Polythene monster in Kashmir
News Kashmir Analysis
Polythene monster is still being seen in Kashmir used by people and shopkeepers, street vendors despite bans and awareness campaigns. The people of Kashmir are still not awakening to the monster impacts of polythene.
Polythene still being used and customers also taking items in Polythene without questioning is a trending thing in Kashmir.
Polythene is a monster of epic proportions.
Polythene is generally considered an hazard for our environment and agriculture as it has damaging consequences on the same. Use of polythene bags is rampant across the valley of Kashmir posing a very serious threat to the environment Despite the ban witnesses reveal .In nutshell the menace of polythene is back to worry the people of Kashmir.
It is a general trend to see polythene abundantly used still in the nook and corner of the Kashmir Valley from rural to urban areas despite blanket ban by the authorities announced more than decade ago.
It is an open secret that the shopkeepers and the vendors are openly seen providing polythene to their customers for carrying various goods and different eatables.
Pertinently a decade back the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State government had banned the transportation, dumping, sale and use of non-biodegradable materials in the state.
otherhand, on environmental front the beautiful Valley of Kashmir is facing massive problems. Kashmir’s ecological balance has been harshly disturbed as a result of unabated environmental destruction over a period of several decades and the resurfacing of polythene monster is going to make the problem further shoddier.
The expert pulse is that in a landfill, a plastic bag will take roughly 1,000 years to degrade. Undergoing a process called photo-degradation, sunlight will transform the plastic into smaller pieces called microplastics. These microplastics can persist in our environment indefinitely, and they often end up mistaken as food.
Although, the only silver lining in dark clouds is that at few serene tourist spots in Kashmir the polythene bag ban has worked very well.
We need to awake as society and shun the use of polythene bags especially. The educated youth of Kashmir need to wake up and educate all about the ills of polythene bags and also further strict and swift action by the authorities on polythene sale and use.
