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To all those of you who go out to enjoy yourselves - please do not be litterbugs - particularly "Plastic Pests".

Plastics- bane or bane?

Plastics- bane or bane? No, Mi` ladies - that was not a printer`s devil - the choice is obvious - plastics cannot be considered a boon. True, there are hi-grade plastics that seem indispensable to the aeronautical and automobile industries. However, in the daily life of the average person, plastics do prove to be a bane.

• Only 60% of plastic products manufactured in our country are recycled and put to alternative use.

• The remaining 40% - particularly carry bags, disposable cups and plates are discarded at random and find their way into the soil causing environmental hazards.

• Use of plastic bags for food causes health hazards to human beings.

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• Only 60% of plastic products manufactured in our country are recycled and put to alternative use.

• The remaining 40% - particularly carry bags, disposable cups and plates are discarded at random and find their way into the soil causing environmental hazards.

• Use of plastic bags for food causes health hazards to human beings.

• Leftover food discarded in plastic bags are consumed by cattle and dogs along with the thin plastic, often causing death.

• Plastic bags flung into open drains and sewers clog the system and cause innumerable health hazards and increase mosquito population by stagnation of dirty water.

• Disposable syringes, drip bottles, blood and urine bags and other medical accessories when disposed off in an irresponsible manner cause serious health problems.

• Plastic waste does not decay for several decades. Hence, it reduces the porosity of the soil, clogs it and upsets the ground water balance prevalent in nature.

• Burning of plastics causes infertility in humans.

Indiscriminate use and disposal of plastic products are a BANE TO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT.

3 things we can do

• Avoid the use of thin plastic carry bags.
• Avoid the use of disposable plastic cups and plates.
• Switch over to cloth, jute, paper and glass products.

The choice to be environment friendly is ours so that we have a clean, green, healthy earth to bequeath to posterity.