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My armor project is about plastic pollution. Today, almost everything is at least partly made from plastic. Our clothes, phones, computers, furniture, appliances, house and cars. It’s made to be long lasting materials, but instead it became trash. We also use it as coffee cups, plastic bags, togo boxes.. We don’t think about this a lot, but single-use plastic products and packaging materials, which account for approximately 50 percent of all plastics produced. Since synthetic polymers are so durable, plastic takes between 500-1000 years to break down. According to records, 9% of the plastic waste was recycled, 12% was burnt, and the rest of it mostly ended up in the ocean, about 8 million tons a year. Because it’s everywhere, marine animals keep getting trapped in plastic and swallowing it. Plastic can not be decomposed in the ocean too, it has become very tiny plastic particles, floating in the ocean, and eaten by fishes. Plastic has saturated our environment, it has invaded the animals we eat and now it’s finding its way into our body. When we eat seafood, we are eating the microplastics too. According to scientists, on average each person will consume 2000 microplastics particles in a week, equivalent to the weight of a credit card. Nature is recycling these microplastic waste with the human body. This is the biggest disaster that mankind will face in the next 50 years.

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