First, hold your breath this is going to be a long article i ever wrote.
I read it on Kompas this week, i forgot which day contain article about the Pacific Trash Vortex. When i read it i'm quite shock to believe what i just known. How bad plastics can damage our environment.
We may know that plastics will take more than a million year to decompose. If any random readers don't know what is the cool thing about 'plastics' and 'decompose' thing. I would explain it in my own simple words.
So when you buy chocolate or candies or beverages from nearest convenience store, those treats will be wrapped in a thing called plastics. After you eat the treats, unless you also eat the wrapper(meaning: you are super glutton), you just throw the wrapper in a garbage or on the streets(for those who will reincarnate to be an imbecile in their next life).
The wrappers you discard + any others person who discard the food wrappers on earth will accumulate for a day. And not only today you or other people buy something with plastics right? unless you eat only veggies and fruits right from the garden behind your house. Plastics already accumulate since the first day it invented, i don't know who found it/how it is found nor do i care about this thing that has major impact in destroying environment.
Where would it all go? to the landfill? yeah right, like the population of human will not increase. In reality someday our growing society will conquer more land to live as our habitat. Meaning less landfill and since we can't live in the water, let's all just throw the garbage to the sea.(surely whoever done this, their next life will be in asylum or something worse)
My bad it is not
someday it already happened now.
This is what happen to the creature in the sea, suffer from human selfishness wrongdoing:
An Albatross with stomach full of plastics found dead, Albatross can't eat fish from sea surface so instead they eat the plastics on surface since they might thought plastics as food as well. And yes most plastics are floating on water surface since they are really thin.
Plastics can't be digest, so those poor birds will be dead soon after
they eat plastics. since it will make the birds keep starving and the
plastics will stay in their body and turned into toxic substance.
I see this as my problem as well, i drink milk wrapped with plastics, but instead of just throw it away in garbage can. I will try to start a company which can recycle the plastics used by food wrappers. I can start to hire people to collect plastics from house to house, door to door and then the plastics after use can be made like new and can be used again with some technology that can delay or eliminate the toxic released by plastics. This method can keep the amount of plastics still the same or with upper bound of maximum plastics circling our life.
Of course i would make it profitable by asking some amount of money from household we take the plastics from. If possible and ministry of environment care about it, please make it a law or rule, like an obligation for every house to pay one Plastics Recylcle-Reuse company to take care of their plastics debris.
In my opinion this kind of business will last until someone or maybe me found the replacement for plastics, using tupperware maybe?
But that would need a lot of adjustment if you are used by easy and simple life. You would not suddenly, starting tomorrow, go to Walmart and buy fish, meats, veggies, fruits bringing tupperware so you would not need plastics to wrap your foods. Not to mention other things like chips, biscuits with plastics from the factory itself so it will need a lot of changing in the food industry itself to really reducing plastics.
Anyone who are willing to do the same thing as i do, are also welcome, maybe discuss it with me about the next step.
