Life After COVID: Need Of Eradicating Plastic

Vaccine trials have just been finished. Soon we’ll have a vaccine for COVID. The efforts of being home will finally pay off. The plans of going to the beaches, hill stations and the destinations we’ve missed out during the lockdown will be made. We would be out for a dine at our favorite places. But we’ll have to wear masks until everyone is vaccinated and hurrah we’ll be back to our normal lives. But what normal lives are we even talking about. Lets have a look at our so called ‘normal’. • A normal where world generates around 3.5 millions tons of plastic waste and other solid waste everyday. • A normal where about 0.0986 billion tons of Carbon Dioxide is emitted every day around the world. • A normal where 2 million tons of sewage and industrial waste water is dumped into water every day around the globe. • A normal where around 22,000 tons of plastic is dumped into oceans everyday. Lets go through some more reports and insights. ...