From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Daman and Diu to Dimapur. India is one united nation. Well our nation is in great danger of PLASTIC POLLUTION. One at the major contributors to this sorry state is the polythene carry bag that we use everywhere at home, in parks, while shopping etc. We simply throw it away when we don't need it or when it is torn or too worn out to be used. But that is the time when it starts showing its real character. Neither air nor water can pass through this material. Did you know that an empty pack of chips you throw away on the road will take hundreds of years to decay and decompose, it at all it decays and decomposes? How would you react to the news that a cow died because she had chewed and ingested too much of toxic plastic bags? Or to the news that our water bodies and sewerage pipes and drains are being choked with discarded plastic bags. Vast tracts of land are fast becoming barren because of the indiscriminate and unnecessary Polly bags. Choked drains are making our cities unhygienic, unhealthy and a breeding ground for deadly mosquitoes which cause diseases like malaria and dengue.

Even as the scientists are trying their best to develop environment friendly and biodegradable plastics, we can do a lot in protecting the environment from the menace of plastics. We should cut down the use at plastics. For example, while shopping, we should carry a cloth or jute bag and refuse to accept polythene bags. Another thing we can do is recycle virgin and low  grade plastics . Alternatives of plastics or environment friendly or biodegradable plastics should be promoted through tax sops.

No government or non-government organization can light a lone war against plastics and win it. What is needed is the people's army to knock cut this enemy of environment.