Seech on awareness to plastic ?
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Dear Society Members and all the loving children – Warm Good Evening to all of you!
First of all, welcome to the society club house and a huge thank you for making it here on such a short notice. The reason behind calling this society meeting is to inform you about the visit of the municipality authorities today in our society, who carefully inspected our surroundings. The authorities are likely to pay such surprise visits in other neighboring societies as well. Essentially, they are urging people to maintain their surroundings as well as keep them clean and green. There is also a strong cry to completely ban the use of plastic because plastic pollution is yet another worse form of pollution which severely affects our environment.
In fact, this year’s theme for the World Environment Day is “Beat Plastic Pollution”. It calls for action from each one of us and urges us to tactically handle this grave environmental challenge which is posed before us. Our country was the host for this year’s World Environment Day and the theme was chosen by us so as to send out a strong message to everyone how favorable changes can be made in our day to day lives where the excessive burden of plastic pollution could be removed from our immediate surroundings, natural sights, our wildlife and from our very own daily activities.
I am not denying the usefulness of plastic, but we have become too much dependent on the use of plastic which has some really serious consequences to follow. Globally, about one million drinking bottles of plastic are being bought every minute and every year up to five trillion disposable plastic bags are used up. If we look at it as a whole, then about 50 percent of the plastic which is in circulation offers only one time use.
Approximately one third of the packaging in plastic tends to escape collection system which implies that it ends up choking our city roads thereby polluting our natural surroundings. It is witnessed that every year nearly 13 million tons of plastic is dumped into the oceans where it chokes coral reefs and poses a grave threat to the vulnerable aquatic wildlife. The plastic which is found in the oceans can surround our planet earth 4 times in one year and it can last for about 1,000 years before breaking down completely.
Plastic also tends to contaminate our water supply and thus our water bodies. It causes a serious harm because plastic is made up of different chemicals many of which are toxic and disrupt hormonal balance. Plastics also act as a magnet for other contaminants, such as metals, dioxins and pesticides.
Friends, it is therefore highly advisable to completely shun the use of plastic and save our environment from pollution. Also, encourage others, especially your children and people in your immediate surroundings to switch to environment-friendly products and absolutely say ‘no’ to plastics.
This is all I have to say, thank you!
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