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SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAN
SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAN
Introduction :- Single-use plastics, or disposable plastics, are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. These items are things like plastic bags, straws, coffee stirrers, soda and water bottles and most food packaging.
Harmful effects of single use plastics :-
Plastics can be defined as a integral part of our lives. This is because we use oplastics in various day to day lives. Be it from consuming water or disposing wastes , we rely on plastics.
But I would like to stress on single use plastics. Firstly single use plastics are the plastics which we dispose after using it. This lacks repeated usage of the plastic. For example the plastic straws and the packaging material used are single use plastics. We must try to recycle it , whereas have remained ineffective in doing so. The UN states that only 9% of the total plastic is being recycled. The remaining plastic is dumped in the landfills and the oceans. This will inturn effect us. This is because it distruptes the ecological balance of the environment. The marine life consume the plastic, and break it into micro plastic and store them in their tissues. When we consume sea food , it enters our body , leading to accumulation of harmful non- biodegradable substances in our body. This leads to diseases or disorders. When the plastic waste is dumped on land, it makes the land uncultivatable and needs high usage of chemicals. This will inturn effect the normal functionality of our bodies. All together harming the normal functioning of our bodies.
Single use plastic ban :-
We need to understand the various problems caused by the single use plastic. It is therefore obvious that we should stop using single use plastic items unless it is very necessary, and move towards environment friendly products and services. We should also come up with technologies that recycles plastics more efficiently so that plastic wastes are recycled and reused. It is our duty to stop using single use plastic to protect our planet, environment and human beings.
Governments initiative :-
Indian Government has laid out a multi-ministerial plan to discourage the use of single use plastics across the country to free India of single use plastics by 2022. The nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups, plates, water bottles, straws etc. has already began from October 2, 2019 to eliminate single use plastics from cities and villages that rank among the world's most polluted.
Conclusion :- In view of the above it is our responsibility towards our nature, planet and all living creatures to stop using single use plastic to enable them to be happy, healthy and prosperous.
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