Commander-in-chief Plastics İn War With Covid-19

There is no doubt that there has been an increasing negative response to plastic in recent years, and people show their reactions with mass actions sometimes, and with their momentary choices during use. However, we must also say that our life is an indispensable item. Of course, there are many industrial reasons for this: its easy workability, and therefore the possibility of rapid productionIn fact, the need for plastic has had to increase in order to respond to humankind, who has an entirely unlimited demand. It has been a tool to respond to the unlimited needs of humankind with the efficient use of a limited type of resource.

However, this general negative bias towards plastic can be easily avoided with the following simple sentence; Mankind throws plastic into nature! But is this product, which environmentalists have launched as the industry's bad boy, really? Let's answer this question with the coronavirus outbreak crisis, and try to find the bad boy.

In the coronovirus epidemic, which affected the whole world, products that became even more important than food were needed. protective mask, gloves, face shields, protection cabinets, respirators. The main material of all these products is plastic. If it were not easy to process, could these products be produced in such a short time and respond urgently to our needs? In a R&D study conducted in the USA last week, thanks to 2 plastic apparatus produced with a 3D printer, a single respirator was provided to meet the needs of 8 patients at the same time. As you can follow from the media, with the partnership of Aselsan, Arçelik and Biosys, mass production of advanced technological breathing apparatus could be started in a short time like 1 month. Or could the cotton industry meet the increasing need for masks precisely in the winter? The answer to all these questions is No. Just as these examples are sufficient to explain the indispensable place of plastic in our lives, it is an obvious example that reveals that the child we are seeking to throw into the places unconsciously / irresponsibly after the use of disposable products and create an additional epidemic risk is human rather than plastic.

Plastic is the sine qua non of the modern world. We cannot live without medicine, computer, communication, travel and many other areas. Between 1955 and 2015, 7.8 billion tons of plastic was produced in line with human needs. These plastics were produced in line with the needs, not the grief. Mankind met his needs and, because it was cheap, threw these plastics wherever his beautiful soul wanted, and then accused the plastic. It is such a bad behavior for the mankind!!

Let's try to look at the plastic-based products that save our lives, especially these days, and repeat this: Humanity is throwing plastic to nature.