For urban solid waste, plastic bags have become major items in the litter system. This has resulted in many detrimental environmental effects including animal choking, pollution, blockage of channels, rivers and streams, and landscape disfigurement. 

Plastic waste can block drains, which increases the risk of major flooding that leads to property damage and human displacement.1 Without waste management infrastructure improvements, the cumulative quantity of plastic waste available to enter the ocean from land is predicted to increase by an order of magnitude by 2025.3

Harmful Effects of Plastics Improper disposal of plastics poses a number of problems. Some of them are mentioned below: The littering of plastics in open spaces creates unhygienic conditions, as it acts as a breeding ground for insects and mosquitoes that cause diseases like malaria and dengue.