Environmental hazards are problems to our environment. Plastic and polythene waste products bring about continues environment pollution. Unfortunately, many developing countries have not looked at effective environmental policies regarding land pollution, particularly plastic and polythene waste. Plastic is a polymeric material—that is, a material whose molecules are very large, often resembling long chains made up of a seemingly endless series of interconnected links (Page Bailey, 2015). The impact of land pollution as a result of plastic and polythene waste affect the quality of human lives. Developed nations, such as England, United States (US), and China have used different approaches to sanitize their environments. For example, facing limited landfill, incineration capacity and rising disposal costs, city managers throughout the US are providing incentives to get plastics out of the municipal solid-waste stream (Page Bailey, 2015). If other developing countries can adopt similar practice, whereby local governments provide incentives to plastic recyclers and polythene wastes, environmental pollution could be reduced. To protect the existing markets for plastics production, and to take advantage of plastic recycling, reliable practice of plastic recycling is necessary. Nearly all the major plastics manufacturers in the US. are involved in some recycling efforts. For example, Du Pont Co. and Dow Chemical Corp. have allied themselves with municipal waste collectors and recycling companies, such as Waste Management Inc., to upgrade their recycling efforts. In Europe, all 3 of Germany’s major petrochemical producers – Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst – have joined to form a recycling-research coalition, within their companies.
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