Our use of plastic bag has increased greatly. Earlier we used to go with our own cloth bag for vegetable shopping, but today we are habituated to get a plastic bag from the vegetable vendor, and with more variety of vegetable - higher the numbers of bag. Similarly we get bags from grocery stores and other places - without our demanding for it - this plastic bag has become our part of life.
This plastic bag build up in our house has also - found new routes to its discard - There has been a growing practice of filling our daily garbage in these bags and dumping them. Some time the waste is loosely filled and some time waste is tightly bound.
Have we ever wondered that our practice of green waste disposal in plastic bag is posing the biggest environmental threat. Generally the green waste can be converted into manure and plastic can be recycled. But when our green waste is filled inside these bags, it neither leaves green waste useful nor plastic recyclable. As can be seen from the picture, even animals find it difficult to eat the green waste.
So, next time when we use plastic bag.. let us think our its ultimate fate and make sure it is eco-friendly.
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