No Plastics Please!
Plastic is perhaps one of the worst chemical materials that humans have invented in recent decades. Plastic is generally non-biodegradable. Thus, it causes serious environmental problems and posts huge biological hazard to living organisms. A huge amount of plastic wastes is being created every day. The resulting pollution is destroying our ecosystem, with the ocean being one of the largest victims.
Plastic is being used worldwidely as it is cheap, easy to make ad long-lasting. However, plastic places great damage to the environment and people always dump them also because of its features, especially for the carry bags and disposable bottles.
Because of urbanization, pollution is mainly concentrated in cities. These materials are difficult to decompose, and will stay in the earth for many centuries. Hence the environment will be greatly polluted.
As synthetic polymers can be shaped into any figure, some are formed into thin films which can be made into enduring carrybags and packing materials. While these non-biodegradable materials are dumped, they persist in the soil without changing form.
As reported in the latest studies, there are 105 million tonnes of plastic produced per annum. People in India where only 2.5 million tonnes are produced use only 4 kg of plastic annually, while people in western and European countries use 70 kg annually. Nevertheless, the use of plastic is growing around the world.
Apart from that, the number of plastic waste in the ocean is also increasing. The majority of the objects found on the beaches are packaging materials and polymers.
This greatly ruins the life and habitat of marine life. Turtles and seabirds are the ones which bear the most. As you can see, plastic pollution is one of the most serious problems in the world, even greater than the problem of the ozone hole and global warming.
To keep away from this destructive threat, it is necessary not to use the non-biodegradable carry bags. Replacing any plastics in any places at anytime by durable and reusable jute bags and canvas bags can certainly help. In addition, manufacturing companies ought to use brown paper or other alternatives to pack and wrap cartons.