Everybody uses things made of plastic as well as things that comes to us made of Plastic. There are many
types of plastic and they are all light in weight, low in cost, can be used in all seasons and they last long. The funny thing is, we don’t usually end up using plastic for a long time. We throw away plastic bags, cups and bottles, plastic straws, spoons, plates etc. and also we must immediately throw after using them.
Plastic is made of certain chemicals that do not decompose easily. Anything made of plastic takes a
long time to go away and within the certain period of time it does a lot of damages. The trash we throw away, is collected from various places and is sent to dump yards. At the dump yards it is disposed of as best as possible. The plastic things are collected and cut into tiny pieces, which are then melted to give it a new shape. In certain countries, plastic is reused to make Furniture, Clothes and other useful things.
Lots of trash flows out of the garbage bins. All are thrown away casually, carelessly anywhere. What happens to those plastics???
Well it goes into the drains, ponds, lakes, rivers and one way or the other ends up in the oceans. In the oceans, everywhere there are lots of plastics which keeps floating and sunk like threshers and goes deep down the surface of the ocean everywhere. Because of the waves of the ocean and the rays of the sun, those plastic things in the ocean break down into smaller pieces.
The oceans are the home to many types of fishes, animals etc. They are not used to see such type of
bright coloured and slow moving things in the surface of the ocean. They think those plastics as food, and consume those plastics.
Many ocean birds roam around for foods. They return with plastic and feed
those plastics to their little babies. They consume those plastics. As they consume those, they don’t get the nutrition which is needed and they die. The dead bodies of those birds are found and when surveyed it is seen that their stomach is full of plastics which is the reason of their death.
There are also many creatures that have died, because of eating plastics
If you visit the sea beach, you will get some kind of idea that plastic is present there in the oceans. Some of the plastics can be seen when the
wave of the ocean comes towards the sand present in the beach. If we don’t pick up those plastics and throw them in the dump yards or dustbins, the plastic goes back into the water and harms the little birds, the fish and the other animals in the oceans specially the turtles.
The ocean and the sea are home to some of the special and beautiful creatures.
Comparatively there are more plastics present in the oceans than the creatures. Each one of us must do something to get rid of plastic. We must promise ourselves to use less plastics and not to throw them away anywhere. Let’s do something good for the animals in the ocean, for nature and for our planet “earth”.
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