The plastic world is very big. Nowadays plastic is being used everywhere.
Plastic is hazarded for the environment. Today we will tell you such
Amazing facts about Plastic – the unknown facts of plastic.
- The word plastic is derived from Greek language plastics, which means make.
The invention of plastic was done in 1862 by Alexander Parkes of England. - Recycling a plastic bottle can save so much energy that a 60W bulb can burn up to 6 hours.
- Every year about 6,000 people in the US are injured when they open plastic
packaging and are admitted to the hospital. - We throw half of the plastics (50 percent) into work only once.
- Every year, so much plastic is thrown in the whole world so that it becomes
the four corners of the whole earth. - A plastic bag can lift 2000 times more weight than its weight.
- Every year about 1 lakh animals dies due to consuming of plastic bags.
- Plastics Bags take about 1,000 years to finish.
- In India, every person uses approximately 9.7 kg of plastics per year. While 109 kg plastic is
used by per person in the US. - Rwanda is the only country in the world where plastics are completely banned.
- Most plastics are thrown into the sea, which can be very harmful in the future.
- Plastics used in cell phones are not real plastic. This is a type of cellulose which if
destroyed in the ground then it is destroyed in 3 months. - Whenever we take a new car, there is a strange smell from it. This smell is of plastic,
which leaves the odour after using it in excess quantity. - In the US, 60,000 plastic bags are used in every 5 seconds.
- In Finland, 9 out of 10 plastic bottles are recycled.
- 6 billion pounds of garbage are thrown into the sea every year, it is mostly plastic.
- The expiry date written on the bottle of water is for the bottle and not for water.
So, these are some Amazing facts about Plastic – the unknown facts of plastic