Amazing facts about Plastic – the unknown facts of plastic

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.

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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.