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What are three disadvantages of making and using plastic

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1. It pollutes the land and water.
2. It takes a long time to break down.
3. It conducts head and electricity.
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Answer:

1.Pollution: produced when plastics are manufactured.

2.Recycling is expensive and relative: once plastic has been recycled it can not be used again for human consumption.

3. Permanence and take up a lot of space: Some plastics take hundreds of years to disappear and keep garbage dumps full.

Explanation:

Plastics are materials that by their composition can change shape and preserve it permanently, since they are polymers formed by long chains of repeated, synthetic molecules, with a large number of applications or uses. Their indiscriminate usage and lack of recycling culture have created the mentioned environmental inconveniences.

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