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Plastics are associated with poor environmental practices consuming fossil fuels in their production and disposal. This 20 page paper considers the way in plastics production and recycling may be undertaken in a cleaner way. The paper focuses on recycling looking at the lifecycle from the recycling perspective including the creation of plastics using plants that result in biodegradable plastics as well as the ways in which plastics may be recycled. The bibliography cites 50 sources.
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20 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEplastics.rtf
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medical equipment to food packaging and use in high technology goods. In many cases plastic may have replaced a shorter live product that was more expensive. For example, the use
of plastics in the construction industry where all types of material from timber to steel has been replaced with a range of plastics (Douglas, 2998, APME, 1996). Other uses, such
as some medical uses, may have goods made of plastic that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible to make from other goods (Stewart, 2005) From this perspective plastics are
a boon, they have been facilitators and created ease and convenience, increased the quality of life and has also developed markets that have lead to economic wellbeing. However, there has
also been a high cost, one that was not originally realised when the plastics industry first developed. The production of plastics also has a high environment costs with the use
of many non renewable sources during production and disposable. The awareness of the problem is increasing. The pressure to make the changes and develop cleaner plastics production is seen globally
but with different levels of commitment and for different bodies. For example, in Ireland there is a ? 0.15 tax on all plastic carrier bags used in supermarkets and they
are banned in Bangladesh (Knight, 2002). There have also been the passing of legislation in many countries, and consumer pressures but the problems still remain.
In this paper we will consider the need to find ways of clean production to reduce the waste and pollution of the plastics lifecycle, with a high
level of focus ion the need to recycle efficiently. The paper will start by considering background to the lifecycle and then take plastics through that lifecycles considering ways that clearer
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