ESSAY ON SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAN
The plastics and other debris are choking our oceans and waterways. We all have heard the horrifying prediction that by year 2050, there will be more plastic floating in the ocean than fish. Use paper straws instead of plastic straw. Collapsible cups should be used instead of some single use plastic cups. Carry a reusable bag instead of plastic bags.
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What is Single-Use Plastic?
Plastic products are designed and made to be used for one time and are supposed to be thrown after use. They are disposable items like plastic bottles, bottle caps, food wrappers, straws, polythene bags, etc.
What is the need to ban?
1. Because of the harmful gases they produce.
2. Inability to decompose
3. Soil Contamination
4. Health Hazards it poses
5. Environmental Pollution
Harmful effects of Plastic
Plastic is harmful to the environment, animals, humans and the entire composition of the earth including air, water, greenery, living beings. As per the world wildlife fund (WWF) It is a non-biodegradable product and it takes years to disintegrate. It is next to impossible to decompose it as the process takes thousands of years.
This gets collected on the earth in the form of debris and wreckage and contaminates the soil.
The chemicals used to produce plastic are very harmful and keep on getting transmitted to animal tissues and the human food chain.
Birds and animals often take the debris of plastic bags and wrappers as food in confusion and become a victim of fatal health hazards.
It goes to fish in thousands of tons of quantity and from there reaches the food chain to marine mammals. According to scientists a large amount of plastic has been found in the intestine of oceanic mammals which reaches the human chain causing fatal diseases like cancer in humans.
WWF claims that a person could be consuming 5 grams of plastic a week. It can kill 1 million seabirds every year and around 700 species around the world get affected because of it.
According to a UN Plastic collective report an estimated 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced since the early 1950s and is still disturbing the land and its dwellers because of hazardous noxious effects.
According to a report India alone generates 9.46 tonnes of plastic waste every year. Out of which 40% remains uncollected. This has hazardous effects not just on human health rather for the whole environment.
The decision to ban Plastic
The country prepared itself for the new rules as One India – Pollution Free India. Almost every state tried to put a curb on the use of plastic and search has been going on to find an alternative to plastic usage.
About 18 States Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat have banned 'one-time use and throw away plastic items' like cutlery, plates, cups, straws, etc.
Sikkim initiated this ban in 1998. A major landslide in the state occured because of heavy rainfall. This forced the state Government to ban single-use plastic, as according to experts Plastic waste blocked the system.To implement the policy the government in the state ran educative campaign to educate the people ,fines were imposed for using plastic to stop its usage.All these steps helped the citizens of the state to accept this ban.
Across the country, for the time being the government asked the states to put a stop on storing, manufacturing and using some single-use plastic products such as polythene bags.
As of now the government is promoting voluntary steps by educating the people. Very strict actions are yet not being taken.
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Essay on ban of single use plastic:
We produce millions of tons of single use plastic every year, most of which cannot be recycled. Single use plastic includes plastic bags, polythene, straws, plastic glass, soda and water bottles and food packaging items etc. These single use plastics are used only once and then thrown away as a garbage for recycle.
Plastic bags or plastics are non biodegradable and usually goes into a landfill where it is buried or it gets into the water and after some by various means it goes into the ocean. They enter into soil and water bodies and break down into small particles however they do not decompose. They remain in the soil and water for more than hundred years and release toxic chemicals and thus damaging our beautiful planet and environment. The plastic bags that enter the water bodies are a major cause of the water pollution and thus deteriorating our environment in every possible way.
Single use plastic is very harmful for human beings, animals and marine creatures. In the water bodies or in marine aquatic animals consume plastic particles along with their food. Plastic cannot be digested and thus gets trapped in their intestine and results in serious health problems.
The production of plastic bags that is single use plastic releases toxic chemicals that can cause serious illness among those involved in the production of it. Plastic is one of the major causes of environmental pollution. Polluted environment is a major cause of various diseases in human beings
We need to understand the problems being caused by the single use plastic and stop their use. It is therefore obvious that we need to use less plastic unless it is very necessary, move towards environment friendly products and services and should come up with technologies that recycles plastics more efficiently. We should stop using single use plastic to protect our planet, environment and human beings