A study to assess the knowledge of house wives regarding hazards of plastic and its safe disposal in an urban community

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Dhanalakshmi, B

Plastic is everywhere in today’s lifestyle. It’s used for packaging, protecting, serving, and even disposing of all kinds of consumer goods. Through industrial revolution mass production of goods started and plastic seemed to be a cheaper and effective raw material. Today, every vital sector of the economy starting from agriculture to packaging, automobile, building construction, communication or InfoTech has been virtually revolutionised by the applications of plastics.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2017. 2340.0004
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