Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 11:07:00 GMT
More and more people use less plastic because they have realized that it is these that have been a primary part of the pollution on the planet.
Plastics damage all our ecosystems France Mobile Number List because they take more than a hundred years to degrade. Many of them are found on garbage islands that house all types of plastic waste and as a consequence have killed every living being that lives in that place.
For this reason, companies and governments around the world have decided to eliminate the use of plastics and even ban them.
In Mexico, for example, in several states of the Republic the use of plastics has already been prohibited and as a consequence, the plastics industry is already in crisis.
Plastic industry in crisis due to pollution
Following the initiatives adopted by different states against the use of plastic, the industry is in crisis.
In just a year and a half, more than 50 companies have closed and others reduced their production capacity by 35 to 40 percent, according to Aldimir Torres, president of the National Association of Plastic Industries (Anipac).
“There are companies in the State of Mexico, Jalisco, Michoacán, that are working between 35 and 40 percent of their capacity,” he stated.
The plastic industry generated around a million jobs, but in the last year and a half more than 150,000 have been lost and there is a risk of reaching close to 300,000, added Torres.
Every year 7 million tons of plastic are produced and consumed, of which 22 percent are bags and the rest are packaging, packaging and packaging products.
“Plastic represents around 10 percent of urban solid waste, but the problem is that it is very visual, which is why it is considered one of the main culprits of pollution,” Torres considered.
However, for José Anguiano, president of Industriales de Bolsas Plásticas de México (Inboplast), the problem of contamination is not in the bags.
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« The bag ban is a distraction from the true complexity, which is the lack of a redesign to use fewer materials in packaging, including plastics .»
Torres admitted that there is an excess in the use of plastic bags, but there is also a lack of standards for their manufacture.
“Environmentalists are right, we have exaggerated in overpackaging, but we also have the problem that in some cases the bag is not normalized.”
“In Mexico there is no standard for manufacturing a bag, so everyone makes it as they can,” Torres acknowledged.
The ideal bag
It is necessary to manufacture environmentally friendly plastic bags. They must have a percentage of recycled material and greater resistance.