Walt Disney Bans the Plastic Straws

We use close to 10 million straws a day all made of plastics. Another figure puts 500 million Straws are used alone in USA every day.  A single restaurant chain uses close to 900,000 straws every day in Australia. More than half of it enters oceans and landfills. Going by the numbers, Walt Disney like other major giants i.e Starbucks have decided to ban straws from their restaurants in all the locations across the world. Plastic Straws create havoc and

Scourge of the planet

Plastic, plastic everywhere and not a single solution in the Sight. Mankind has benefitted from the use of plastics in the last century on a very vast scale. But the Problem with plastic  has taken a significant turn since the decade of 90s. The problem with Plastic is its long-lasting life making it impossible to biodegrade in normal biodegradable environments and it ends up in landfills and waterways clogging the pores and arteries of the sewerage systems and microplastics clogging the

Wonder of Man Made World : Plastics

Ever thought, ever wondered, the wonder material that was worshipped by people when it was introduced, what were the reasons? Plastic was invented by John W Hyatt in 1869 and in the last 150 years numerous varieties of LLDPE (Linear Low Density Poly Ethylene), HDPE ( High Density Poly Ethylene), LDPE ( Low Density Poly Ethylene) , PE ( Polyethylene), PP ( Polypropylene), PVC ( Poly Vinyl Chloride ) and various other polymers have been invented and produced by the