Every minute,one million plastic bottles遍布全球。在这个巨大的数字中，只有九个百分点正在回收。
现在，塑料具有数百个好处，如耐化学品和其他“侵略性环境”。
因此，它是最好的材料，我们可以用于使食物安全免受有害细菌以及医学行业。它也很轻，廉价廉价。
But, are you used to drinking your favorite drinks out of plastic containers? If so, here are 4 dangers of plastic on the environment and our planet as a whole.
让我们来看看如何减少自己的个人塑料用法（从水瓶到单用食品包）可以帮助清理我们的星球：
1.塑料瓶造成世界各地的污染
How many beaches have you been to where you need to first move a few plastic bottles before you can sit down?
Sounds gross, but this is becoming the norm in many countries and on many beaches.
下次你在海滩上散步，计算你可以看到多少瓶子。更好，收集自己并回收它们！
2. Plastic Bottles Stick Around for 450 Years
Perhaps one of the biggest problems with plastic is that it doesn’t decompose quickly. A single bottle takes450或更多年分解。
我们生产的浪费越多，堆栈就越越高。那些塑料瓶，你用来只需少时喝你的水将在很长时间左右。
3. Plastic Kills and Harms Wildlife
我们都看到野外死亡和充满塑料的动物的图像。这是一种可怕的塑料废物现实。
Not only does the material first harm animals, but it may also kill them. Animals, birds, and fish can become trapped by plastic, or mistake it for food.
By consuming plastic, many will die from suffocation or infection. This is happening the whole world over.
Blue Planet, the British TV documentary, showed the true effects of what plastic can do to animals.
As a result, businesses in the UK and making a move to stop the use of single-use plastic. How can weimplement changes in our own lives?
4. Plastic is Harming Humans too
我们可能会在短时间内哀悼动物的死亡，但在我们意识到人类也处于危险之中。
We are now finding that as fish are eating plastics, so are we. As we catch and eat these animals, there are small bits of plastic that we’re ingesting too.
In fact, in114水生物种，研究人员发现微塑料。为什么我们喂养我们的孩子塑料？
We wouldn’t want our children to suffer fromthyroidism and alcohol, so why don’t we take plastic pollution seriously too?
有塑料的危险，但不要忘记碳足迹
Wondering how you can make a difference in the world? Begin by assessing your lifestyle to see where you can make changes.
减少塑料危险时，微小的变化可以产生很大的不同。停止购买单用塑料瓶，并购买一款不锈钢选项，转而可用于长期使用。
确保你回收塑料。Put pressure on your local supermarkets to allow for refillable products.
总的来说，不要因为塑料污染有多可怕的而被消耗。这是我们导致气候变化的碳使用。
To reduce your carbon footprint, give up meat and dairy and eat local, drive and fly less, don’t purchase fast fashion projects. Finally, pressurize your local government to bring in new policies to also reduce your town’s carbon footprint.
听起来像辛勤工作？这是我们真正拯救我们星球的唯一方法。需要更多的灵感？看看我们的帖子5更加环保的心理效益。
