Question

Write a letter to the editor of Hindustan Times expressing your concern about environmental and health hazards caused by increased usage of single use plastic in today’s world in not more than 100-120 words. You are Kartik/Karthika, a resident of CDA sector 8, Cuttack.​

Answer 1

Answer:

While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become addicted to single-use or disposable plastic — with severe environmental consequences.

Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once — and then thrown away.

Plastic waste is now so ubiquitous in the natural environment that scientists have even suggested it could serve as a geological indicator of the Anthropocene era.

So how did we get here?