atulaWhy you can’t use plastic bags?
July 16th 2008 07:03
We all keep on hearing how bad plastic bags are to the environment but I am sure very few of us really know why these bags are bad compared to a paper bag or a cloth bag.
Plastic is actually non-biodegradable, which in layman’s term means that it cannot be eaten by the thousands of bacteria and other microorganisms living in this world apart from us and are actually helping us a lot in cleaning the mess we create everyday, when we throw our garbage out.
Tell me one thing; if you were given a choice of a banana and a stone for a meal, which one will you eat? Well, if you are not a stone eater by choice, I am sure it will be the banana. So it is a similar situation for the poor bacteria. They just can’t eat the plastic, whereas any naturally made material like paper or cloth made of cotton, silk etc. is ok for them. As they enjoy such kind of meals, the thrown away wastes for us, is degraded and slowly and steadily it becomes part of the soil.
So in true sense what comes out of the soil goes back to the soil. Something we can’t say for the plastic bags. These are just lying there, keep lying there and even if you pick your wafer bag after a year or so, the bag will be intact apart from the soil or mud it has gathered on top of it. You can actually re-use this bag after washing it!
So hope you understand. Think before you use, and think before you throw. Remember the plastic bag heaps that may one day become so much that you and me have no place to walk. Imagine if all parks are converted into dump yards because the plastic rubbish gets higher and higher everyday and there is just no place to keep them. Imagine your kid sitting on top of a plastic hilltop instead of a real hill. Imagine going for a riverside boating just to find that the river ha now turned to a marsh of plastic bags.
The choice is yours and mine to make a difference and use not one or two but not a single plastic bag. You will find it is not really difficult to use a paper bag or a wonderful cloth bag that come in so many pretty designs and colors. You can re-use these and even if you wish to throw them away, the microorganisms will more than thank you for a scrumptious meal!
Plastic is actually non-biodegradable, which in layman’s term means that it cannot be eaten by the thousands of bacteria and other microorganisms living in this world apart from us and are actually helping us a lot in cleaning the mess we create everyday, when we throw our garbage out.
Tell me one thing; if you were given a choice of a banana and a stone for a meal, which one will you eat? Well, if you are not a stone eater by choice, I am sure it will be the banana. So it is a similar situation for the poor bacteria. They just can’t eat the plastic, whereas any naturally made material like paper or cloth made of cotton, silk etc. is ok for them. As they enjoy such kind of meals, the thrown away wastes for us, is degraded and slowly and steadily it becomes part of the soil.
So in true sense what comes out of the soil goes back to the soil. Something we can’t say for the plastic bags. These are just lying there, keep lying there and even if you pick your wafer bag after a year or so, the bag will be intact apart from the soil or mud it has gathered on top of it. You can actually re-use this bag after washing it!
So hope you understand. Think before you use, and think before you throw. Remember the plastic bag heaps that may one day become so much that you and me have no place to walk. Imagine if all parks are converted into dump yards because the plastic rubbish gets higher and higher everyday and there is just no place to keep them. Imagine your kid sitting on top of a plastic hilltop instead of a real hill. Imagine going for a riverside boating just to find that the river ha now turned to a marsh of plastic bags.
river shores getting converted into plastic dum yards
The choice is yours and mine to make a difference and use not one or two but not a single plastic bag. You will find it is not really difficult to use a paper bag or a wonderful cloth bag that come in so many pretty designs and colors. You can re-use these and even if you wish to throw them away, the microorganisms will more than thank you for a scrumptious meal!
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