DINAMIKA UPOTREBE PLASTIČNIH MASA – DOBA EKO PLASTIKE
PLASTIC USE DYNAMICS – ECO PLASTIC AGE

Summary/Abstract: Artificial plastic materials have begun to produce yet in the nineteenth century, when it comes to the discovery of vulcanization process and celluloids, but synthetic materials are generally initially considered as a surrogate for natural products. Over time they showed irreplaceable characteristics that involved them equally as inevitable instrumentation in everyday life and work. The main disadvantage of these materials is the transiency at high temperatures, and their persistence, on what's being recently working to produce a plastic material that can be easily recycled, i.e. that is biodegradable and not harmful to the environment (eg. PVC-polyvinylchloride in its composition contains chlorine, which is highly toxic and harmful to the environment, and its recycling is very complicated). In the West, it is already evident that a time shift is coming – the replacement of many plastic materials to those eco-friendly, i.e. biodegradable and derived from other resources other than fossil fuels. This work shall be a voice calling attention to the issue.

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