Plastic Pollution

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Existence of skincare use: Skin solutions, but pollution for life





Environmental pollution is a change in the environmnet due to human actions or a process of natural selection. Environmental pollution that is no longer the beauty we see, is caused by humans who are not wise enough. For example in Indonesia, the flood in Jakarta that never stops, burning garbage to burning smoke polluting the surrounding air. It is commonplace, but this prolonged impact is very destrimental to humans. Its estimated that there will be around 99 million tones of waste dominated by plastic waste by 2030 if there are no actions to be taken. 


According to Wikipedia, plastics are a series of synthetic organic compounds that are easily formed into solid objects. In terms of its history, plastics have evolved three times from natural materials such as chewing gum, chemically modified natural materials such as natural rubber, nitrocellulose, collagen, galalite to finally become synthetic molecules such as bakelite, epoxy, polyvinyl chloride). Do you know? That plastic can be destroyed in + -1000 years. This has a bad impact on the environment because most plastics have a chemical structure that makes them strong for natural processes of degradation. 


In developed countries such as the United States, they have a luxurious lifestyle with a small population but consume a lot of natural resources to make ends meet. It is different with developing countries such as Indonesia, natural resources are depleted not because of their lifestyle but because of their very large population. However, our earth has limited natural resources and we cannot even fully recycle it. Based on journals.plos.org that "In low-income developing countries, for example Asian countries, the resulting plastic waste is exacerbated by the distribution of single-use sachet size products directed to low socio-economic communities and low-income families." Apart from being cornered on a small size package, apparently even large size packages are often found.





Plastic pollution has a major impact on the destruction of the environment, divided into 4 : 

  • Water pollution, Water pollution that often occurs around us is flooding, this is because the waterways are clogged with garbage which is dominated by plastic waste that flows to the sea floor.

  • Soil pollution, not a few people still littering, bunning rubbish and dumping the remaining burnt into the ground. This makes soil infiltration no longer optimal because it is obstructed by the plastic waste. In addition, the forest ecosystem is decreasing because it is cut down for the benefit of industrial and property management.
  • Pollution of marine ecosystem. In several articles, it is widely stated that in 2050, the sea will be more affected by plastic waste than the animals in the sea. Worse yet, many animals die from consuming this plastic waste. What if the fish you eat are fish that eat microplastics in the ocean.
  • Air pollution. A common solution that many people do without paying attention to their surrounding is to burn them, smoke flying through the fresh air and the remaining burns are buried in the ground. 
   
    It cannot be denied that skincare or cosmetics have become a necessity an dlifestyle for women and men. Plus, there is an increase in beauty vloggers who expose and provide skincare products advice for a specific purpose. Not a few people who watched it immediately buy the product. This makes the production of certain brands continue to increase along with the number of enthusiasts and demands from different ages. It is stated in the book Introduction to the Environment that "this lifestyle is determined by the business world which is driven by short-term economic interests without paying attention to long-term environmental impacts."

    Famous products to local products are increasingly mushrooming in several commercial and online shops. Companies are competing for the ideation process in the production of plastic packaging. The production of packaged goods generally uses plastic material, because the material is relatively cheap, efficient and easy to shape. Come on, help overcome our earth from plastic pollution! How? For us as users of a product, there are certainly several solutions that we can choose according to the plastic packaging we have, namely : 
  • Turn it into a new place and function, according to your creative ideas.
For example: as a flower vase, cup jar, pot, pencil holder and other.
  • Donate to the right waste bank. 
  • Return the plastic packaging to a certain brand. 

Existence of Skincare use: Skin solutions, but pollution for life.

    

    Packaging on certain products can be used as material for making plastic packaging for future production, or reused by companies with sterilization first. For example, Garnier products, organizing a Green Beauty program that aims to minimize plastic packaging waste by recycling. Make sure before doing the solution above, the plastic packaging has been washed and cleaned. Furthermore, apart from actions from the user side, there is a need for company actions to contribute to the environment and social issues. As previously explained, the Garnier brand has contributed to the environment by combating plastic waste through the Green Beauty recycling program in cooperation with eRecycle. 

    The brand also makes Recycling Programs also makes eco-friendly product packaging . It is written in the garnier.co.id article that by 2020, the company will save 402 tons of new plastic and by 2025 all Garnier products will be made without new plastic. And the good news is that in 2025, we will provide 50 waste collection points in JABODETABEK and mobilize more than 25,000 consumers to join the Green Beauty program. From a series of ideation, production and packaging. The company need to consider the plastic material used in the packaging of their products. If plastic packaging cannot be decomposed by nature, then the solution from the user's side above must be done. If the packaging can be decomposed by nature, then the use of plastics that are difficult to destroy must be addressed immediately. Opinion from - that the environmentally friendly packaging production process is more expensive, resulting in a company dilemma between balancing the ecology or the economy. 

    Apart from causing problems in the environment, plastic packaging will also be misused by irresponsible individuals to fake certain products. Of course you can't imagine the product you are using is a fake concoction right? Environmental ethics must continue to be socialized through make pamphlet or slogans such as Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
  1. Reduce which means we have to reduce the use of a product as needed, aka not excessive. For example, using a large amount of shampoo, which allows you to buy new products over and over again until you have plastic shampoo packaging that piles up.
  2. Reuse means that plastic packaging is not for single use, it must be used and developed into a repetitive function. For example, a perfume spray bottle, if the perfume has run out, it can be converted into a plant spray bottle. 
  3. Recycling means reprocessing the unusable packaging into a new function, for example a body lotion bottle which is converted into an easy, cheap and efficient plant pot.

    The simple slogan above will be very effective if it is socialized and implemented in a compact manner by all users, companies and governments. A wise and unified attitude in combating waste pollution, thereby reducing the volume of waste in the future. For example, the government supports companies to buy used plastic packaging products from all users, or the government supervises companies that produce packaging using new plastic materials. Ignorance of one's environment is not easy to detect. In addition to increasing literacy about how to wisely use plastic and plastic pollution, it is hoped that users, companies and governments can change or improve the way they behave towards plastic packaging. The problem of plastic must be resolved in various fields, because in fact humans are created with good minds to care for and live side by side with nature and the creatures around it.





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