REPLACE OF PLASTIC BAGS:

-Getting Closer to your Mega Project Problem:

We go to shopping at market or even buy vegetables everything we take home in plastic bags .If I think of my home only each day 3–5 plastic bags come to my home .When we multiply this 5 to total no of houses its becomes really big quantity and the most important is that this huge amount of plastic bags are not reusable which impact our environment in several ways.

1-ANIMAL DYING AFTER MISTAKING PLASTIC FOR FOOD:

100,000 of animals die because of plastic bags as they eat plastic thinking at as their food.

Camel die after mistaking plastic bags for food

2-ANIMAL FOUND PLASTIC BAG AS SHELTER AND DIE IN SUFFOCATION:

Many animal die thinking plastic bag as their shelter but they tangled in plastic bags and die in suffocation.

Bird tangled in plastic bag

3-PLASTIC BAG AFFECT HUMAN HEALTH:

Plastic affect human health some major disease as Cancer, diabetes , and many immune diseases are just because manufacturing of plastic bags uses cancer causing chemicals such as vinyl hydrochloride and benzene.

Plastic used in microwave causes cancer.

4-PLASTIC BAGS CAUSE DRAIN BLOCKAGES:

Plastic bags causes drainage blocking .Urban flood also comes because of plastic clogging.

Urban Flood cause by plastic clogging.

5-PLASTIC BAGS HARMFUL TO THE ENVIRONMENT:

Plastic bags really harm our environment as it takes hundred or thousands of years to breakdown.

Plastic pollution

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

Plastic bags causes a lot of and harm environment and it causes life of human and animal in danger .

THEORY OF CHANGE:

If we use Reusable bags instead of plastic bags it’s really helpful in cleaning environment as the use of reusable bags is only one time cost and its so reasonable too.

There are different people selling reusable bags online bags I have seen one on Instagram named Mai Aur Ami who sell beautiful hand painted bags.

Mai Aur Ami:

Mother and daughter named Naila and Hira from Karachi selling handmade reusable bags online .

Hand painted bags by Mai Aur Ami

Its my idea to take some bags from them or any other brand using reusable bags and give people on public place and make them realize that if they use these one time buy reusable bag it will really help to stop this environmental pollution caused by Plastic Bags. It high time to stop using plastic bags to save Animals life and for our health.

Thanks Amal! for making me write blog on this issue and makes me realize how much serious this issue is and we have to work on it to save our health and animals life and for cleaning our environment.