write letter to editor of newspaper highlighting about danger of plastic and suggestions to deal with plastic
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To
The Editor,
xxx editions ltd.,
India 522001
From
xxx,
Educationist,
Santa Maria Schools,
New Delhi,
India 46676
Date: 8th April, 2019
Subject: Improper disposal of plastic carry bags
Dear Sir,
I am writing to encourage people in our community to join Citizens against ruining the Environment. I think it is high time we should care to ban the use of plastic bags for our daily usage purposes.
Research proves that only a small per cent of the plastic bags are recycled, although collection bins are available for plastic bag recycling at some major grocery stores. Plastic bags take 1,000 years to photo-degrade (break into smaller and smaller pieces). Every year, 15 billion pounds of plastic are produced in the U.S., but only 1 billion are recycled.
Anyone who has driven past farmer’s fields in our area, and other natural areas, or in their own community has seen fields littered and despoiled by plastic bags caught in bushes. Besides being unsightly, plastic bags kill wildlife when they fly into woods, streams, the Great Lakes and oceans. Small pieces of plastic are eaten by birds and fish and enter the food chain right into you.
Alternatives to plastic disposable shopping bags include the use of cloth bags, which last years before they fall apart. If the paper bags are made from 100 per cent recycled paper, then trees are not cut down to make the paper bags.
I request you to encourage our community to use paper bags or carry their own cloth bags. Request you to develop schemes like, incentives to customers who bring their own bags, stores could give customers a raffle ticket for a chance to win a store gift card. This would encourage our community to develop a better quality of life.
Hoping that you would take the necessary action in educating people as we believe that you are one of the most influential source of conveying to the public.
Thanking you Sir.
Yours Sincerely,
xxx