- Nikhil KR

- 1BG18CS073
 Plastic is a material made to last forever, yet 33
percent of all plastic - water bottles, bags and
straws - are used just once and thrown away.
Plastic cannot biodegrade; it breaks down into
smaller and smaller pieces.
 Toxic chemicals leach out of plastic and are
found in the blood and tissue of nearly all of
us. Exposure to them is linked to cancers,
birth defects, impaired immunity, endocrine
disruption and other ailments.
 There are thousands of landfills in India.
Buried beneath each one of them, toxic
chemicals from plastics drain out and seep
into groundwater, flowing downstream into
lakes and rivers.
 Wildlife become entangled in plastic, they eat
it or mistake it for food and feed it to their
young, and it is found littered in even
extremely remote areas of the Earth. In our
oceans alone, plastic debris outweighs
zooplankton by a ratio of 36-to-1.
 Indians discard more than 30 million tons of
plastic a year. Only 8 percent gets recycled. The
rest ends up in landfills, is burned or becomes
litter.
 Everything suffers: tourism, recreation,
business, the health of humans, animals, fish
and birds—because of plastic pollution. The
financial damage continuously being inflicted
is inestimable.
 Plastic is made of petroleum, a valuable but
non-renewable & harmful fossil fuels.
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14
12
10
8
Plastic Used
6 Plastic Dumped
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2
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North Africa Asia Europe Ocean
America
 The next time you choose to step out with a
plastic bag in your hands, chances are you
could be facing a Rs 500 fine. Three years
after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
Palike (BBMP) enforced a plastic ban in the
city, the civic agency is now gearing up to
enforce it with the help of technology.
 Forced to Pay
more for Plastic
containers than
the inventory
they carry!

Drastic
Decrease in the
use of one time
plastic
containers.

Reduction of Additional
Plastic Accumulation in
the Ecosystem.
 A world without Plastic is magnificent!