Rivers or Plastic Waste Drains?
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