There is a collective effort worldwide to phase out the use and production of single-use plastic. Back in 2002, Bangladesh was the first ever country to ban thin, single-use plastic. Several countries followed suit by either imposing a partial or complete ban on the use of plastic, or levying tax on every single single-use plastic item. The fight against plastic pollution is not just to make our surroundings look prettier and cleaner, but mainly to save the planet we live in from dying. With rivers, ocean, land and even mountains already all choked up with plastic waste, very recently researchers have found traces of plastic inside our body, in the blood.
The plastic we discard ends up in our land and ocean, two main areas from where we get our food to survive. The lifespan of a normal plastic item is upto 1000 years, plastic bottles upto 450, and plastic bags for about 20 years. Let's just say our entire lifetime. That’s too much time in our life, living with plastic in our system and that can’t be good.
