This includes plastic bags, plastic cutlery, straws and soda and water bottles, to name a few. ️ On average, single-use plastic bags are used for 2️⃣5️⃣ minutes and take over 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ years to degrade. “If we don’t want plastic in our bodies, we need to stop the millions of tons of plastic that continue leaking into nature every year. Titled No Plastic in Nature: Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People, the study suggests that people are consuming about 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic every week – that makes approximately 21 grams a month and just over 250 grams a year. He said that although the federal and provincial governments have been making efforts to ban plastic bags, there is a need to promote alternatives and develop a comprehensive strategy to ensure zero plastic waste in Pakistan.

Source: The Express Tribune July 03, 2019 17:26 UTC