Plastic packaging waste usually ends up in landfill or is incinerated. Plastic takes hundreds of years to biodegrade, and it breaks down into harmful microplastics which negatively affect reproduction, growth and also cause organ damage. Landfill has a devastating impact on the environment: it destroys wildlife habitats with its physical presence and toxins leak into the soil disrupting land and water biodiversity as well as polluting human drinking water supplies. Landfill also creates greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., carbon dioxide and methane) which contribute to climate change. Further habitat destruction is…
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