Life_in_the_Plastic_Era

Life in the plastic era The present world in which we live is based on plastic .There was a time when all our activities used to be carried out by use of many biodegradable items. However, the introduction of plastic in the world market led to a change in the situation. Suddenly it seems that our life is incomplete without plastics. However if we see carefully then we find out that plastics gave us the power to bring are evolution in the industrial market. Suddenly such a wonderful product was available which would help to change the packaging industry forever, giving the medicinal field the edge to do the impossible i.e. make health care cheap and inexpensive, industries had the power to reduce the enormous cost on labour residence etc. The heavy weight of metals could now be reduced. Corrosion could now be prevented .The plumbing pipes are slowing being replaced by the PVC pipes. The weight of household containers suddenly went down along with its cost making it feasible for everyone. There was, still is, and will be praise for this wonder material. It changed the typical India kitchen and reduced the number of food poisoning cases, as the mighty plastics do not react with any other material. Any newborn child is easily attracted towards the beautiful plastic toys, which may in a large number of colours. He knows how the plastic tastes before tasting other any other food item .As a student the plastic is everywhere for me from my rulers to the stick files from lab gloves till sportswear. From the posters to my computer, plastic has found a universally appealing place in our lives. Plastics have helped us to reach a significant new era. Nowadays the people have self consciously blame the plastics for the pollution , the global warming , the sudden hysteria caused due to the possibility that the earth may not harbour life again in the near future. However are plastics really to blame or is it us our own deeds. Today if we look around us and try to imagine the world without the plastics then we see that the world is quite vacant. Some people say why not go back to the age old customs and traditions and still use any of the old materials, but I ask these people is it truly possible for us to switch back in this world of speed and immediate competition. Now days a new agenda has shown up regarding the lead poisoning through plastics toys. However it is not the children to blame but the people who manufacture there toys are they conscious about the health of their of children equivalent to their own. Some ask fossils fuels are already on the verge of exhaustion , why waste it manufacturing plastics well I say plastics is the one that bonds our society the rich as well as the poor have access to it but may be in different forms. Whatever we race belong to we use the same “diet aqua” bottles .Plastics help us to remain as one and we targeted by companies as Indians and not as Hindus and Muslims. We should tame our greed rather than blame the plastics, which after all is just an inanimate object. The Plastic Age is going strong. Plastic rules our lives and how! It is durable, does not rot, and you don’t need to cut trees to make it. Moreover, despite being much frowned upon and debated, plastic has a strong presence in almost every nook of our lives. So deep is the plastic connection that we use the term to refer to anything fake — plastic smile, plastic snow, plastic surgery! Imagine, if the Titanic were made of plastic, it may never have sunk. So while we battle plastic bags choking our drains, we just can’t imagine life without the ubiquitous plastic which has invaded every sphere of our existence, from the humble safety pins to aeroplane parts, carry bags to cushion filling, anything money can buy to the very card that we call money! That shiny new toy in plastic comes for a song, that plastic bucket lasts and lasts. And we have pop songs eulogising plastic and having even little ones believe that it’s the best thing to happen — “I’m a Barbie girl, in my Barbie world/ Wrapped in plastic, it’s fantastic…”.just like the song i would like to state just a fact that life in this era is really fantastic with plastics.