Remediation of Water Pollution by Plastics

The global production of plastic has raised to 330 billion tons per year, which is a huge concern in terms of environmental crisis and health issues. Currently there are no devised mechanisms available on industrial scale and in nature by which plastics can be degraded completely into harmless residues. Water constitutes two-thirds of the planet, and almost 70–80% of it is polluted by plastic debris. Marine organisms are facing alarming situations and awful scenarios due to the water pollution caused by plastics. Micro- and macroplastics are the main entities involved in polluting the water bodies, which besides the generation of different health issues are a direct threat to the destruction of natural habitats to marine and fresh water flora and fauna. Human activities, industrialization, and population burst in recent years has contributed to high demands of plastics for the manufacturing of different products most of which end up in oceans and fresh water bodies resulting in their pollution.