Act now or drown in our own irresponsible practices

A dump truck of plastic every second.

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That is the future we are choosing if current trends continue. Despite overwhelming evidence that plastic is choking oceans, poisoning wildlife, and fragmenting into microplastics that now circulate in our blood and lungs, global plastic production keeps accelerating. According to "Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025," a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, plastic pollution is projected to reach 280 million metric tons a year by 2040. This is a planetary emergency driven by policy failure, corporate inertia, and personal complacency.Governments around the world hold the strongest levers-and they have used them far too weakly. Voluntary pledges and recycling slogans cannot compete with an industry designed for endless production. What is needed is hard regulation: caps on virgin plastic production, bans on the most harmful single-use plastics, and mandatory extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws that force companies to pay for the waste they create. Governments must also invest heavily in reuse systems, waste reduction, and modern collection infra