PlasticsEurope Polska Annual Report 2018

Plastics have become a part of everyday life, increasing our comfort, convenience, and safety – they can be found almost everywhere, from food packaging through garden, kitchen, and living room furniture, as well as electric and electronic equipment, to clothing and sports gear.

Strong, lightweight, and easy to process and form, plastics are used in thousands of everyday products. Even though they have now become subject to mass criticism, the majority of critics admit that, after thoroughly considering the matter, they do not aim to completely ban the use of plastics. They are simply expressing their opposition to the big environmental pollution caused by plastic waste, because it is the excessive and unreasonable use of cheap disposable plastic products and lack of waste management which pose the real problem. Therefore, we should be blaming not plastics, but ourselves, the consumers of the plastic products which litter our environment.