Avoid single use Plastic
In 2016, global production of plastic reached 335 million tons. About 50% of this ends up as single use plastic products.
500 million Plastic straws are used everyday in US alone. They end up in garbage, litter beaches and pollute water bodies and oceans.
If there is need to use a straw, one can think of using a reusable straw made of bamboo, steel or glass. Avoid use of plastic straw and save the only earth from increasing plastic pollution.
Worldwide 1 million plastic bottles are sold every minute. Replacing plastic bottle with reusable alternatives makes significant contribution towards reduction of plastic pollution
Worldwide 1 trillion plastic bags are used in a year. Only 1% of them are recycled. Replace use of plastic bags with reusable bags, again contributes towards reduction of plastic pollution.
Worldwide 500 billion disposable cups are used every year. Most of styrofoam cups which end up as plastic pollution have a life span of 500 years.
Worldwide 78 million tons of plastic is used for packaging. 32% of this ends in oceans. That is like dumping one garbage truck of plastic waste into ocean every minute. This will increase to two garbage trucks a minute by 2030 and four garbage trucks a minute by 2050. By 2050 oceans will have more plastic than fish.
KMF supplies milk in plastic sachets. When they can supply flavored milk in tetrapacks and bottles, why cant they supply regular milk in tetrapacks or reusable bottles ? With proper awareness, people dont mind paying incremental increase in price to buy milk in tetrapacks or bottles.
500 million Plastic straws are used everyday in US alone. They end up in garbage, litter beaches and pollute water bodies and oceans.
If there is need to use a straw, one can think of using a reusable straw made of bamboo, steel or glass. Avoid use of plastic straw and save the only earth from increasing plastic pollution.
Worldwide 1 million plastic bottles are sold every minute. Replacing plastic bottle with reusable alternatives makes significant contribution towards reduction of plastic pollution
Worldwide 1 trillion plastic bags are used in a year. Only 1% of them are recycled. Replace use of plastic bags with reusable bags, again contributes towards reduction of plastic pollution.
Worldwide 500 billion disposable cups are used every year. Most of styrofoam cups which end up as plastic pollution have a life span of 500 years.
Worldwide 78 million tons of plastic is used for packaging. 32% of this ends in oceans. That is like dumping one garbage truck of plastic waste into ocean every minute. This will increase to two garbage trucks a minute by 2030 and four garbage trucks a minute by 2050. By 2050 oceans will have more plastic than fish.
KMF supplies milk in plastic sachets. When they can supply flavored milk in tetrapacks and bottles, why cant they supply regular milk in tetrapacks or reusable bottles ? With proper awareness, people dont mind paying incremental increase in price to buy milk in tetrapacks or bottles.
posted by Udaya Shankar Puranik @ 4:59 AM
3 Comments:
Excellent article!! At least milk covers do get recycled!! Not the case with one time use plastics!! Thanks!! Sharing!!
Food for thought. Wonderful write-up
Chandrakant, dairy industry claims that 40% of milk sachets are recycled.
Even if this claim is true, we have 60% of milk sachets getting burnt, dumped in garbage and water bodies every day.
An example of volume of plastic sachet waste we create every day.
Everyday 5 Million litres of milk is sold in Mumbai Metropolitan Area.
3 Million litres is sold in half litre sachets. That is total of six million sachets used.
2 Million litres is sold in one litre sachets. That is total of two million sachets.
Net total we are creating 8 million milk sachets waste in Mumbai Metropolitan alone everyday. All India figures will be several times more.
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