All of the bags! I especially hate the "green" & "Eco-concious" reusable plastic bags that are placed as impulse buys near grocery store registers. Then people buy those and only use them once. Their car trunks, cabinets, and other storage areas become choked with all of these reusable plastic bags.

All of the bags! I especially hate the "green" & "Eco-concious" reusable plastic bags that are placed as impulse buys near grocery store registers. Then people buy those and only use them once. Their car trunks, cabinets, and other storage areas become choked with all of these reusable plastic bags.

The problem of plastic recycling still exists. People came up with a plastic "Frankenstein". Now Frankenstein threatens people's lives and the development of Nature.

Plastics should be used there where they provide such advantages which cannot be achieved with any other raw material or at higher environmental cost. Complex analyis of the consequences should be done (Life cycle Analysis). This is costly and time consuming but necessary. I always wonder when people talkig against the use of PVC: what they would do with the enormous amound of clhorined evolving in the chloro-alkaline prcess producing NaOH. (Tell me one more product which safely stores chlorine for decades). Withous NaOH there is no chemical industry, no drugs, no cleaning agents etc. Should we go back to the stone age? Well, with a few hundred millions of people surviving. Plastics recycling should be done wisely. I agree that those industries which collect the profit from plastics consupmtion (inlcuding produces, processors, packaging companies - and, of course the end-users) should pay the price of recycling.

it is an individual effort

Dear Mr. Dr Murugesan Muthu , That's right, all countries are thinking in that direction, struggling against plastic, in Indonesia today, plastic from household waste is processed into fuel and recycled, while only that and there is no other way. I even thought, could plastic be processed in such a way that it was formed into coral reefs on the seafloor ... after certain materials were combined into plastics that were not harmful to biota and life at sea. Regards.