Plastic Waste
Farhan Akhtar Joins #SayNoToPlastic Campaign Says, ‘Do Your Bit And Together We Can Have A Healthier Planet’
The actor also announced that the usage of plastic bottles will be cut down to zero in the offices and films sets of Excel Entertainment, the studio Farhan started with Ritesh Sidhwani almost 20 years ago
New Delhi: Actor and Director, Farhan Akhtar urged his fans to join the #SayNoToPlastic movement in order to make a Swachh and healthy India. Posting a picture with a re-usable bottle on his social platforms, the actor said, ‘Say no to plastic! My own personal re-usable water bottle for when I’m on sets.”
With a hope that people will join him in this plastic-free campaign, Farhan Akhtar added,
A little is a lot. Do your bit and together, we can have a healthier planet. #savetheenvironment #saynotoplastic.
The actor also announced that from now on the usage of plastic bottles will be cut down to zero in the offices and films sets of Excel Entertainment, a film studio based in Mumbai that was started by Farhan Akhtar, and Ritesh Sidhwani in 1999.
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Farhan Akhtar is not alone to join the plastic-free movement, earlier this year actors Dia Mirza, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Diana Penty, Jackky Bhagnani, Aditi Rao Hydari and Ali Fazal M took to social media to show their support for #SayNoYoPlastic movement.
Currently, a million plastic bottles are being bought around the world every minute and this number is expected to jump to another 20% by 2021. The scientists predict that today every square mile of oceans contains about 46,000 pieces of floating plastic. As a result, every single year, approximately 1 million birds, and 100,000 whales, sharks, seals, dolphins and turtles die due to the plastic pollution.
According to Euromonitor International’s global packaging trends report in 2016, more than 480 billion plastic drinking bottles were sold across the world, as opposed to 300 billion a decade ago. If these bottles are placed end to end, then these would extend more than halfway to the sun.
So there is an urgent need to wage a battle against plastic and that needs to start now. How do you intend to end your toxic relationship with plastic, tell us in the comments box below.
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Ayesha
March 27, 2018 at 7:24 pm
It is great that celebrities are using their fame and reach to spread awareness on these critical issues. Their actions should spur the common man into choosing more responsibly. However, much of what the common man is able to do is (largely) constrained by market forces. So, along with a grass-roots revolution with respect to socially and environmentally conscious consumer choices, we also need simultaneous restrictions on industries that flood markets with s**t like plastic packaging. How can this be done? Can the celebrities throw their weight behind the movement to curtail such industries and hold them accountable for their role in the mess?