By: Mia DeAmicis
Background: India is a country located in the southern half of Asia. About 1.4 billion people live in India, and 1.5 million people visit India every year as tourists. People go to India to see the many famous palaces, including the Taj Mahal and the Amber Palace. But one other reason why people go to India is the interest in high-end and unique shopping. The most common items that people go to India to buy is the Indian clothing, jewelry, and tea. But the more people come to India the most bags need to be made to carry all the items that are sold. With tons of plastic being used in India every year, people have started mistreating the plastic when they dispose of them. This causes pollution in India and has been causing major problems in the Southern region. They are getting to the point where they can not support the amount of plastic bags.
What's Happening: Currently, India is having many of the tourists leaving their plastic bags around the cities, and not in recycling bins where they can be re-used. Less than a fifth of all plastic that is used globally is recycled, and that's less than 10 percent in the United States. A city in India called Tamil Nadu banned over 14 types of plastic in the city. It is home to nearly 68 million people, and the word of the banned plastic spread all over the Southernmost part of India. Eventually, Tamil Nadu became part of an ambitious national campaign to get rid of the world's plastic waste. India also hosted the United Nations' World Environment Day, and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an intention to get rid of single-use plastic by 2022.
My Opinion: I think that banning the plastic in India will help reduce the amount of waste in India and the overall environment. They will have o find a way to control the amount of people that come into India and the amount of plastic that is brought in by tourists, because that is a big part of the problem. Despite all this, I think that this is a great start to finding a solution to fix the plastic problem. India taking action will hopefully inspire other countries to do the same.
Related to Social Studies: This topic relates to social studies because in this previous unit, we have been talking about how to keep our world sustainable. Sustainable means keeping something at a certain rate or level, and in this case, keeping our earth healthy. One way that we have learned that we can keep our world sustainable is to lower the amount of pollution that we put into the earth, air, and oceans. If plastic usage goes down in India, and all over the world, it would make it more sustainable for people and animals.
Sources:
Main Articl: Yasaswini Sampathkumar, "Plastic bans spread in India. Winners and losers aren't who you'd expect", National Geographic, np, February 8, 2019, May 8, 2019.
| The Taj Mahal in Agra, India |
What's Happening: Currently, India is having many of the tourists leaving their plastic bags around the cities, and not in recycling bins where they can be re-used. Less than a fifth of all plastic that is used globally is recycled, and that's less than 10 percent in the United States. A city in India called Tamil Nadu banned over 14 types of plastic in the city. It is home to nearly 68 million people, and the word of the banned plastic spread all over the Southernmost part of India. Eventually, Tamil Nadu became part of an ambitious national campaign to get rid of the world's plastic waste. India also hosted the United Nations' World Environment Day, and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an intention to get rid of single-use plastic by 2022.
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| Local people in India picking up thousands of plastic bags tossed on the ground |
My Opinion: I think that banning the plastic in India will help reduce the amount of waste in India and the overall environment. They will have o find a way to control the amount of people that come into India and the amount of plastic that is brought in by tourists, because that is a big part of the problem. Despite all this, I think that this is a great start to finding a solution to fix the plastic problem. India taking action will hopefully inspire other countries to do the same.
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| An image of India with a clean environment |
Sources:
Main Articl: Yasaswini Sampathkumar, "Plastic bans spread in India. Winners and losers aren't who you'd expect", National Geographic, np, February 8, 2019, May 8, 2019.
I really like the photos you included, as well as the relation to social studies.
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ReplyDeleteI love how you shared your opinion. It really showed another perspective on the topic.Great work!!
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I like how you go into so much detail in the background knowledge to help us better understand
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed all the pictures you added.
ReplyDeleteI love how you added background information, it was super helpful while reading! Great job!!
ReplyDeleteThis pictures were really good and I really like how this relates to sustainability. I actually did a similar topic about a small island in Italy who banned plastic bags, bottles and such
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed how you related it to our sustainability unit
ReplyDeleteMia,
ReplyDeleteI loved how you incorporated all your information. I enjoyed reading your blog post due to your visuals. I also really liked how you related your post to social studies curriculum! Overall, really nicely done!
I like how you added pictures that go with the paragraph you wrote. I also agree with your opinion and I think it's good.
ReplyDeleteI like how you added background information in the beginning
ReplyDeleteI like how you chose plastic and pollution to connect to social studies. I also really liked the visuals/pictures you posted with it.
ReplyDeleteHey Mia, I liked how you made sure to add as much background as you could. It really helped transition into the real problem.
ReplyDeletei liked how you added your opinion👍
ReplyDeleteYour current events bring awareness to some of the things our world is already doing to help clean and keep the environment healthy. One thing you could do better is citing more sources so your information comes from different articles/opinions.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I enjoyed was that you organized yours into segments. Second thing I liked is that you gave context to what you were talking about, his helped me understand the problem.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you organize your information into separate sections and analyzed many things in order to explain to the reader very well about what the situation is. You made sure that the reader understood about the topic that they were reading about. One thing you could do is fix that Tamil Nadu is a city. Tamil Nadu is a state in India. Good job!
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