Plastic: Menace or Saviour

I was doing a research on the impact of plastic on human lifes and discovered some facts that were unknown to me before.

Everyone knows the convenience of plastic - plastic carrier bags, plastic containers, etc. Worldwide, approximately 500 billion to 1 trillion of plastics are used. Only 3% are recycled.

BUT did you know that 86% of debris floating in the ocean are plastics? Yup.

And the biggest garbage dump site on earth is floating in the Pacific Ocean. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and is the size of Texas, USA.

Plastics can't biodegrade. Over years, they will break into smaller and smaller pieces but will still exist on Earth. As smaller bits and tiny particles, they'd be eaten by wildlife, marine life and tiny micro organisms such as plankton which is at the bottom of the food chain. So, imagine the plantons ate plastic particles, fish ate the said planktons, bigger fish ate the said smaller fish and fishermen caught the bigger fish. No prize for guessing where that big fish end up. On our plates! And into our tummy. Yuck.

So, be a conscientious consumer. Use only reusable plastics.