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The problem within our Clothes   _____________________________________ Image source: The story of stuff project It’s a widely known truth that most of the plastic products that we consume today end up in our water bodies. In the era of washing machines, much little is known or paid attention to about the problems created due to it. That our clothes are one of the major contributors to the plastic problem is not known to all and in this blog, I share some facts on the microfibers that come out of our clothes every time we wash and what can we do at an individual level to reduce the impact. ******** Plastic pollution is a major global phenomenon that has overshadowed every other problem humans have ever seen. With our lackadaisical approach towards usage of plastic and waste management, plastic waste travels long distances across oceans, land and is omnipresent today from the polar to the equator.  A less spoken thing, microplastics are spreading like a pla
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An open letter by the 'Dustbin'   To whomsoever, it MAY concern   TO EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY Hello all, I am the most commonly found item in every public place, residential area, office, city, etc. I am probably, one of the most ill-treated and widely exploited man-made products, “Dustbin”. You find me in different forms, colors, and shapes and I am usually made of plastic/metal. I have been bearing the pain of carrying waste in every possible form throughout my life. Having said this, I am not immune to the senseless actions of my creators and users around me. No one can see how many times I cry a day.  You might wonder, what this dumb thing is saying. I am born to collect rubbish but I don’t speak rubbish! Let me explain. People always throw waste of different forms without sorting it at their source. As a result, I end up carrying the waste every time to a nearby landfill or water body. These days, poor speechless animals are also
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Rivers or Plastic Waste Drains?

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I used to read stories during my childhood how our cultures have shaped alongside the rivers and how they were home to a variety of fish and farmlands. Over the past 100 years or so, all these connections have been severely damaged and people lost the spiritual connection with our rivers and water bodies. We live in an ephemeral society where everything is made available so conveniently through single-use plastics. It has become a daily routine for all of us to throw them without knowing where they really end. It’s hard to digest that the plastic which we dump at our houses/public places etc. eventually enters our rivers, nearby water bodies, and oceans. Plastics as we know safeguards our food, drinks and maintains sterile conditions. Its applications have touched every facet of our life. Our society is increasingly consuming plastic materials every year and most of these are employed in applications with a short lifetime. Unfortunately, we haven’t seriously thought abou
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Plastics in food and the agony animals face - Is this fair?

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Plastics in food and the agony animals face - Is this fair?   Do you feel like eating if you find this in your lunch box or you get only this in your canteen? This is an inadmissible idea to all of us, but our fellow living creatures on land and sea can’t complain or have an alternative. Have you ever thought of the agony they go through? Do you know how much plastic waste is found inside cattle’s stomach on an average? Do you know how many species have already eaten plastic unknowingly on our planet?  These are such questions that need to be answered by all of us as we are responsible for the situation today.  ********** Plastic, because of its versatility and inexpensive nature, finds application in every part of our life and is the ideal choice. However, its useful qualities have led to causing concerns to our species, oceans, and the environment. Our disposable lifestyle has made the plastics unsustainable and not worthy enough to be used.
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