Plastic Pollution: A Global Problem from a Local Perspective

Plastic is a necessary evil of current times. It is ubiquitous in modern time's cape, from polythene bags for daily shopping to PVC pipes, from kitchenware to pet bottles; plastic and its associated derivatives lands up everywhere. However, poor management of plastic waste is burying us in every corner of our blue planet right from the shores of Arabian Sea to the tropical paradise of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, from mighty Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef along the coasts of Australia.