Say No To Plastics
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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 prevalent nowadays due to its nature: cheap, easy-making and long lasting. However, people dump it quickly because it is cheap. Materials like carry bags and disposable bottles are thrown away regularly.
Since plastic is long lasting and non-biodegradable, it stays on our planet for a very long time. The pollution that it causes is centralized in urban areas due to the rapid growth of urbanization.
Apart from plastics, as synthetic polymers can be easily shaped, which can be made into thin films as bits and pieces. They are used to produce durable and disposable carry bags and packaging. Similar to plastics, these materials are non-biodegradable, and will remain in the same form when thrown out after using it.
According to the latest statistics, the world's annual output of plastics comes to approximately 105 million tonnes and is continued to be rising. In particular, a person from the western and European countries uses 70 kg of plastics per year on average. In contrast, India appears to be a greener country with its annual output being 2.5 million tonnes and annual per-capita use being 4 kg only.
There is more and more plastic waste in the ocean, nearly 85% of stuff consists of traces of polymers were found on the beaches. And these rubbish found mostly is packaging materials.
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.
In order to protect ourselves from this deadly danger, we should use enduring and reusable jute bags or canvas bags instead of non-biodegradable carry bags. In the case of manufacturing companies, they should use other substitutes such as brown papers for packaging and wrapping. As for supermarkets, they should use paper bags or jute bags instead of plastic bags.
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