Plastics In Our Environs

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Thankful to u for going through my endevour and encouraging comment.

Great to read this article. Well done Junaid. These are important issues and are linked to other social issues. Brining awareness about these is a worthy effort.

This article reminded me of my poem about the same topic when I was attempting to write one poem for each one of the environmental issues and was posting it in our office bulletin board:

The Plastic Kills

This shopping bag I carry my dear
Is one of one trillion used a year.
If I do not make sure it’s safely disposed
And follow its tracks to find where it goes
I may be in for the shock of my life.

We all see it litter the landscape
It might travel to an unlikely place.
It may enter into a waste carrying pipe
And cause a grimy overflow in a swipe
Flooding the roadways, havoc for all.

We know it litters shores and seascapes
But don’t know it kills turtles and whales.
One hundred thousand of marine life
By this little plastic every year die.
Nature cannot deal with this cunning piece.

To make this plastic of whatever worth
We deplete petro-fluids drawn from the earth
And use further resources on factory floors
And precious landfills speedily choke.
A little convenience of fatal results

This shopping bag I carry my dear
Is one of one trillion used a year.
Each bag shortens our capacity to live
A wound to our planet we continually give.

Mutaal Mooquin

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