Contaminação por plásticos e microplásticos: (re)conhecendo a realidade vivida.

Abstract

Industrial escalation and revolution process for a number of environmental benefits, however, increased consumption and large-scale humanity raised important environmental issues. In this scenario, plastic is a low-cost product, used in the manufacture of various packaging, bags, accessories, always electronics, among other things, its incorrect disposal and accumulation in the environment has become a problem. This approximate review of the environmental impact generating a work plastics and microplastics in the different scenarios of literature and search from a work task. Relevant information was raised on the consumption and disposal of plastic in modern times, in addition, relevant information was scored on the environmental laws involved in the subject and on the importance of recycling. It is hoped, with this, to gather maintenance information for the entire population, since the maintenance of the environment is a collective responsibility.