Recycle or Landfill. Or buy another Planet?

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Polythene bag is harmful for the world. This simple truth started to get public attention. But still very slow the awareness. Polythene comes from petroleum. Also it is not decomposable or biodegradable. It is flying garbage, blocks water flow, damage soil fertility, produce gases etc. So what should we do with this? Will Recycle? Or keep filling the landfill?

Recycle:
To recycle the polythene bag needs a lot of energy for its process. It requires extremely organized collection system and public consciousness to get polythene separate from other garbage. This is almost impossible. Less than 5% are collected after huge effort on collection. And it costs about $.17 to recycle. When costs $.02 to produce a new bag. So, recycling sounds like, using a Machine Gun to shoot down a small insect. Also the recycling keeps motivating the production and usages of the Polythene bag.

Landfill:
500 Billion to 1 Trillion bags are used per year in the world. It takes 500 years to 1000 years to decompose a polythene bag. Actually we do not know exactly how many years will take to decompose or even never will decompose at all. Only 50 years we have started to use polythene bag. So we do not have evidence yet. The scientists estimates 500 to 1000 years by their lab test.

Now let’s do the math to find about how big landfill will require damping all polythene bags used every year. If it takes 500 years to decompose, how many years it will remain there? Continue to land filling, how big the land require? How significant affect will have the air, water, land, animal, eco system etc. So, why do not buy another planet to use as a landfill for Polythene bag. Is it not easier? Or should we stop using the polythene bag immediately.

Solution:
It sounds like the invention of the shoe. Once upon a day there was a king. He did not want to make dirty his feet while we walk. So he called a meeting to solve the problem. All ministers offers many different solution such as, covering the country by carpet, or a group of labor keep unrolling and rolling a carpet when the king is walking. Finally a humble shoe maker came and advises to cover the feet of the king by leather. That is how the shoe was invented.

Same as the shoe inventing, we may not do recycling neither land filling but stop using polythene immediately. How does it sound? Wow! I am a genius. I just invented the solution.

Sorry, I did not invent. I have learned this from other humble country as Bangladesh. More details are could be found at AmeriGreenbag.Com

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