Existence of Hazard on Persistence of Plastic: A Study of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Abstract:Environment is getting degraded at an alarming rate in the twenty first century, whichleads to various issues like climate change, global warming, and el-Niño. There could becited n number of means that cause environmental deterioration wherein plastic plays such acrucial role. About 430 million tons of plastics are produced every year, 2:3 of which i.e. 280million tons of plastics are disposable plastic items which no sooner turn into waste. Theplastic wastes unlike others last for centuries together sans decomposing and vehementlyharm the nature as well. A significant portion of plastic wastes end up year on year at waterbodies like river, lake, and ocean that disturb the marine bio-diversity. Plastic remains to beone of the most pernicious things to the nature. Hence, the present study concentrates on howplastic became indispensable part of human life, what are the possible ways through whichplastics endanger the living species on earth, and systematic changes to curb the use ofplastics with restriction to Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.