RECYCLE, REUSE, REDUCE

    "Recycle, Reuse, Reduce" ,These three words are often seen written on the shopping bags. Not the shopping bags of polythene but those made of paper, jute etc. These are not just words from dictionary but they show public service message. A message to save the planet in the future.
     For the last few decades it has been seen that the researchers have been trying to demise any mean by which the pollution can be controlled. Pollution is a global issue and efforts are being made to over come this problem, as it has become havoc for man kind. Not only the existing human beings are facing critical situations but because of current scenario the future of the up coming generation is also in danger.
     There are various factors to cause pollution, like factory waste dumps, burning of fuel, throwing harmful chemicals in oceans and seas etc etc.One of the factor causing pollution is the use of polythene bags. Most of the people are unaware about the fact that there is no recycling process of the polythene bags.
     These bags got banned in the first world countries many years back and they switched to the paper bags. Though the paper bags can be recycled and  reused but they have one big problem The cutting of trees so frequently is rising the temperature of the earth. Deforestation also have other harmful aspects like, major cause of drought, emergence of various diseases, decline in natural beauty etc. Hence it was not considered a suitable utility to carry grocery and other things. Though the use of polythene and plastic bags is still a common practice in most of the countries.

     Now a days the ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY PAPER BAGS are being tried to introduce to reduce the pollution. Such bags could be of different materials. For example, they may be made of cotton, jute, canvas etc.
 The idea behind this effort is:

• To avail the utility from a single bag repeatedly,  which is REUSE.
• When the bag is worn out, it is trashed for RECYCLE.
• As the bags will be used over and over their will be not much dumping, which is REDUCE.

   By the use of Eco Friendly Bags, less energy will be consumed in production, more utilization can be generated, percentage of contribution can be made in some how controlling the pollution etc. The environment friendly bags are easy to use as well and have greater capacity to carry the grocery.
    Almost all  the countries have banned the use of the plastic and polythene bags but still the third world countries use them. Efforts must be made to properly the the usage of these bags. There is a strong need to bring awareness among the people to discourage them to use the plastic bags and go for the Eco Friendly Bags.

  The awareness can be generated by adopting following means:

• There is a need to raise a strong campaign  to introduce the Environment friendly bags.
• Print and paper media must be used for advertisement of these bags.
• The stores and shopping malls must replace the plastic bags with the Eco Friendly bags.
• Tax percentage on the production of polythene and plastic must be raised.

  By the use of Eco Friendly Bags, we can save our present healthy environment and can also clean the planet to make it a better place for the coming generations to live in and enjoy.