Question by lumos: what environmental problems are created in each of the four stages of a plastic product?
I would like to know what environmental problems are created in each of the four stages of a plastic product (design, production, consumption and end of life) ?
and which improvements can be made with those environmental problems?
Best answer:
Answer by jkduehring
1-Drill the oil (risk of spills)
2-Transport the oil (risk of spills)
3-Seperate the oil into useable parts (exhaust from industrial process)
4-Plastics formation and creation (industrial wastes)
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The USEPA Sector Notebook on Rubber and Plastic Manufacturing will have tons of information on production. The references on recycling will also give you information.
design-waste
production-low standards
consumption-misuse and trash
end of life-long cycle of decomposition
when plastic is consumed, that makes the end of life. with this, enviornmental problem for the person who had end of life also is over!