PLASTIC BAN – ENVIRANMENT V/S ECONOMY.
The ban on plastic started 21 years ago. The state of Sikkim, in India’s northeast, launched the ban in 1998. State officials took the action after heavy rain caused several major landslides in the area. Himachal was the first state to ban polythene shopping bags in India. Now you may ask which country is free from plastic it's Rwanda who aims to be completely plastic-free by 2020. Did you know who invented plastic? It was Leo Hendrik Baekeland in 1907. Plastic bags must be banned in order to reduce pollution. We can see north Pacific Ocean is the most polluted of the world’s oceans. We produce 300 million tons of plastic every year and more than 8 million tons of plastics are dumped to oceans. In this present blog, I will tell how the plastic ban benefits the environment and affects the economy. It will also...