HEALTH EFFECTS OF MICROPLASTICS IN INDIA

I became interested in this issue through a video that I found on YouTube that was talking about a woman in Africa recycling plastics to be made into pavement bricks. I was initially delighted by this resourcefulness and what seemed to be an environmentally friendly solution to reducing landfill waste, until they mentioned how this could actually be detrimental in the long run due to the amount of microplastics it released into the environment. I was disturbed at the thought that plastic pollution is so bad that even trying to recycle plastic into something useful has extremely harmful side effects. This prompted me into thinking about how severe the impact of plastic pollution might be on human health in developing countries due to their lack of resources to sustain clean environments.