polyethylene+terephthalate

Taken by Bryan Ngo Block D

**How does it affect us?**
We use // Polyethylene terephthalate //in our everyday lives today and it is beneficial, but is harmful to us as well. For plastic, we can create shopping bags, water bottles, videotapes, and many other things that that is used in many different areas of the economy. It is a popular material that is used to make containers and bags, its durable, and it can be used to record movies and photos. As for the fiber known as polyester, we can make clothes and housing material. On the contrary, all these useful products are being overused. The environment is having a huge impact on how much plastic is being produced, and at the same time, thrown away. It is said that it would take at least five hundred years for PET material (especially plastic) to biodegrade in landfills or wastes and surprisingly, that it has something related to the increase of global warming. The only solution that not much people are following these days is recycling. To recycle empty bottles, you get new paper.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene#Environmental_impact
Bryan Ngo/Block: D