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| Caranzalem beach, courtesy Indiamarks.com |
Imagine the pollution from single use plastics in India with a total coastline of 7517 km ..
Given that almost 50% of plastic pollution across the world is from single use plastics, can we be a bit more discerning in it's use and disposal ?
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Plastic trash on beaches come from two sourdces, those deposited by the sea and by tourists. The trash collected by the NIO team in Goa would most probably be beach trash, deposited by tourists. If we create better awareness among the beach tourists to help maintain a good neat beach free of plastic and other litter, it would be a great service to the people around, other prospective tourists and to the beach health in general.
In June 2019, a paper from WWF and Uty of Newcastle, Australia in the Environment Journal, (click here) that humans on an average ingest about 5 grams of micro-plastic a week from the water we drink. Where does our drinking water get this plastic ? Plastic littered in the drinking sources of water is the way micro plastics are found in drinking water. The study further states that every human on a average consumes about 250 grams of micro plastics a year coming to us from water, food sources etc.
This is indeed a threat. We are aware of plastic being a carcinogen, inducing growth of cancer. Human ingestion of micro plastics is thus a big threat to human survival.
Single use plastics after te use, is littered and either finds it's way into landfills or water bodies, both of which is a threat to human and animal life on earth.
We need to think of a concerted innovative effort to control this littering of single use plastic around the world, especially around South East Asia, which is claimed to the world's largest user of single use plastics.
George..
Plastic trash on beaches come from two sourdces, those deposited by the sea and by tourists. The trash collected by the NIO team in Goa would most probably be beach trash, deposited by tourists. If we create better awareness among the beach tourists to help maintain a good neat beach free of plastic and other litter, it would be a great service to the people around, other prospective tourists and to the beach health in general.
In June 2019, a paper from WWF and Uty of Newcastle, Australia in the Environment Journal, (click here) that humans on an average ingest about 5 grams of micro-plastic a week from the water we drink. Where does our drinking water get this plastic ? Plastic littered in the drinking sources of water is the way micro plastics are found in drinking water. The study further states that every human on a average consumes about 250 grams of micro plastics a year coming to us from water, food sources etc.
This is indeed a threat. We are aware of plastic being a carcinogen, inducing growth of cancer. Human ingestion of micro plastics is thus a big threat to human survival.
Single use plastics after te use, is littered and either finds it's way into landfills or water bodies, both of which is a threat to human and animal life on earth.
We need to think of a concerted innovative effort to control this littering of single use plastic around the world, especially around South East Asia, which is claimed to the world's largest user of single use plastics.
George..
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