plastic pros and cons

PLASTIC POLLUTION

pros	Cons
Used for medical knee replacements	Contributes to land pollution and littering
Takes up less space in landfill	Animals can ingest or get tangled in plastic
Provides a lower cost alternative for uses like packaging	Plastic is mostly non-biodegradable
Uses half the amount of energy then others to produce	plastic waste cost a lot of money to address and clean up
Durable and can be used more than once	Recycling some types of plastic isn’t economically viable
Have a good shock absorption capacity	When burnt they produce toxic fumes
Used to reduce soil and wind erosion	In some cases, plastic and cause cancer