The Civil Analyst

Did you know that every year thousands of golf balls are lost in our planet's waterways? This probably does not surprise anyone who plays golf. What harm could a little golf ball do anyways? Well, new studies are coming to light that the little golf ball is a big problem. As they break down they release their contents into the ecosystem. A modern golf ball is made from the following: thermoplastics, zinc oxide, zinc acrylate, benzoyl peroxide, heavy metals, polybutadiene, and other secret combinations of exotic materials not disclosed by the manufacturer. These are not good for the planet! Don't forget about the plastic portion of the ball either. As it breaks down the plastic turns into microplastics. From the deepest depths of the ocean to the snow of the Artic microplastics have been found by pollution researchers to invade every corner of our planet. The size of the current microplastic pollution problem is huge! Estimates are between 15 trillion and 51 trillion microplasti

Plastics are one of the greatest discovery of man-kind. It has changed the way we consume anything. Our lives are so much dependent on plastics that we can’t imagine living without them. It is extremely useful product and at the same time our greatest woe. Plastics are petroleum based products made up of identical chemical subunits, known as monomers , that are linked together to form long chains. Plastics have become part of our daily life in a manner that it is very difficult to visualise our modern life without them. Due to plastics durability and non-biodegradable nature, disposal of it has become a great challenge. Around nine billion tons of plastics have produced in world since the1950s. 165 million tons of it have already entered the oceans and nearly nine million tons of plastic flows into the oceans every year (Please refer for more The Ocean Cleanup . A very less percentage of it gets recycled and rest of it pollutes the environment or enters the landfills where it can ta