Sip (Cogongrass as Main Component of Biodegradable Plastic)
Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
Plastics found everywhere. Bottles, utensils, food packagings are some examples of plastics that we use and see in our daily lifestyle. We can easily have plastics for our convience because it was sold in our market directly thus spending a little of our money. Behind these things our typical perception about plastic is just a bit of what plastics really are. For those people who are concious about our environment , they say that plastics cause a wide environmental problem for the world today. Plastics causes lots of matter like: plastics thatwere trapped on waterways and dams causes floods; plastics that were burned up causes air pollution and plastics that were collected on household are now in great concentration on landfills. Nowadays, these problems can be solved if not lessen the effect in the environment by the use of our advanced technology. Today there are some industries and factories that introduces biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics decomposed much faster than the common plastic. The said product became the solution for the shortening the timeline it takes to decompose unlike to the commercial plastics. It introduces to the society because it was composed of organic aterials that are environment friendly. Calamba city ordinance No. 10-481 prohibits the use of non- biodegradable plastic bags on dry goods. The ordinace also covers the use of styrofoam within the city. The city government passed the ordinance for the reasons that the city government is spending considerable amount of money on waste disposal. Second,plastic bags clog creeks, canals, rivers, and other waterways. Third, it was implemented to reduce if not totally eliminated, plastic film bags as packaging materials. Last but not definitely not the least to prevent potential ecological imbalance. There is such an ordinance in San Pablo City that also prohibits the use of plastic bags. It was the City ordinance No. 2009-14. If we are aiming to use a
INTRODUCTION
Plastics found everywhere. Bottles, utensils, food packagings are some examples of plastics that we use and see in our daily lifestyle. We can easily have plastics for our convience because it was sold in our market directly thus spending a little of our money. Behind these things our typical perception about plastic is just a bit of what plastics really are. For those people who are concious about our environment , they say that plastics cause a wide environmental problem for the world today. Plastics causes lots of matter like: plastics thatwere trapped on waterways and dams causes floods; plastics that were burned up causes air pollution and plastics that were collected on household are now in great concentration on landfills. Nowadays, these problems can be solved if not lessen the effect in the environment by the use of our advanced technology. Today there are some industries and factories that introduces biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics decomposed much faster than the common plastic. The said product became the solution for the shortening the timeline it takes to decompose unlike to the commercial plastics. It introduces to the society because it was composed of organic aterials that are environment friendly. Calamba city ordinance No. 10-481 prohibits the use of non- biodegradable plastic bags on dry goods. The ordinace also covers the use of styrofoam within the city. The city government passed the ordinance for the reasons that the city government is spending considerable amount of money on waste disposal. Second,plastic bags clog creeks, canals, rivers, and other waterways. Third, it was implemented to reduce if not totally eliminated, plastic film bags as packaging materials. Last but not definitely not the least to prevent potential ecological imbalance. There is such an ordinance in San Pablo City that also prohibits the use of plastic bags. It was the City ordinance No. 2009-14. If we are aiming to use a