01. Question:
How is plastic useful in healthcare industry?
Answer:
In healthcare, plastics are used
a. For packaging of tablets,
b. As threads for stitching wounds,
c. Doctor gloves,
d. In syringes, into food.
e. For making a number of medical instruments.
2. Question:
‘Avoid plastics as far as possible’. Comment on this advice
Answer:
Plastics are very useful, but it causes serious environmental and health concern:
a. Plastics are non-biodegradable.
b. Careless disposal of plastic bags, chokes, drains and blocks the soil.
c. If eaten by cows, it can kill them.
d. Plastic bags can also contaminate foodstuffs due to poisonous dyes getting absorbed
