Shreya Gopinathan
Innovation of plastics and its use has made human life more comfortable , and now it has became a unavoidable part of our life . We are making our lives more comfortable but, never thought about the environment and the other livings beings.
The inventions and technologies which we are developing to make our life comfortable are threats for other living beings on the earth and human beings are not bothered about it. We are destructing the earth and other fellow beings and it causes ecological imbalances. Infact, we are not ingesting the truth that these materials are threat for our existence too.
Here are some photographs which shows how deeply these man made objects has effected the lives of other beings.
People usually dump the waste in barren lands, in deep ocean or else they will burn it , and it is recently the process of recycling has begun. Disposing of the wastes are killing thousands of aquatic and land animals also. Especially, in case of aquatic animals, they eat the plastics and other wastes which leads to their deaths.
Tens of thousands of whales, birds, seals and turtles are killed every year from litter of plastic things in the marine environment. These animals often mistakes these materials as their preys such as jellyfish.
For the break down of plastics, it takes thousands of years , if a animal dies of ingesting plastic, after the decay of these animals the plastic is freed to the marine environment and may kill other animals.
(Photos taken from the facebook page of Photography)