Many  years ago, I would go to the market every day and make sure I returned with at least one plastic carry bag, so that I could line my garbage  bin with it, as it was so convenient, leak proof and made emptying the bin so much easier this happens specially in Indian  household. So each day there would be one large carry bag that took care of the  vegetables, one for fruits and another one for other groceries. That would total to at least 2-3 bags a day. Later on I realised that there is no other material in the world which is harmful as plastic. Then i started using cloth carry bags and other environment friendly materials. People are trying there level best to use cloth bags and consciously recycling all their newspapers, milk packets, plastic, biscuit wrappers, tetrapaks, etc. But that's still a small percentage making a choice and affecting a small change

Even our forest villages have succumbed to its menace. If you haven't noticed yet, little plastic islands have slowly begun to make an appearance everywhere. Like the ones that have formed in our oceans.

 Isn't it shocking that we are indifferently using a single use throwaway plastic carry bag and letting it ruin our environment? Are we aware of its repercussions? Perhaps we are realizing it now, 20 years of using this wonder material that it simply doesn't disappear.

Now we only throw away and litter. And with populations increasing and consumerism on a steep rise but decreasing kitchen yards, negligible livestock, the capacity to biodegrade such high loads of waste has been majorly impacted. And the new age materials like thermacol, styrofoam, aluminium foil, hard plastic that are impossible to recycle are only making matters worse. But the solution to this lies individually with us and collectively we can bring about a change and improve our environment for our own survival. It's really simple.

If each of us, act as change-makers, by influencing others, making them aware and showing them how, we can clear away these little plastic islands. Let's stop complaining and blaming the authorities, our local bodies. Let's individually take action I have done the same through the ambassador programme now its the duty of everyone of us to do the same and to understand the hazards of our actions and clean up our environment. It will simply ensure our own survival.

Imagine a scenario where everyone of us responsibly carries a cloth bag or two every time we shop, lakhs of plastic bags will be saved ending up in our fields, rivers and forests! Every time you buy a product, buy organic with non-plastic packaging. Take extreme care of what you throw out. Compost, reduce, reuse, recycle. Only we can make that choice. A choice for cleaner air, water, soil and food, free from the a cancer called plastic!