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Plastic pollution is real, and enough has been said and written about it. To put things into perspective, once again, 50 billion tons worth of plastic will be manufactured by the year 2050. Most of these plastics are single-use plastics. With plastic turning into being such an integral part of our everyday life, it is time we look into ways to curb the plastic menace and contain the plastic pollution.Plastic Pollution

While the best way would be to clearly reduce and eventually stop using plastic altogether; it will be fruitful to look into other viable and practical ways to handle the plastic problem. Environmentalists often campaign for reusing and recycling plastics as feasible ways of containing this man made crisis.

Read: Are You Eating Fish or Plastic?

How to Reduce Plastic Footprint?

When it comes to reducing the plastic footprint, it is essential that proper awareness drives are conducted and conscious lifestyle changes are put into place. It starts with something as basic as:

  1. Carrying your own bag to grocery stores
  2. Carry your own water bottle
  3. Say NO to plastic cutlery

Yes, carrying your own reusable cloth bag is the simplest and easiest first step towards a plastic-free world. Most grocery stores provide plastic bags which are not used the second time by customers adding to the plastic waste around us. The same goes for water bottles and refusing to use plastic cutlery as well. If you think about it, these are small changes which once introduced in our lives, will force manufacturers and decision makers to come up with more sustainable ways of packaging and selling goods.

Watch: 5 Ways to Reduce Single-use Plastic

Reuse the Plastic

Being resistant in nature, plastics can be reused in several ways. Reusing and repurposing plastic items should be the natural step once you possess plastic. There are several websites and videos dedicated solely to guiding you on how plastic products like bottles can be reused as storage cans, drip irrigators, bird feeders, and even party décor items. All that is needed is a resolve to reuse the plastic before dumping it to the waste bin. In cases wherein you cannot reuse plastic, the best way to move forward is to donate it.

how to prevent plastic pollutionReusing of plastic not only minimizes the environmental impact of plastic pollution, it even saves your money, and most of all brings down the demand for new plastic to be manufactured.

Recycle Plastic – The Last Resort

Eventually the plastic which you reused has to be disposed. Recycling the plastic, instead of dumping it into the trash is seen as the most appropriate way to handle plastic pollution. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), producing new plastic from recycled material uses only two-thirds of the energy required to manufacture it from raw materials. The recycling of plastic involves collecting the plastic waste and reprocessing it into new products. By recycling, not only do we bring down the number of new plastic manufactured; but we can also reduce the amount of plastic in the waste stream.

To sum up the dialogue on plastic pollution,

  1. The first step is to AVOID plastic
  2. Reuse and Recycle are the next steps to arrest the plastic menace
  3. Need to Replace plastic with more sustainable solutions
  4. Need for better Planning and Commitment from policy makers
  5. Educating about the harmful effects of plastic on the environment

 

Every small step towards preventing plastic pollution will take us closer to achieving our sustainable development goals 11 (sustainable cities and communities), 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate change), 14 (life below Earth), 15 (life below Land). As a society it is our responsibility to make efforts towards meeting these goals and building a better ecosystem.

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