Plastic Menace

Every year, more than 50 billion plastic water bottles are sold worldwide. Of these, only 23% of the bottles are picked up for the recycling process. This means that more than 38 billion plastic bottles end up in landfills around the globe. This generates a huge amount of plastic waste. Plastic bottles are not bio-degradable. The plastic bottle environmental impact is immense. A single water bottle takes more than 1000 years to decompose naturally. It remains on this planet for hundreds of years and leaves a lasting impact on our plant and animal life, and water bodies. Water bottle pollution is a serious environmental concern. Most of the water bottles used are not recycled properly. The discarded plastic bottles are washed away from the shore and end up in our rivers and oceans. Plastic bottle caps are not recyclable and often end up at the bottom of the ocean. Environmentalists say that very soon there will be more quantities of plastic in the oceans than fishes. Th...

Plastic bottles are such kind of goons who are responsible for the ocean’s most pressing environmental problems. We do understand that around the world there are many places where these plastic bottles are the only medium of transporting water and here one bottle is reused countless times. But this is not considered as the actual cause of pollution the major issue is when 6 packaged plastic bottles are bought only one gets reused and the rest 5 of them are being thrown in the oceans or end up in landfills. Plastics take a lifetime to decompose, but within this lifetime it causes massive destruction and menace to the environment and its living beings. In our daily lives, everyone uses plastic materials because we all think that these small little things have made our lives much simpler than ever, but we are not at all aware that these little things especially the plastic bottles are creating quite a mess in the world and causing a menace all over. There are millions of effects of ...

According to a 2017 news report in The Guardian, the annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by the year 2021. It also said that around the world, a million plastic bottles are bought in one minute. These are scary numbers. With such huge amount of plastic bottles being used, it is very difficult to recycle and reuse each of these bottles. As a result, most plastic bottles end up in landfills or in the ocean. Environmentalists say that very soon, the ocean is going to have more plastic than fishes. Being responsible citizens living on this beautiful planet, it is our duty to reduce plastic bottle pollution wherever we can. One easy way to keep plastic bottle pollution in check is to reduce their usage in our daily lives. It is important to create awareness of plastic bottle effects among today’s generation. If more people know about their harmful effects on the environment, it can be hoped that more people will start reducing the use of plastics in their...