Environmental and public health impacts of plastic wastes due to healthcare and food products packages: A Review
Environmental and public health impacts of plastic wastes due to healthcare and food products packages: A Review
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医疗保健和食品包装塑料废物对环境和公共健康的影响：综述
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2021
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Ugoeze Kc;Amogu Eo;Oluigbo Ke;N. N.
塑料制品在当代得到了广泛的应用，成为医疗保健、食品和其他人类必不可少的产品包装中不可或缺的最常见材料。这些包装材料由可生物降解的环氧树脂、聚苯乙烯、发泡聚苯乙烯、聚烯烃、聚氯乙烯和聚碳酸酯等塑料基料制成，其中还含有几种不安全物质，以帮助生产和产品美观。在医疗保健、食品和相关产品中对塑料包装材料的创新开发已经发展到利用一次性使用和丢弃使用后的包装的程度，这些包装通常只会导致危险的塑料废物的普遍存在，在几个地方产生大量塑料废物，破坏城市，污染环境并破坏生态系统，造成公共卫生后果。大气、动物和人类面临着灭绝的威胁，这是由于这些塑料废物中有害成分的排放，这些有害成分饱和并污染了生态系统。如果医疗保健、食品和相关包装中的大量塑料垃圾在使用寿命结束时得到妥善管理或回收，这些危害可能会减少。受这些挑战影响最大的新兴经济体应采取塑料废物管理方法，特别是回收、再利用和制定有关塑料包装产品的制造、使用和处置的扶持政策。如果政府和政策制定者在每个社会的各个层面加强启蒙工作，再加上对塑料包装材料管理的严格规定，有效的专业将随之而来。
Plastic products have gained contemporary extensive utility, became indispensable and the commonest material used in product packaging in healthcare, food and other articles essential to humanity. These packaging materials, produced from plastic bases like the bio-degradable, epoxy resins, polystyrenes, expanded polystyrenes, polyolefin, polyvinyl chloride and polycarbonates also contain several unsafe substances incorporated into them to aid their production and product aesthetics. The innovative exploitation of plastic-based packaging materials in healthcare, food and related products has evolved to the extent of harnessing single-use and discard after-use packages which have merely given rise to the prevalence of menacing plastic wastes generally, creating heaps of plastic wastes in several spots, defacing the cities, contaminating the environments and upsetting the ecosystem deleteriously with its public health outcomes. The atmosphere, animals and humanity are confronted with threats of extinction due to the discharges originating from the harmful constituents of these plastic wastes which saturate and contaminate the ecosystem. These jeopardies could be abridged if the bulk of plastic junks due to the healthcare, food and allied packages are properly managed or recycled at the end of their useful life. The emerging economies that is mostly affected by these challenges should adopt plastic waste management approaches, especially recycling, reuse and establishment of enabling policies on the manufacture, use and disposal of plastic-based packaging products. Effective majors will ensue if the government and policymakers would enhance enlightenment efforts at various levels of each society coupled with strict regulations over the management of plastic-based packaging materials.
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4.8
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Welshons, Wade V.;Nagel, Susan C.;Saal, Frederick S. vom
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Saal, Frederick S. vom
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11.4
作者：
Guo, Ying;Alomirah, Husam;Kannan, Kurunthachalam
通讯作者：
Kannan, Kurunthachalam