Sri Lanka can learn from India on scoring on environment

Many years ago, foreign news editors and environmentalists were shocked to see a photograph of a dead fish floating on a pond alongside a single-use plastic wrapper that was uploaded to the Agence France-Presse, better known as AFP.

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The year was 2022 and the date was September 28. The country where the photograph was produced was India, a nation that is guilty of producing 1/5 of the plastic garbage annually produced in the world.

The single-use wrapper is of a favourite snack in India; Britannia Tiger Glucose. So we have to imagine that a child ate the contents (biscuits) and threw the wrapper into the pond, which apparently is situated in a Hindu Temple premises. Now, when we put together all the bits and pieces of information given in the picture caption, we can clearly observe that environmental pollution is a topic which sends chills down your spine.