Discard Plastic Burning: A Serious Risk Factor in Dehradun, India

  • Karn S
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Background: Dehradun, India is going to most exceedingly influencing and breaking down air quality due to the burning of the discarded plastic, where the natural beauty is the prized component. Carelessly threw the disposed of plastic and burning affecting the environment and people’s health drastically. Consequently, various sicknesses and disease are the common phenomenon. Thus, this region urgently required an extensive evaluation by the governmental and non-governmental organization to solve this issue and make a strict control to stop the plastic on every day utilize premise. Their people groups endure much because of their own activity. Objectives: Current study report about the environmental and public health concern due to the discard plastic burning on daily basis which causes severe respiratory disease and health hazards. Methods: The current study focused on the observation and collection of plastic burning activities done by the people of on daily basis in the last three year from August 2017 to July 2020. Results: As regularly as conceivable it can be found in every 20 houses there are cluster plastics burning on daily basis. Burnt Plastic, releasing lethal gases into the environment which include substances like dioxins, furans, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls which is a hazardous compound and conceivably hurting to all kind of life. Dehradun, India is emerging as a hotspot for the broken air quality especially due to burning of discard plastic in this region and introducing smoke into the atmosphere. Due to this, numbers of affected people are increasing an everyday basis. This broken air quality is also responsible for greenhouse gases (GHG) and increasing global warming potential. Conclusions: Finally, I might want to focus this area move toward becoming a hotspot to look with crumbled air quality from the last couple of years. Numbers of multiple illnesses affected peoples increasing year by year. The level of dangerous compound increasing in the atmosphere, in this way it is needful to take preparatory measure to make strict regulation and develop treatment facility to save Dehradun. As this region is like a gift by nature.

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Karn, S. K. (2021). Discard Plastic Burning: A Serious Risk Factor in Dehradun, India. International Journal of Health and Life Sciences, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.5812/ijhls.106015

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