GAIL India Ltd organized Poster making competition single use Plastics

New Delhi: GAIL(India) Ltd Chandigarh Zonal Office today organized Poster making competition at G. S. Memorial Public Sr. Sec. School, Zirakpur (Punjab) to spread awareness about “Say No to single use Plastics” initiative as a part of the Swachhta hi Sewa programme.

Gail Limited is the largest state-owned natural gas processing and distribution company in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi.Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. More broadly, it is the state of being conscious of something.Single-use plastics, or disposable plastics, are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.

 

These items are things like plastic bags, straws, coffee stirrers, soda and water bottles and most food packaging. We produce roughly 300 million tons of plastic each year and half of it is disposable! World-wide only 10-13% of plastic items are recycled. The nature of petroleum based disposable plastic makes it difficult to recycle and they have to add new virgin materials and chemicals to it to do so. Additionally there are a limited number of items that recycled plastic can be used.Petroleum based plastic is not biodegradable and usually goes into a landfill where it is buried or it gets into the water and finds it’s way into the ocean.

 

Although plastic will not biodegrade (decompose into natural substance like soil,) it will degrade (break down) into tiny particles after many years. In the process of breaking down, it releases toxic chemicals (additives that were used to shape and harden the plastic) which make their way into our food and water supply.Swachh Bharat Challenge is an initiative to share your experiences of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and invite other people to accept the challenge and join hands in the Abhiyan. You can open up the challenge to a maximum of nine persons and similarly, each of these nine persons can also challenge nine more this way the chain of activities would keep growing.