Plastics as a Catalyst for Environmental Devastation and Climate Change: Unfolding the Impacts and
Consequences through Plastic Poems

Abstract

Nowadays, plastics are inevitable, and their production is unstoppable as their need is increasing daily. People use plastic objects in various forms such as plastic bags, covers, and boxes, and get them voluntarily from the shops. Though plastics are convenient in many ways, they harm the environment and human lives, and cause climate change because of emitting greenhouse gases while littering and incinerating. Therefore, plastics pollute land, air and water. International and national environmental organisations have proposed many schemes and policies to avoid these kinds of environmental devastation. Nevertheless, people are not willing to practice the schemes and policies to safeguard nature. Therefore, this research article tries to answer the questions of how plastics are harmful to the environment and humans, how plastics cause global warming and other climate crises, why plastic management remains a failure, and how literary poems pay attention to depict the consequences of plastics. The research article’s objective is to expose the consequences of excessive use of plastic items through literary poems.

Keywords: Plastics, Microplastics, Environment, Global warming, Climate change