Plastic
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Save the fisssssssshhhhhhhhhh!" --"Stop Plastic Pollution" (2015) by Florian Schneider "Despite efforts spreading across America to reduce the use of plastic and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, the plastics industry is rapidly scaling up new production and promoting a familiar solution: recycling. But it’s estimated that no more than 10% of plastic produced has ever been recycled. The documentary “Plastic Wars,” from FRONTLINE and NPR, reveals how plastic makers for decades have publicly promoted recycling, despite privately expressing doubts that widespread plastic recycling would ever be economically viable." |
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Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.
The success and dominance of plastics starting in the early 20th century led to environmental concerns regarding its slow decomposition rate after being discarded as trash due to its composition of large molecules. Toward the end of the century, one approach to this problem was met with wide efforts toward recycling.
See also
- Great Pacific garbage patch
- Plasticarium
- Plastic arts
- Plastics in art
- Plastic particle water pollution
- Plastic furniture
- Plastic pollution
- Plastisphere
- Plastic Wars
- Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags