Despite durability, kitchen plastics harm the environment
- Yara Mohamed
- 30 May, 2022
Mothers use many tactics to maximize their fridges' space, so they depend on plastics where they store food in sealed or unsealed plastic bags unknowing that plastics are not environment friendly and can affect people’s health. Wafaa Menesy, Environmental Expert said that she is against the use of plastic bags whatever their type is mentioning that she read recently a news article published in the Guardian Newspaper titled “Microplastics found in human blood for the first time”. She said if what the researchers found was accurate that means the plastic particles can travel inside the human body and stay in any of the organs and this is the risk of using it. Hossam Moharam, Former spokesman of the Ministry of Environment said that “plastic bags have a severe impact on the environment, and consequently on public health, and they are not biodegradable, which increases their danger to the environment and to human health. Moharam added that it affects the quality of freshwaters, such as dioxin and furan, in addition to its impact on the quality of sea and ocean water, and thus on the marine environment when disposed of by throwing into the sea. The former spokesman of the Ministry of Environment advises the need to spread awareness of the danger of plastic containers, and to replace them with containers that are less harmful to the environment and public health, and do not interact with the materials packed inside them. He pointed out that there is an economic dimension to the process of stopping the use of plastic containers.
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