Have you ever thought of plastic pollution? Where all this plastic go?.....How much plastic garbage is produced daily?
Plastic pollution is also referred to as “ White Pollution”, that has caused serious environmental problems. Plastic garbage pollute water, soil and even air, because they don’t break down naturally in the environment and therefore continue to exist and cause damage for hundreds of years. When plastic waste thrown into the ocean, it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces by exposure to the sun or other factors such as wave, sand action……those small particles contain toxic substances such as PCBs that are very harmful and eaten by marine animals, and then passed up humans through seafood. When tons of plastic garbage buried under the earth, again they are fragmented into smaller and smaller pieces, reaching microscopic size over time, remain everywhere and are almost impossible to clean up. They are light enough to be scattered by wind into the air and water and then absorbed by human body through breathing or eating.
Now, we can see how big is the problem…..but what should we do…..?
The best thing we can do is to reduce plastic consumption. Do you know that approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide annually? In other words, more than one million plastic bags are used every minute. We must take some action or we may drown in an ocean of plastics.
How to reduce plastic consumption:
Here, I wrote 3 ways to avoid excessive use of plastics, you can add it.
1. Don’t throw away a plastic bag after a single use, wash and reuse it several times.
2. Don’t use disposable plastic dishes, instead use metal or glass dishes.
3. Carry your to-go mug in your purse avoid using foam cups.
Comments
Hi Nishan!
Paper bags are 100% recyclable and biodegradable. Instead of using plastic bags, we should choose paper bags then we can help save the world. Thanks for your informative comment.
Hi Noas!
Recyclable bags are better choice to help the environment than plastic bags, if we change our behavior toward plastic consumption, it is a very effective step to protect the environment. Thanks for your informative comment.
Nice blog. Plastic pollution is a serious problems of the world. Developing country are most effected than development country because developing country haven't any recycling technology.Everyday we faced this kind of problem. plastic pollution created serious environmental problem like Air pollution,water pollution etc. Nowadays Mount Everest also polluted by plastic pollution. So we must STOP using plastic product and we all should BACK from 50 years ago....when and where no any Plastic product......
We have HUUUUUUGEEEEEE problem of wasted plastic bags, they have already choked drainage system of entire city...........in resulted health problem.................bag manufacturer mafia is too strong, feed some of the authorities under the table.....say they both are happy, but we are in problem.
Thanks for joining this month's challenge! I agree with your choice for the world's biggest problem. Microplastics are a huge problem. Thanks for including some useful tips to reduce the use of plastic!
Here are some useful podcasts on these topics:
Ocean Garbage
Banning Plastic Bags
plastic making many problems such as air pollution and also water pollution...it is non biodegradable thing.so it will cause plants and animals cause same time.it will reduce 02 content of soil.thatswhy plants canot grow properly its growth of roots also prevent by plastic material.Avoid plastics and use natural carry bags like paper.
Plastic pollution really becoming a threat to many marine wildlife as well as marine plants. As you said we should contribute our effort in reducing our dependency on plastic. For an example, rather than use plastic bags to carry our groceries, use recyclable grocery bags. Retail shops should use recyclable plastic bags if they have to.
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