Nylon in the future
Nylon will continue affect people's lives in the future but can be in a good or bad way, nylon will still be very useful in the future because of it's great properties and there might be new uses for nylon but it could still be replaced with other new materials that is better. Making nylon uses large amounts of water for cooling and this will use a large amount of energy.
Nylon is also bad for the environment, although nylon itself is have no damage on the environment or us but the process of making nylon does. During the process of manufacturing nylon a greenhouse gas called nitrous oxidea (310 times more potent than carbon dioxide) will form and since this substance is useless to the factories it is released into the atmosphere as waste. Nitrous oxide have a life time of 150 years so it will stay in our lower stratosphere destroying our ozone layer.
Another problem with nylon is related to it's thermal processing, during this process nylon could cause several health problems if someone breathe in the fumes or dusts, some of the problems include irritation of mucous membranes in the nose and throat, mechanical irritation of the eye and irritation of the skin.
The last problem with nylon is disposal, most of the used nylon products ended up in the landfills this is a problem because nylon takes a long time to break down and there will be build up of nylon products in the landfills. Therefore the most effective way of destroying nylon is burn it but this method will produce some harmful substances such as: carbon monoxide, ammonia, aliphatic amines, ketones, nitriles and hydrogen cyanide. Some of this substances may differ depending on environmental factors such as temperature, time of exposure, etc. These chemicals are not good for our own health or the environment for example:hydrogen cyanide, which is a gas just above room temperature, is highly poisonous.
Nylon is also bad for the environment, although nylon itself is have no damage on the environment or us but the process of making nylon does. During the process of manufacturing nylon a greenhouse gas called nitrous oxidea (310 times more potent than carbon dioxide) will form and since this substance is useless to the factories it is released into the atmosphere as waste. Nitrous oxide have a life time of 150 years so it will stay in our lower stratosphere destroying our ozone layer.
Another problem with nylon is related to it's thermal processing, during this process nylon could cause several health problems if someone breathe in the fumes or dusts, some of the problems include irritation of mucous membranes in the nose and throat, mechanical irritation of the eye and irritation of the skin.
The last problem with nylon is disposal, most of the used nylon products ended up in the landfills this is a problem because nylon takes a long time to break down and there will be build up of nylon products in the landfills. Therefore the most effective way of destroying nylon is burn it but this method will produce some harmful substances such as: carbon monoxide, ammonia, aliphatic amines, ketones, nitriles and hydrogen cyanide. Some of this substances may differ depending on environmental factors such as temperature, time of exposure, etc. These chemicals are not good for our own health or the environment for example:hydrogen cyanide, which is a gas just above room temperature, is highly poisonous.