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| Garbage patch on sea |
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| Plastic bottles |
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| Sea bed Pollution |
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| Plastic bags Pollution |
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| A sea beach in U.K. |
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| View of polluted Jamuna river |
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Don't Stick to Plastics, Please
1) We live in a shining world of plastic show
So charmed by plastics we do wear
Plastic smiles on our face and glow
Like plastic dolls in a village fair.
2) We start our day with plastic tools and trays
Till night we use plastics--unaware
Of its toxic spell--deceived by showy surface;
Even sellers in plastic covers wrap up their ware.
3) Rich nations show their status great
By using notes in plastic form;
Even gods molded in plastic--a tragic state
To show off our sophisticated norms.
4) Thousands of tons of plastic waste
We leave unmindful of future doom
Polluting ourselves and world in haste
Blind to the pernicious impending gloom.
5) Our earth polluted beyond measure
Obnoxious vapors released into the air
Befouling water and soil, our precious treasure;
The wages of pollution all have to bear.
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| Plastic refuse on water bodies |
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| Artificial Plastic Flowers |
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| Plastic plants |
6) Even humble beasts we do not spare
Poisoning their food with plastic refuse
Thrown out recklessly without any care
Too many comforts men do misuse.
7) Clogged our drains and gutters packt
With plastics, breeding so many ills;
Dreadful diseases do we contract
So many lives -- sheer negligence kills.
8) Setting up super shops and spacious malls
We bid farewell to simple and healthy life;
We move in a world of plastic stalls
Enslaving ourselves to complicated strife.
9) Our simple tools, too, plasticized we know
Our pot, plate, basket, chair and ball
Ignoring our craftsman's troubles and woes
Plastic pollution, the modern man-made devil now.
10) Mere mouthing platitudes-- no gain
Reduce, re-use or re-cycle everything in use;
If too late, we have to repent in vain
The risk of pollution let us defuse.
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Note : Dear Friends, Let us try our best to avoid plastics as it is going to be a
serious hazard and threat to the whole world aggravating pollution.Every
minute more than one billion plastic bags are used all over the world.
Plastic material takes nearly five hundred years to decompose and mix
with the earth. Plastic pollution spreads everywhere over land, water and
even air. Many animals, birds and sea creatures lose their lives due to
consumption of plastic bags or due to suffocation caused when they are entangled in plastic nets and covers. Plastic vessels affect even humans by
their effect on skin, hormones and respiratory organs. Every year more than
ten lakhs of sea birds and one lakh sea creatures are killed due to plastic
pollution. Even recycling of plastic material results in emission of poisonous
gases. Let us use natural materials like cotton, jute and other eco-friendly
material and try to curb this global menace. As I wrote in "Ode on Earthquake"
( We puffed pollution's balloon too full/ Dire doom upon ourselves we pull.) Don't use plastics Please!
Remember "Pollution is the forerunner of perdition."
17th July, 2014 Somaseshu Gutala
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