PERILS OF PLASTIC

With a goal to create awareness about the menacing effect of plastic pollution in our daily life and to join hands for a global campaign in combating plastic pollution by providing tangible solutions for a sustainable future, the theme of the World Environment Day 2025 has been chosen as 'Ending Plastic Pollution Globally.'

- Nikunja Bihari Sahu

Plastic has been an important part of our daily life ever since it was synthesized and patented by the Belgian chemist Leo Bakeland in 1907. We daily wake up to brush our teeth with plastic, bathe with tubs of plastic, drink water with bottles of plastic and sleep with pillow covers of plastic. Plastic is easy to mold to different shapes of our choice, cheap and durable and that is why its popularity in society has been constantly on the rise. Plastic is primarily manufactured from fossil fuel raw materials like crude petroleum oil and is chemically a synthetic long-chain polymer.