Questions and Answers from
Being Environmental Friendly
1. Where do we live?
= We live in the environment.
2. What is our responsibility?
= Our responsibility is to keep the environment neat and clean.
3. What do we see by the roadside?
= We see many heaps of garbage by the roadside which causes many diseases.
4. How do people throw their plastic bags? What is the result of it?
= People throw their wastes in the plastic bags and they are ingested by animals.
5. What happens when animals ingest plastic bags?
= Animals swallow plastic with food which is not digested and gives a feeling of fullness to all animals. They don't feel hungry. The animals stop eating, experience pain and suffer to die.
6. How do plastic causes harm to the environment?
= Plastic debris affects wildlife, human health and environment. Plastic is composed of major toxic pollutants, it has the potential to cause great harm to the environment in the form of air, water and land pollution.
7. Do plastic get decayed?
= Plastic is non-biodegradable and do not decay by biological action of microbes. They remain in the same state as we throw them.
8. What happens if we throw empty chips packet carelessly?
= If we throw empty chips packets carelessly, it flies and lands in a drain to block pipes and sanitary lines which leads to overflowing of dirty water on the roads. These careless activity causes fear of malaria, cholera and other diseases.
9. How do plastic pollute the sea or the ocean?
= The waste plastic bags, bottles, etc. are drawn to the sea or an ocean by rivers and they get deposited in them. They pollute and disturb the ecosystem of the sea or the ocean.
10. What is the plastic made from?
= The plastic is made from the expensive petroleum.
11. Why in our grocery bills a small amount is charged for plastic bags?
= This step has been taken to discourage the use of plastic. Now majority of people take their own bags to such shops.
12. What should we do next time we go to market?
= Next time we go to market, we should carry our own jute or cloth bag.