Plastics and Swatch Bharat

Plastic and plastic products have become part of our daily life. The plastic products, everything that we use today, from ordinary carry-bags to eating plates, injection syringes to surgical tools, chairs, tables, and numerous other electronic appliances, are used and disposed off so casually almost everywhere... Heaps of plastic are seen accumulated on roadsides, drainage, fields, forests, rivers, sea-shores, beaches and everywhere. It’s truly horrifying..!  

If we want to achieve cleanliness of our surroundings and eventually Swatch Bharat, first we must reduce or avoid indiscriminate use of plastic and plastic products. This move demands search for or development of a suitable degradable substitute for plastic. There are a few biodegradable products in use, in every area of our living, from catering to medical, but none of them has made a big headway as a total substitute to plastic. 

Search for a sustainable alternative to plastic should therefore be a priority area of interest....

D. Jayarama Bhat