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Say "No" to Polythene Bags !!!
- Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh
Writer, Author & Social Activist
Blogger - "Climate Diary Of Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh"
According to the Central Pollution Control Board, 690 tones of plastic waste is dumped in Delhi every day, 429 tones in Chennai, 426 tones in Kolkata, 408 tones in Mumbai. The figures for small towns may be slightly lower but the dangers are not less. Dioxin gas released by burning in the waste of polythene bags is extremely toxic. It not only affects the health of humans, but also affects the health of animals, birds and plants. It blocks the drains and brings them to the flood. Now saying 'no' to such a bad thing has to be done.
It is true that the Polythene Bags are lighter to carry but it is also true that they are "heavy" to be impossible to dispose of. They litter the
environment. When polythene bags are burned, they produce toxic fumes and pollute the air. On the land and in the marine, animals swallow plastic bags
with food, and die. Even after animal bodies decompose, the plastic bags stay intact, and another animal gets hurt by eating them.
People like to use polythene bags too much because they did not know its bad effects. Polythene is made by an organic compound that can never be destroyed. Some people go to the market and bring items in polythene bags because they feel the same as taking the bag in hand. Perhaps they don’t know this polythene may be because of many diseases. People think polythene bags are most convenient and inexpensive so some people do the business of polythene bags.
We know how to use polythene bags, not how to dispose of them properly. A few years ago, plastic bags and bottles
blocked the flow of drains and half the city of Mumbai was in the grip of floods. Every monsoon, every city is just a step away from the disaster with polythene bags and plastic bottles blocking the drainage.
Polythene is made with an organic compound that can never be destroyed. This means that the plastic cannot decompose. They persisted for many years, even decades. It is harmful to humans and animals. Plastic can cause many diseases in humans as well as in animals. It affects soil fertility strength. It is extremely harmful because it is non-degradable. If we throw waste polythene in the field, drains and gutters will also be choked by the polythene. When the drains and gutters choke its hamper flow of sewage, this is harmful to our daily life. We should remember that if polythene is stray, the intestine will be choked and the animal would die. The death toll of cows that died due to eating polythene bags is huge. In the last four years alone, in one state of North India, 1000
animals have died due to eating polythene bags with garbage. Dioxin gas released by burning in the waste of
polythene bags is extremely toxic. It not only affects the health of humans, but also affects the health of animals, birds and plants.
Vinisha Umashankar, a 15-year-old Indian schoolgirl studying in Tamil Nadu, said in her speech at the COP-26 conference that "I am not only the girl of India but I am the daughter of this earth.
Me and my generation today are grateful for your actions. Will live to see the results. Yet none of what we discuss today is practical for me. You are
deciding whether we have a chance to live in a habitable world. We deserve to fight or not; it's time to stop talking and start working." Vinisha's call to save the earth was for every nation, every citizen.
If we can stop throwing a plastic bag here and there on the road, then suppose we
have taken a step towards protecting the climate. And, by saying no to the use of polythene bags will lead a big step to save the environment and the climate.
We may remember the time when we used cloth bags for shopping. Today in our daily life we depend on polythene bags for carrying goods. But at the same time the symbol of modernity is that our "mall culture" avoids the "synthetic-culture" of polythene bags and it provides a "safe culture" of cloth and paper bags. It is a really cool way to carry the goods.
We can make cloth bags from old sheets or old covers or we can make "eco friendly" bags from "paper mesh" or paper found in emporiums. The "bags" thus created can also provide employment and can also contribute immensely in reducing the demand for "polythene" polluting
the society. We need to stop its harmful effects. By adopting hand or paper bags, accepting its features, will have to be brought into practice once again and strictly say 'NO' to the use of polythene bags to ourselves.
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(26.12.2021)
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