The Environment
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The environment is the aggregate surrounding conditions of a place. The environment is affected by our daily activities and we are equally affected by the environment.
THE RATE OF DECOMPOSITION OF PLASTICS!!
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In July 1, 2000 most large grocery stores in the state of California legally required a recycle plastic shopping bags. In Europe, even stricter anti-plastic measures are gaining traction. Retailers in Modbury, England, for example, recently committed to an outright plastic bag ban. News reports have cited a statistic that the ubiquitous receptacles take 5000 years to break down in landfills. How do we know?
Actually, we don’t. Plastic bags have only been around for about 50 years, so there’s no firsthand evidence of their decomposition rate. To make long-term estimates of this sort, scientists often use respirometry tests. The experimenters place a solid waste sample—like a newspaper, banana peel, or plastic bag—in a vessel containing microbe-rich compost, then aerate the mixture. Over the course of several days, microorganisms assimilate the sample bit by bit and produce carbon dioxide; the resultant CO2 level serves as an indicator of degradation
POLYTHENE BAGS, BOTTLES, RUBBERS CAN DEGRADE IN A WEEK!!
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The ENVIRONMENT for a century now has received max attention from developed, underdeveloped country and more especially the developed world. Suggestions have been made by scientists and many researchers. Recycling has been inculcated and implanted by many sectors in countries to help save our environment from pollution. Landfill sites are choked with both degradable and non degradable waste. Many of these non degradables are plastics and rubbers. These rubbers take hundreds of years to degrade. They form majority of wastes in transfer stations and landfill sites. However there is good news now!! Plastics and rubbers can degrade in just one week. Its very simple and healthy!!
NEW PHASE OF DECOMPOSITION 