What environmental problems are created in each of the four stages of a plastic product?

I would like to know what environmental problems are created in each of the four stages of a plastic product (design, production, consumption and end of life) ?


and which improvements can be made with those environmental problems?|||design-waste


production-low standards


consumption-misuse and trash


end of life-long cycle of decomposition|||1-Drill the oil (risk of spills)


2-Transport the oil (risk of spills)


3-Seperate the oil into useable parts (exhaust from industrial process)


4-Plastics formation and creation (industrial wastes)|||The USEPA Sector Notebook on Rubber and Plastic Manufacturing will have tons of information on production. The references on recycling will also give you information.|||when plastic is consumed, that makes the end of life. with this, enviornmental problem for the person who had end of life also is over!