SINGLE USE PLASTIC AND ITS BAD EFFECTS

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SEAHORSE cleaning his ears

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Most of you will find this image little funny but picture contains very deep message as we all know what is the impact of Single use plastic in our environment.
This picture seems like SEAHORSE going to clean his ears but reality is totally different.


Throughout its whole life from birth to death human only know how to waste environment in very best possible way. Everything has its limit but human contribution towards giving birth to the problems either to itself or to the other contributing things like Animals, plants has no limits.

We are in very bad situation were instant reactions to the cause of polluting environment is mandatory.
Single-use plastics, often also referred to as disposable plastics, are commonly used for plastic packaging and include items intended to be used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. These include, among other items, grocery bags, food packaging, bottles, straws, containers, cups and cutlery.

Since the 1950s, the production of plastic has outpaced that of almost every other material. Much of the plastic we produce is designed to be thrown away after being used only once. As a result, plastic packaging accounts for about half of the plastic waste in the world. Most of this waste is generated in Asia, while America, Japan and the European Union are the world’s largest producers of plastic packaging waste per capita.

The most common single-use plastics found in the environment are, in order of magnitude, cigarette butts, plastic drinking bottles, plastic bottle caps, food wrappers, plastic grocery bags, plastic lids, straws and stirrers, other types of plastic bags, and foam take-away containers. These are the waste products of a throwaway culture that treats plastic as a disposable material rather than a valuable resource to be harnessed.

The economic damage caused by plastic waste is vast. Plastic litter in the Asia-Pacific region alone costs its tourism, fishing and shipping industries $1.3 billion per year. In Europe, cleaning plastic waste from coasts and beaches costs about €630 million per year. Studies suggest that the total economic damage to the world’s marine ecosystem caused by plastic amounts to at least $13 billion every year. The economic, health and environmental reasons to act are clear.




                       
A VERY DISTURBING IMAGE SHOWING HOW MUCH AMOUNT OF PLASTIC A WHALE SWALLOWED THAT IT LEAD TO THE DEATH......HARSH BUT TRUE WE HUMANS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE BAD GLOBAL ISSUES.






 This graph shows consumption of plastic in 5 decades.









WHAT MEASURES ARE TAKEN VOLUNTARILY OR BY GOVERNMENT

FIGURES SHOWING TOTAL WASTE
  • Since October 2015, Afroz Shah has inspired thousands of volunteers to join what he calls weekend “dates with the ocean”. Shah started mobilizing residents by knocking on doors and explaining the damages caused by marine litter.
  • Over two years, using their hands, tractors and diggers, the volunteers have removed 13,000 tons of waste, mostly plastics. This year, for the first time in over two decades, the nesting and hatching of Olive Ridley turtles, a vulnerable turtle species, has taken place on Versova beach.
       SINGLE USE PLASTIC IS BAN BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA  

          WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SOLVE SERIOUS PROBLEM

  • Waste management system design to reduce landfilling and illegal dumping.
  • Overview of a circular economy.
  • Promotion of eco-friendly alternatives.
  • Social awareness and public pressure.
  • Voluntary reduction strategies and agreements.

                 AVOID SINGLE USE PLASTIC                                               SAVE WORLD
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