Since 22nd April, 2018, the World Earth Day, we have not thrown plastic items in the garbage bin instead we rescued them because the recycling system is not too great in the city. This is the amount of plastic that @ArchitOjha and I were able rescue from going into dustbin, filling the landfills or worst becoming cereal for marine animals.
Plastic pollution has been a threat to almost all the living and non-living beings. Every step matters in its reduction, removal or recycling. In fact, less recycling should be the goal.
We have refused many plastic items but some of them were inevitable. We are still learning. @ArchitOjha had helped me immensely in this process. We will go out and refuse, refuse plastic items and much more.
We shifted to a metal water bottle and my life changed since then. It was expensive at first, but in a long run, it has been good for us and the environment. We are not a fan of plastic straws so removing that was not a problem.
We observed our plastic consumption and thanks mostly to fast food items that contributed majorly to the bin. We were able to identify the culprit and reduce it as much as we could.
At first, we thought that making decorative items out of the collection would be a solution but that doesn’t seem to work. There are a lot of cows and dogs who feed on these plastic items outside my building an we don’t want that. About the recycling process in our city, we are not so sure because no matter how much you separate wet and dry garbage, they end up on the same truck, sitting together, sad. The garbage is thrown in the landfills. Every day, nearly 5 trucks of garbage fill the land in front of my university and lots of cows, dogs and buffaloes feed on them.
Another World Earth Day will be coming next month and we want to ask the Local Guides what can we do about the garbage that we collected over nearly 1 year because storing this forever is not in our option.
Thank you @ArchitOjha for your Post on this issue.
