My mal contribution to mother earth

DrViyatprajna Acharya
Professor Biochemistry.
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While cleaning my worship place apparently this much and few more small polythene bags were found accumulated from just getting flowers from the florists on alternative days from past one year or so…what do I do with these…at times I return them with care to the florist to be recycled, but some refuse to accept. For them it is a very cheap matter and they can afford to give away new polythene bags to their customers. They don’t understand that these small polythene bags will go to trash straightaway and increase the non-biodegradable load on our Mother Earth.
It is really appalling that if I alone release so many polyethene to the environment only collected from florists, how much load I have increased and still going to increase if I consider all the polythene packs that are obtained from daily milk packets, grocery products, chocolate wrappers, gift wrappers, food packages….the list is endless.
Why am I so concerned? Not only we increase the non-biodegradable load on earth but a lot of chemicals leach into our water bodies and return to us as different diseases. Nowadays cancer is spreading like epidemic and it is no coincidence…it is the effect of our mindless use and improper disposal of polyethene that is ruining our health and environment.
Basically we are selfish…if it is convenient, we are not going to compromise with it whatever may be the outcome. But as the calf anyhow searches for its mother our ‘Karmafala’ is also hounding us now….our carelessness has manifested in the form of different cancers, metabolic diseases, endocrinal diseases and plastic chemicals are one of the root causes.
What do we do then???
Plastic is indispensable in our lives now. But if we have an inner call to change things, it is possible to reduce this plastic load. A single person can make a lot of change. And that person should be us. Let the change begin with us….
1. Take a cloth bag for shopping
2. Encourage local grocer to sell lose products in paper bags
3. Appeal state as well as central Govt to put a ban on single use plastics and introduce plastic substitutes (many products are available now), so that people don’t lose their jobs
4. Use steel, copper, earthen pots for storing and carrying water. Keeping plastic bottles in the cars should be a strict no-no.
5.Glass baby feeding bottles should be used.
6. Segregate bio degradable and non-biodegradable waste from all apartments and market places.
7. Use oxo-biodegradable trash bags or even fibre bags for dustbins
Hopefully we see a greener and safer earth with these small practices.
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This was my message at Mrs INDIA – My Identity 2018 and still remains the same as I do not see any drastic change in government or common man’s attitude towards reducing plastic load.
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