THE PLASTIC TRAP

 Plastic is a trap made for humans and the Earth. It has a huge time of decay means even if we throw it or bury it, it will not decay for 100 years and stay there, but the more harmful thing is that it doesn't just stay there it slowly turns into microplastics, now Microplastics are actually more harmful than plastic because it is next to impossible to remove this from the oceans, our body, land etc. However plastic on the other hand can be easily removable by hand but the thing that is more concerning is that we use PLASTIC CUPS!, these can be extremely dangerous to use and it slowly turns to microplastics as we put something hot in it and drink the microplastics get in our body and can develop cancer like harmful diseases but not only us humans it effects marine life and terrestrial life as we throw the trash in the oceans or throw it on land, the plastic can be consumed by animals and give them harmful diseases, also if we burn the plastic it will turn into some harmful gasses such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Carbon Monoxide (CO1) , these gasses are responsible for the greenhouse effect and eventually Global warming which have recently caused many animals to go extinct or be endangered, it also effects our breath and again give us harmful diseases like asthma or lung cancer etc. So it means that throwing it or burning it, both can cause harm to the nature. HUNDREDS OF TONS OF PLASTIC is burned or throwed out everyday in the world this is insanely harmful to the Earth and the ecosystem especially when it turns into microplastics, However plastic is also a bit useful but since it causes harm to the nature we should collect all the trash we have thrown out but as I said we can not collect the microplastics and the gasses but we can stop worsening it and let the nature heal itself so my opinion is that we should probably stop producing plastic products especially those who are not recyclable and try to recycle as much as plastic we can, also for the gasses

we can plant more trees which I respect the most because not only they provide us food but also turn the harmful Carbon Dioxide back into Oxygen. We have to take action to save the Earth from the plastic trap because it's almost indestructible and we can't break it down by burning or throwing it out since it hurts the Ecosystem instead, we should stop producing plastic.

Tanush Vishwakarma
Class - VI