New Delhi: According to the World Count Facts, an online portal for facts, 5 trillion plastic bags are consumed every year – that’s 160,000 a second! To put this fact in perspective, if all the plastic bags consumed are stacked up it would cover an area twice the size of France. Why is this a problem? Well, a single bag of plastic takes around 1000 years to decompose completely, that means whatever plastic bags have been produced so far can still be found on the planet in some form. The result is that this huge accumulation of plastic bags harms the environment, end up choking our rivers, oceans, soil, water, and air. Not just that, use of plastic bags is one of the major reasons for marine life deaths. Around 100,000 marine creatures die every year from plastic entanglement and approximately 1 million seabirds die from eating plastic because plastic cannot be broken down by the digestive system in living beings.
On International Plastic Bag Free Day today, people on social media come out to urge people to give up on the use of this life-threatening object – Plastic Bags.
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Ashok Goel, Spokesperson of BJP said, “Plastics and polyethylene are fatal for the environment, instead opt for alternatives like cloth bags. Let us all pledge to contribute to protect the environment, by using less plastic.”
प्लास्टिक व पॉलीथिन पर्यावरण के लिए घातक है, इसकी जगह कपड़े से बने थैले या कैरी बैग का उपयोग करेंl आइये हम सब मिलकर प्लास्टिक का कम से कम उपयोग कर, पर्यावरण की रक्षा में अपना योगदान देने का संकल्प लेंl#InternationalPlasticBagFreeDay pic.twitter.com/uGl21HsJ0s
— Ashok Goel (@AshokGoelBJP) July 3, 2018
On the other hand, Paras Jain, Cabinet Minister of Madhya Pradesh reiterated the same fact and said,
“Plastic is harmful to our planet. On International Plastic Bag Free Day, I urge all of you to stop the use of one-time use plastic bags and switch to green alternatives.”
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प्लास्टिक पर्यावरण के लिए घातक है,
आप सभी से निवेदन है कि एक बार उपयोग होने वाले प्लास्टिक बैग का प्रयोग पूरी तरह से बंद कर कपडे की थैलियों का प्रयोग करेंl प्लास्टिक का कम से कम उपयोग कर, पर्यावरण की रक्षा में अपना योगदान देने का संकल्प लेंl#InternationalPlasticBagFreeDay pic.twitter.com/4oEa4gObL0— Paras Jain (@parasjainonline) July 3, 2018
A person from Gujarat appealed everyone to stop the use of plastic bags and switch to green alternatives like Jute bags, cotton bags, and compostable eco-friendly polythene bags.
#InternationalPlasticBagFreeDay कई वास्तविक और दबाव उत्पन्न करने वाले मुद्दों के प्रति जागरूकता बढ़ाने के लिए समर्पित है एक छोटा सा पॉलिथीन बैग हमारे वातावरण को बहुत अधिक हानि पहुँचाता है l पॉलिथीन बेग का इस्तेमाल ना करके प्राकृतिक प्रदूषण को रोकने में अपना सहयोग प्रदान करे ! pic.twitter.com/JyxXphrKE0
— Manji Ahir (@manji_ahir) July 3, 2018
Another citizen said, “It is high time we all create a plastic-free world”
It’s high time to create a Plastic Bag Free World! Say No To Plastic Bags.Lets Celebrate International Plastic Bag Free Day to save the world.#InternationalPlasticBagFreeDay #NOPlastic pic.twitter.com/HOGLhwefGj
— Bhupeshwardayal (@bhupeshwardayal) July 3, 2018
Here are some other messages with an appeal to break free from plastics
Say No to Plastic Bags!#InternationalPlasticBagFreeDay pic.twitter.com/K6sD7k0y67
— a r u n (@arunsenapathyr) July 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/123dhingra/status/1013983113364422658
International Plastic Bag Free Day is celebrated every year on July 3 with an aim to spread awareness about the ill effects of using plastic bags on the environment.
