Twenty five Indian states/UTs now have some form of ban on polythene carry bags, but implementation is often lax, and plastic–which takes hundreds of years to decompose–continues to be used, which gathers in India’s water bodies and landfills, according to an IndiaSpend investigation.
India generates 5.6 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, and the country accounts for 60% of plastic waste dumped into the world’s oceans every year, estimates suggest. Three of the world’s ten rivers which carry 90% of plastic to the world’s oceans are in India–the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, according to an article in Environmental Science & Technology, a global journal.
In May 2012, two Supreme Court judges, Justice Singhvi and Justice Mukhopadhaya, said that “the next generation will be threatened with something more serious than the atom bomb” unless a “total ban on plastic is put in place”. Why oh why do we still use plastic bags? Please switch to cloth bags. Search for arka bags on Amazon.in
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