Reduce or never use

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Let us close our eyes and imagine the following situations;

          Situation 1: You are riding your vehicle and a gush of wind passes? What do you see and what happens around you?

       Situation 2: You have a very clean house, where you duly clean your house and make sure the garbage is surrendered to the garbage collector everyday.What happens to the garbage after that?

         These are few of the most common situations we come across every day but have no clue on what follows.

           In the 1^st situation, the gush of wind will make sure all the particles coming its way are carried away. The first culprit will be nothing but plastic covers directly making its way to the roadside drains blocking the drainage system in every possible way. But do we care?

           In the 2^nd Situation, the garbage will be dumped in dump yards and either incinerated or left uncared. But in both ways the tragedies are equal and the worst part is the waste we throw away daily never reduce or deteriorate as major percentage of our garbage is nothing but plastic.

          The cruelties we do to our mother earth shall be best understood by travelling in MRTS from Chennai Beach for at least 2 stations. What was once a dream journey for many just by enjoying the top view of the city has reduced to nothing but a harsh realty of Coovum river and the adjoining places completely covered by blanket of plastic throwaways. One could see nothing but a heap of plastic scattered all the way along the stretch of the River.

          Results show that 70% of the garbage contains plastic. Does that mean we do not use anything else? Definitely not. The answer is among all the products we use this is the one which is easily thrown away which precisely explains the worth of a plastic product. Let us imagine, we have a fountain pen and a Ball point pen. Which one is worth the money and long lasting? That is definitely not the one being thrown away first.

          We have trained our minds that “easy” is the new ”trend” but that is not the case. Any product's efficiency shall be rated only with the impact it brings to the environment. One may find it extremely unconvincing on how people's contribution can bring a change when the government keep promoting corporates endorsing plastic. But let us not forget that “A journey of 1000 miles begin with a single step”

     Statistics claim that an average family uses 60 plastic bags in just 4 visits to a supermarket. Imagine if we were able to bring it to half we will be doing a major contribution towards change. This is just one example, there are so many ways where we could bring down the over usage to at least limited usage. There is no such thing as recycle when it comes to plastic. It has to be either reduce or never use at all.

          The first step towards glory is minimizing the use of plastic in our daily life and reusing the already available plastic until it becomes completely unusable and promoting other value added products like paper & palm instead of plastic. And most importantly let us reduce the over consumerism of plastic goods.