Johnson announced the suspension of plastic cotton swab

The United Nations last year warned that a large number of empty bottles and clothes floating at sea, has become a serious threat to human health and marine environmental ecology, is now facing the world's most dangerous environmental problems. Under the initiative, there are a number of multinational companies committed to do not use plastic products, Johnson also follow up, announced the sale of plastic production of cotton swabs replaced by paper.

The Independent reported that the global plastic products increased rapidly, plastic production from 2004 to 2014 increased by 38%, but the recovery such as Styrofoam recycling did not keep up with the pace, so that many plastic particles were washed to marine. In 2010 it is estimated that about 4.8 million to 12.7 million tons of plastic in the sea, and finally ate by whales, plankton and other marine life.

Experiments show that the use of plastic instead of insects in the body 1% of the sediment, the ability of the worm to store energy with a negative impact. Last year, a study analyzed the fish bile sold in Indonesia and California, and found that more than a quarter of the fish contained plastic.

Scientists are afraid of chemical substances in plastics and chemical substances attached to plastic in the natural environment, which can lead to marine life poisoning, infertility and destruction of genetic, if a large number of human intake will suffer. The United Nations reported that the presence of micro-plastics in food could increase the direct exposure of plastics-related chemicals to humans and could pose a risk to human health.

To solve the problem of marine plastic pollution, Johnson & Johnson announced the sale of plastic production of cotton sticks, from the paper to produce. The British Marine Conservation Association pointed out that the cotton swab was the 6th largest common waste found on the British beach in 2016, mainly because people used to throw used cotton sticks into the toilet, causing the plastic to follow the sewer to pollute the ocean while the paper was made of cotton rods can be naturally decomposed to reduce pollution concerns.