The best way to Beat Plastic Pollution is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. But are we all awared about reduce and recycle of plastics? We know recycling is much better for the environment than committing used items forever to landfill but of the 8.3 billion metric tons that has been produced, 6.3 billion metric tons has become plastic waste. Of that, only nine percent has been recycled and whopping 91% of the plastic aren’t recycled. The vast majority percent is accumulating in landfills or sloughing off in the natural environment as litter. The rapid acceleration of plastic manufacturing, which so far has doubled roughly every 15 years, has outpaced nearly every other man-made material. The prediction is that by mid-century, the oceans will contain more plastic waste than fish. If present trends continue, by 2050, there will be 12 billion metric tons of plastic in landfills.

Plastics can that we throw daily can be reused and recycled for our own purposes in various ways as creating recycled plastic bottle and cups, Creating plastic decorative to decorate your room and house, cold drink bottles to water bottles, vertical gardening by using plastic bottles and many more. We are converting the materials which can be used for us as waste to pollute our planet earth. As I already said in my previous report, we must be responsible for the waste we produce. Its us who need to decide will we reuse plastic for our own benefit or throw plastic polluting our own place and creating problem for us as well as our future generation. Definitely everyone choice must be the first, its just that we must make people realize whether they will choose plastic as waste as reuse and recyclable goods,

Shikshya Parajuli. An undergraduate student of agriculture at Prithu Technical Campus Participating in Online Environment Campaign “Small Act Great Impact” sending the picture of her effort to change plastic waste into decorative for decorating her room says :

Plastics can be turned into decorations. If you can decorate it, why throw as waste.

"Where do you keep the bottles after their use? Do you throw them leaving them to be a pollutant?

More than 60 million plastic bottles end up in landfills and incinerators every day. Did you ever think how much do they pollute the environment? it takes at least up to thousands of years for every single bottle to decompose, leaking pollutants into our soil and water along the way.

Our small act of reuse and recycle can be a true gem to beat plastic pollution. I have created a beautiful handicraft by using a waste bottle of sprite and ice cream packet. Your small acts can turn wastes into a beautiful decoration material and many more. This small initiative taken by us to us to reuse and recycle of the plastic pollution we create, we can create a great contribution to beat plastic pollution. Together we can beat plastic pollution, Let’s take this small initiative and create a great impact."

Together we can beat Plastic Pollution. Lets all refuse if we can’t reuse.

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Reference: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/