Single-use plastics are items made of plastic polymers that are used once and then discarded. Plastics are polymers composed of chains of repeating polymer units that can be organic or synthetic in nature. They are non-reactive and act as insulators. Examples of common plastics include nylon, polyethylene, polyester and Teflon. Single-use plastics persist in the environment for hundreds of years and their widespread use is causing severe harm to marine life and potential human health impacts if microplastics are ingested.

1. Dr. Uma Gupta
Single Used Plastic
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Thermoplastic Polymer

2. Single-use plastics are essentially items made
of plastic for single use. which are used and
disposed of immediately after.

3.  Plastics are a type of polymer composed of
chains of polymers which can be partially
organic or fully synthetic.
 Plastics are non reactive.
 Plastics are insulators.

4.  A polymer is any of a class of natural or
synthetic substances composed of very large
molecules, called macromolecules, which are
multiples of simpler chemical units called
monomers.
 Eg. nylon, polyethylene, polyester, Teflon

7. Polymer: Polypropylene

9. 1. It takes about 450 years just for one
plastic bottle to break down in the ground.
2. Two million plastic bags are used every
minute worldwide.
3. One million plastic bottles are bought every
minute
4. Only 9% of all plastic produced is recycled.

10. 5. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the
ocean kill as many as 1 million sea creatures every year.
6. There could be more plastic than fish in the
ocean by 2050
7. The average person eats 70,000 microplastics
every year.
8. Single-use plastics are illegal in some parts of
the world (China, France, Rwanda, and Italy).
9. Last but not least but certainly the most shocking
is that nearly every piece of plastic EVER made still
exists today.