Open plastic Banks and Impose Harsher Plastic Bans!
Open plastic Banks and Impose Harsher Plastic Bans!
The Issue
It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance.
As we all know, plastic is deleterious to the environment. We are choking the oceans by using plastic.
If you were to walk into a kitchen, sink overflowing, water spilling all over the floor, soaking into the walls, you had to think fast, you're going to panic; you've got a bucket, a mop or a plunger. What do you do first? Why don't we turn off the tap? It would be pointless to mop or plunge or scoop up the water if we don't turn off the tap first. Why aren't we doing the same for the ocean? Even if the Ocean Cleanup projects, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred per cent successful, it would still be too little, too late.
We're tending to produce over 300 million tons of plastic this year. Roughly eight million tons are racing to flow into the ocean to join the estimated 150 million tons already there. Reportedly, 80 per cent of ocean plastic is coming from those countries that have extreme poverty. And if you live in the grips of poverty concerned, always, about food or shelter or a sense of security, recycling -- it's beyond your realm of imagination. So, recycling of plastic in these countries is almost like a pipe dream.
A suitable solution is plastic banks where people can deposit the plastic they collect. The plastic banks can then sell it to other companies who use plastic to manufacture products. This way, plastic will be too valuable to be thrown away. Humans have produced over eight trillion kilograms of plastic, most of it still here as waste. Eight trillion kilograms. Worth roughly 5 rupees a kilo, we're potentially unleashing a forty-trillion-rupee value.
However, single use plastics cannot be used again. So, we need to enforce harsher bans on single use plastics. Also, the government should open government plastic banks.
Sign this petition and play your part in the fight against plastic pollution!
Share this to as many people as possible. Together, we can make a change.
Regards
Naman Panpalia
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The Issue
It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance.
As we all know, plastic is deleterious to the environment. We are choking the oceans by using plastic.
If you were to walk into a kitchen, sink overflowing, water spilling all over the floor, soaking into the walls, you had to think fast, you're going to panic; you've got a bucket, a mop or a plunger. What do you do first? Why don't we turn off the tap? It would be pointless to mop or plunge or scoop up the water if we don't turn off the tap first. Why aren't we doing the same for the ocean? Even if the Ocean Cleanup projects, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred per cent successful, it would still be too little, too late.
We're tending to produce over 300 million tons of plastic this year. Roughly eight million tons are racing to flow into the ocean to join the estimated 150 million tons already there. Reportedly, 80 per cent of ocean plastic is coming from those countries that have extreme poverty. And if you live in the grips of poverty concerned, always, about food or shelter or a sense of security, recycling -- it's beyond your realm of imagination. So, recycling of plastic in these countries is almost like a pipe dream.
A suitable solution is plastic banks where people can deposit the plastic they collect. The plastic banks can then sell it to other companies who use plastic to manufacture products. This way, plastic will be too valuable to be thrown away. Humans have produced over eight trillion kilograms of plastic, most of it still here as waste. Eight trillion kilograms. Worth roughly 5 rupees a kilo, we're potentially unleashing a forty-trillion-rupee value.
However, single use plastics cannot be used again. So, we need to enforce harsher bans on single use plastics. Also, the government should open government plastic banks.
Sign this petition and play your part in the fight against plastic pollution!
Share this to as many people as possible. Together, we can make a change.
Regards
Naman Panpalia
118
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Petition created on 13 December 2021