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Plastic is very useful, it is every where, everybody have at their fingertips all day long. For the last 50 years, Plastic has replaced many of the materials, due to its comfort, ease of making, cheaper in costs and durability.
Popular Plastic Products and Usage and Disposal Systems:
Product | Dangerous / Category Rating | Usage | Disposal System - Urban | Disposal System - Rural |
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Plastic Bags | 1 | Mini Carry Bags, Shopping Long Bags | 80% to Municipal waste yard, 15% thrown in private and public places, 5% thrown to road side while travelling in car/bus | Thrown in Agricultural lands, Canals, Road Side Dumps, back yards |
Plastic Sachets | 2 | Used for Milk, Shampoos, Packed Grocery provisions, Medicines, Sweets & Chocklates | 50% of Milk Sachets sell to scrap yards, Other sachets to Municipal waste yards, 10% to roadside dumps | Milk Sachets are less percentage in rural areas due to cattle breeding, other sachets are dumped in fertile lands, canals and road side dumps. |
Plastic Sheets | 3 | Used in food packing as a seperator, Parties dining table as one time for every batch, wrapping of courier products | 95% to municipality, 5% to Roadside dumps | Thrown away at comfortable spot |
Plastic cups | 4 | Plastic cups are used for water, tea and coffee, ice creams in parties, ice cream & cool drink parlours, coffee shops. Heavily used at labor works for distributing food, water and tea. | 45% Throws away where ever they drink, others thrown in the bin, collects to waste yard. | Drink and Throw away in Agricultural lands, Canals or where ever you drink. No Awareness Drive, No Guidance from the Collectorate Administration |
Plastic Plates | 5 | used for food at parties, and at labor works | 90% to waste yards | Dumping at comfortable agricultural land spot |
Plastic Water Bottles | 6 | Every one, more usage by urban people than rural. | 20% is reusable and thrown in the waste, and finally Collected at Municipal waste yard | 60% Re-use and Just Throw away |
Flexes and Banners | 7 | Mostly by Educational Institutions, Political Parties | Collected by Municipal System mostley | Throw Away |