What can we do to reduce overuse of plastics?
- Re-use of the plastic bags whenever it is possible to do so without any adverse affects. Neglect re-use of plastic bags for storage or storage of food items to store food items.
- Insist shopkeepers to use paper bags or jute bags to carry goods purchased,
- Do not use plastic bags, especially to store eatables.
- Do not throw plastic bags.
- Don’t fill plastic bags with wastes of plants and animals, such as peels of vegetables and fruits, egg shells, bone pieces of animals, and throw them here and there in open places.
Animals may eat such plastic bags for the sake of food items. Later on these cause death of animals such as cow. buffaloes, dogs and other stray animals. These plastic bags, sometimes suffocate them or choke the alimentary canal which causes indigestion of food and elimination of undigested food.
- Do not bum plastic bags and other plastic items because they emit harmful gases.
