THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PLASTIC

PRODUCTION, USAGE, AND DISPOSAL

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THE SOCIAL EFFECT OF PLASTIC
PLASTIC PLASTIC USAGE
PRODUCTION

PLASTIC DIPOSAL
PLASTIC PRODUCTION

(Plastic News,
2018)
 THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PLASTIC
PRODUCTION
◦ Many factories want to satisfy the market’s
demand so they keep producing the plastic
over and over again
◦ Most of them located in poverty ridden areas
meaning that poor people who lived there suffer
the most due to amount of pollution
◦ Example : Region called Cancer Alley along the
Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New
Orleans (Helal & Elshafy, 2012)
◦ The workers in plastic industry, who are mostly members of the poor
working class, also suffer often due to the health hazards that the
factories may impose on them (Helal & Elshafy, 2012)
THE USAGE OF PLASTIC
 THE SOCIAL EFFECT OF
USAGE PLASTIC
◦ The usage of plastic has quite a potential
health hazard to it in the form of
bisphenol-A, or BPA.
◦ BPA or more precisely, polycarbonate
can be ingested while people
consuming products that are packed
with polycarbonate-based packaging.
◦ One of the effects of BPA is that it may
cause the activation of breast cancer
cells due to BPA being estrogenic.
(Feldman, 1997)
 WHY THE USAGE OF PLASTIC CAN
EFFECT THE SOCIETY ?
◦ People from the middle class generally have the ability to avoid
usage of plastic products due to their ability to buy alternatives
which are generally expensive, buut those below the middle class,
namely the working class and even lower, generally can’t.
◦ This can be another example as to how plastic can also cause
classist problems. (Feldman, 1997)
 THE SOCIAL EFFECT OF PLASTIC
DISPOSAL
◦ When people throw their plastic waste into
the recycling bin, they would think that
they effectively helping in saving the
environment by not encouraging plastic
accumulation.
◦ In reality, only a small part of the plastic
waste would end up being recycled.
(Geyer, Jambeck, & Law, 2017)
SO, WHAT CAN WE DO ?
WHAT CAN WE DO ?
REFERENCES
◦ Feldman, D. (1997). Estrogens from Plastic—Are We Being Exposed?
Endocrinology, 1777–1779.
◦ Geyer, R., Jambeck, J. R., & Law, K. L. (2017, July 19). Production, use, and fate
of all plastics ever made. Science Advances.
◦ Helal, S. F., & Elshafy, W. S. (2012). Health hazards among workers in plastic
industry. Toxicology and Industrial Health, 1-8.
◦ Lee, T. (n.d.). Cancer Alley: Big Industry, Big Problems. Retrieved December 9,
2018, from MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/geography-of-
poverty/se.html