WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2018 : HOW INDIA CELEBRATED !!

Courtesy : Plastic Bottles in Hanoi, Vietnam

It was not earlier than yesterday that I figured out and saw people coming with solutions, efforts, ideas to beat plastic pollution. You may be thinking, What I did to beat plastic pollution, what were my efforts. Firstly, Out of ways which I suggested to implement in life, I implement and experimented those and it came out pretty well.

Before a month, I used a Thums Up Bottle to plant a Money Plant Creeper ( Epipremnum aureum - Devil's Ivy ), And it grew effectively.

NOW ( Date : June 5, 2018) 

THEN  ( Date : April 28, 2018)

I switched from drinking water from - recyclable cold drink bottles to refillable ones. I had almost narrowed my use of plastic bags to 0, by using cloth bags whenever I went for groceries or dairy products.


Few Months earlier we planted more than 30 trees in Fatehpura High School, which are now stable and growing peacefully everyday, along with kids studying there.


So, this were some minor adaptations by me, and by this week  I will collect and plant in more than 5 bottles. So the count will 6 bottles recycled. I know that recycling 6 bottles, does not make a change, but the beauty obtain from those bottled plants can inspire 50 others to adapt the technique which is favoured everywhere and we just don't know.

All we need to do is Inspire, make kids, teens, adults interest in small scale forestry or gardening, out these small steps, a larger impact can be seen.

Man Dressed as PLASTIC MONSTER @ UNEP Programme - June 5 2018

On June 5th 2018, India hosted World Environment Day with theme BEAT PLASTIC POLLUTION.

Efforts made all over india were remarkable.

Indian Railways :
The Staff of Shatabdi and Rajdhani express, one of the busiest trains, started using fully biodegradable food packages. 

Nagaland (state):
The Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio, Declares Nagaland as a " FREE OF PLASTIC STATE " by December 2018. And with the help of government, They are planning to plant 48000 saplings next week.

Tamil Nadu (state):
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, announced to "BAN SINGLE USE PLASTIC IN STATE" during the Assembly. And The ban will come to effect from next year and essential goods such as milk, oil and medicines have been exempted from the ban.The State has already banned manufacture and use of plastic bags below 51 microns.

Himachal Pradesh (state):
The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Jai Ram Thakur, announces "BAN ON THERMOCOL PLATES" and one litre plastic bottles at functions. He also stated that the students in government schools would be provided steel bottles to drink water and state will install 12 major Waste management plants. 

Bombay or I say MUMBAI, had its own way to celebrate the day. A lawyer and environmentalist, Afroz Shah along with people from different corners of city, gathered to clean the Versova Beach. They cleaned the entire beach with help of police force, people who joined voluntarily. Along with that, several other people to joined to clean the plastic woven beaches of Mumbai. 

BUT, 

After Researching a bit, I found out that, most of the wasted 
collected either ended up in oceans or rivers or canals. These made plastic OCEAN CENTRIC. Because most of it was obtained for waste management either from beaches or found floating in water.
The most plastic producing cities lie either in African, Asian Continents. India, China, Vietnam are some countries to name. 

A WEEK BEFORE, A MALE PILOT WHALE, STRANDED IN THAI CANAL, MALAYSIA BORDER. EVEN BEFORE, THE RESCUE BEGAN, IT PUKES FIVE POUNDS OF PLASTIC BAGS. AND AFTER FIVE DAYS OF STRANDING AND RESCUE OPERATIONS ON FRIDAY, IT DIED. LATER, THE RESCUE OPERATORS REVEALED THE DEATH BECAUSE OF CHOKING DUE TO EATING AND INHALING ABOUT SEVENTEEN POUNDS OF PLASTIC BAGS. 

Courtesy : News - National Geographic Channel


SO, WAS IT A

ACCIDENTAL DEATH 
OR 
A MURDER ???

AFTER ALL THIS I CAN CONCLUDE THAT WE NEED TO STRICT ACTIONS. ABOVE MENTIONED SMALL STEPS WON'T BE ENOUGH. WE NEED TO RAISE OUR VOICES. MAKE BOLD MOVES......AND IT CAN'T BE DONE SINGLE HANDEDLY....

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