Synthetic Polymers

                             Synthetic polymer are human-made from the utility point of view, it is often referred to as polymers or plastics. It was invented by Alexander Parks in 1855. It was called park sine (later on celluloid). It is industrially produced chemical substances consisting of a number of molecules.

                             Polymers are made of small repeating units called monomers. Polyethylene is the simplest polymer, which consist of ethane (ethylene) as a monomer units and the corresponding linear polymer is called high density polyethylene (HDPE). There are the types of polymers: synthetic and natural. Synthetic polymers are derived petroleum oil, and made by scientists and engineers. Examples of synthetic polymer includes nylon, polyethylene, Teflon, and epoxy. Natural polymers occur in nature and can be extacted. They are often water based. Examples of naturally, occurring polymers are silk, wool, DNA cellulose and proteins.

                            However, there is always a disadvantage of frequently using different kinds of synthetic polymer or plastic especially if we don’t use it properly. As of now when we observe our environment we can see how crucial our surroundings are. Everyone knows that when it comes to plastic it will last long term /life, like others they said that we already dead or gone in this world but the plastics or polymer are still alive. That’s why we should have a responsibility to use it correctly and limited. Like nowadays the aquatic place, as we observed same of the seas., rivers, ponds, streams and lakes are almost dying specially those living species beneath the waters, they are losing homes, food to eat and soon, just because same of the people make it habit to throw garbage there without any  thinking that there are living organisms live under those aquatic place. Nevertheless, not only aquatic are gradually devastating nowadays, but also terrestrial place. It is really observable of what is happening in our environment or surroundings right now, because of negligence, irresponsibility and lacking of discipline of human being today we gradually feel the consequences we made. Like for instance, we are usually used plastic to buy foods or things and to make it as cover of your things we buy and suddenly when we are done using those kinds of polymers or rather we are no longer need those plastics, we have no idea but to throw it here, there, everywhere which is not good in our environment. There are times that they don’t know how to lose it in their specific place so there idea to burn it anyway, which is also not good in our environment. Everything we do wrong had always a consequence behind. So what we should do to prevent and improve our environment using synthetic polymer because we cannot say that we should extinct those things that have a synthetic polymers because even through there’s a lot of disadvantages, there is always an advantage; one of those examples are appliances; there are appliances that have a presence of synthetic polymers, computers, aircraft, fiber glass and many more. Therefore synthetic polymer is already part of our life. All we need to do is to learn how to use, recycle and reduce. Everything in this world has a limitation. We should know how to limit the use of different kinds of synthetic polymer. Learn to be creative not to be wasted.