A Study on the Level of Plastic Pollution Awareness among Vegetable Market Vendors of Solapur City

Introduction : Plastic wastages do not get decompose easily, settles down in the earth that leads to increase in the mass of waste in the Earth. It affects the water cycle by disturbing the rainwater to enter into the land as the water and air cannot pass through it. Initially it shows decrease in ground water level and it leads to so many environmental issues. Even it sometimes causes death of animals due to the intake of plastic. The cost for recycling the plastic is very high and almost it is a loss process. The half-life period for plastic is too long that it takes some millions of years to decay. The production of plastic with lower number of microns is very cheap; unfortunately lower the microns in the plastic lower the chance to get decompose. Plastics are accustomed in the people’s daily life for use. It becomes very popular all over the world for its durability, low cost and its ease availability. Because of cheap cost plastics are made with very low number of microns.