Plastic Menace

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...

Plastic is a versatile material that is a chap and durable and is easily available. This is why the material is used for various purposes and it has replaced material because it is quite lightweight too. But are these features enough to make plastic one of the most vital materials that can be replaced with any other material? Perhaps no, because it is not easily decomposed and has oodles of toxins that can act as a slow poison to the living beings. One of the most dangerous environmental hazards that are damaging the environment is plastic bottle pollution . Every day, we use many plastic bottles for water and other beverages. These plastic bottles are made of unsafe toxins and chemicals, which is harmful even when you are using it for the first time. We tend to buy small bottles and throw them away as plastic litter. This plastic garbage is rarely recycled, and end up as landfills, making the land barren. Often, this plastic litter mixes up with underground water, making...