LOKI: Plastic Pollution Accountability

¹YahyaKemalCollage, North Macedonia

A Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for IBCOL 2023

Sustainable Development Goals

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Abstract

Plastic is all around us. Most things in the world are made of plastic, from the one of the tiniest thing to the biggest we use in our daily lives. However, the plastic is necessary but harmful in the same time.

• When plastic is produced, it is made from toxic materials such as benzene and vinyl hydrochloride. It is destined to be toxic from birth to forever. These chemicals are known to cause cancer and the manufacturing byproducts contaminate our air and soil.
• According to the OECD Global Plastic Outlook, the world generated 353 million tonnes of plastic waste in 2019, a number which has doubled since 2000.
• We will first start with ourselves. Our country faces with a very large amount of plastic, not only us but also our neighborhood countries such as Albania, Kosovo,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and other countries located on the Balkan.
• Our city Ohrid is a tourist center and is visited by many people, but they are not aware of how much waste is thrown on the sidewalks, in parks, simply everywhere around us.
• In North Macedonia there are over 1000 illegal landfills full with garbage.