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    Milk packets are made of low-density polyethylene plastic that is difficult to properly dispose of. Most people do not know how to dispose of milk packets correctly and simply throw them away, leaving behind small plastic pieces that cannot be recycled. These tiny pieces of plastic become microplastics that are carried by wind and rain into drainage systems and waterways, where they can be mistakenly consumed by marine life. Properly disposing of milk packets by fully opening them and including any small detached pieces ensures all plastic reaches recycling facilities instead of becoming harmful microplastics in the environment.

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    Milk packets are made of low-density polyethylene plastic that is difficult to properly dispose of. Most people do not know how to dispose of milk packets correctly and simply throw them away, leaving behind small plastic pieces that cannot be recycled. These tiny pieces of plastic become microplastics that are carried by wind and rain into drainage systems and waterways, where they can be mistakenly consumed by marine life. Properly disposing of milk packets by fully opening them and including any small detached pieces ensures all plastic reaches recycling facilities instead of becoming harmful microplastics in the environment.

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    5.6 Milk Packet A Tiny Part Causes Pollution by Bidisha Chatterjee

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    Milk packets are made of low-density polyethylene plastic that is difficult to properly dispose of. Most people do not know how to dispose of milk packets correctly and simply throw them away, leaving behind small plastic pieces that cannot be recycled. These tiny pieces of plastic become microplastics that are carried by wind and rain into drainage systems and waterways, where they can be mistakenly consumed by marine life. Properly disposing of milk packets by fully opening them and including any small detached pieces ensures all plastic reaches recycling facilities instead of becoming harmful microplastics in the environment.

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    Milk Packet: A Tiny Part Causes Pollution

    – Bidisha Chatterjee, M.Sc., 2nd Year

    From waking up to going back to


    sleep we use plastic every moment.
    As plastics are easily accessible, we
    are using it more and more and that is
    causing harm to all the species and
    surrounding environment. We all
    know that plastic plays a major role in
    environmental damages and plastic
    packaging accounts for nearly half of
    all plastic waste globally.
    In our country packaged milk is one of Bidisha Chatterjee
    the daily essentials. Milk packets are
    made of low-density polyethylene separately, they don't use the proper
    (LDPE), which is a subclass of cutting technique. We snip or tear off
    plastics. Most of people have no clear a portion of the milk sachet and that
    concept of proper milk packet tiny part can cause damage. Even if
    disposal. They just use it and throw it these pieces are thrown into a
    designated non-biodegradable bin, do
    they actually make it to the landfill
    and recycling units to be processed?
    No, they don't.
    All we can do is packets open by
    cutting a line halfway across the

    Bidisha Chatterjee

    out with biodegradable kitchen


    wastes. But we must segregate these
    separately. For recycling purposes
    this type of plastic has to be
    compressed at a high temperature and
    in certain shape else, they add no
    value. If one disposes the packet Bidisha Chatterjee

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    DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    cover. But if a portion of the packet is which could lead to clogging. These
    snipped off, make sure to put it in the can even enter waterbodies and as a
    main packet before disposing of it. If result, marine organisms may
    such pieces do not reach the recycling mistakenly consume them.
    units, it disintegrates into
    Few months ago, Karnataka vice-
    microplastics, that is, less than five
    president Tejaswini Ananthkumar had
    millimetres in length, like the size of
    tweeted, if milk packets are opened
    microbeads used in gels and
    without separating a small piece of it,
    toothpaste.
    about 50 lakh such pieces can be
    Rain and wind carry these smaller prevented from making it to the
    fragments into drainage systems, garbage. She also stated that these
    small pieces cannot be recycled.

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    DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

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