sabotage

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    Plastic has both beneficial and harmful effects on the environment. While plastic is derived from crude oil in nature, it does not easily degrade back into nature. Researchers are trying different methods to dispose of plastics like landfilling, incineration, and recycling, but each method has drawbacks. New degradation methods using microorganisms and light show promise as effective and less toxic ways to break down plastics into fuel over time, such as photo degradation of polyethylene bags within a year. Continued research on photo and biodegradation may lead to better plastic disposal solutions.

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    Plastic has both beneficial and harmful effects on the environment. While plastic is derived from crude oil in nature, it does not easily degrade back into nature. Researchers are trying different methods to dispose of plastics like landfilling, incineration, and recycling, but each method has drawbacks. New degradation methods using microorganisms and light show promise as effective and less toxic ways to break down plastics into fuel over time, such as photo degradation of polyethylene bags within a year. Continued research on photo and biodegradation may lead to better plastic disposal solutions.

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    Plastic has both beneficial and harmful effects on the environment. While plastic is derived from crude oil in nature, it does not easily degrade back into nature. Researchers are trying different methods to dispose of plastics like landfilling, incineration, and recycling, but each method has drawbacks. New degradation methods using microorganisms and light show promise as effective and less toxic ways to break down plastics into fuel over time, such as photo degradation of polyethylene bags within a year. Continued research on photo and biodegradation may lead to better plastic disposal solutions.

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    Plastic has both beneficial and harmful effects on the environment. While plastic is derived from crude oil in nature, it does not easily degrade back into nature. Researchers are trying different methods to dispose of plastics like landfilling, incineration, and recycling, but each method has drawbacks. New degradation methods using microorganisms and light show promise as effective and less toxic ways to break down plastics into fuel over time, such as photo degradation of polyethylene bags within a year. Continued research on photo and biodegradation may lead to better plastic disposal solutions.

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    PLASTIC – AN AGATHOKAKOLOGICAL ENTITY’S

    SABOTAGE

    One may find quite difficult in pronouncing the title term


    ‘’Agathokakological’’ which is actually a term that is being used in Japanese
    anime to describe the thing that has both positive and negative effects.
    Indeed, plastic is such an entity that has both superior and adverse effects
    on the earth and its environment. Right from its accidental birth in 1933 to
    its nano level usage in modern times, plastic has undergone enormous
    sequential scientific Odysseys. Though plastic finds its root source from the
    nature’s crude oil, it doesn't have much ease in giving up to the nature. This
    tough character possessed by plastic makes it an antagonist to environment.
    In order to break and smoothen its tough nature, various researchers across
    the globe are trying to sort out effective ways for disposing plastics. These
    disposing methods include landfilling, incineration, recycling and various
    other degradation methods. The first method of landfilling was proven to be
    passable earlier to dispose 1.5 million tons of plastic waste when the
    population was around 2.5 billion in 1950, but with the increase shift in
    magnitude of population, made this method of disposal to be futile and
    polluting. However, most of the countries still follow this method due to
    incompetent and unavailability of suitable resources. The second method of
    incineration involves the burning of plastics which retains back some of the
    energy stored in plastics. Anyhow this method is much more toxic in
    comparison with the landfilling thereby releasing hazardous substances such
    as dioxins and poly-chlorinated biphenyl into the atmosphere. The third
    method of recycling was considered as the final efficient solution for plastic
    related problems, but then due to lack of public awareness and poor waste
    management facilities in many undeveloped countries, only about 8% of
    world’s plastic was able to be recycled that attracted only the developed
    nations. As a result of the non-success of above mentioned methods, the
    global scientific community started to focus on developing degradation
    methods using micro-organisms, light etc. to convert the plastic into an
    accessible fuel. These methods unlike conventional methods, portrayed the
    promising future for effective degradation of plastics. The term
    ‘’biodegradation” may sound familiar as it is widely used in many industries
    to accomplish a final product by the utilization of various micro-organisms
    and their derivatives. But “photo degradation” unlike biodegradation is
    limited under selective industries that uses the action of light rays (mostly
    UV) to alter the material’s structure thereby breaking it into lighter and less
    toxic substance. The process of photo degradation can further be
    accompanied by the chemical additives (promoters, photosensitizers etc.)
    which will make the plastic more light sensitive to be photodegraded. By this
    method it was proven that it takes less than a year to photo degrade a
    lighter polyethylene bag. Perhaps this method might earn in a great deal in
    future for better degradation of plastic materials.

    BY
    S MOHIDEEN ALIYAR JAFEER
    3 rd year, B. Tech-Chemical Eng.

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