Let's save it for us.

Our city life has being all about finding an easier way to do things, do things within shorter time. Go home quickly from work and go back to work in a very short time without a hassle on the next day.

In this busy life pattern polythene bags provide the best and the comfortable solution for our good carrying requirements. But it is a much known fact by all of us that this comfortable solution has started giving us problems now. All countries around the world trying so hard to battle this problem, as it is creating life threatening effects to all living things in the world.

Not so long ago Sri Lanka also imposed a policy to control the quality of the polythene that we use. Because the greatest problem with the polythene is, unlike other objects certain polythene structures are harder decomposing in the natural decompose process.

Here I am not going to talk about how polythene has become a problem to us, but how can we control this and reduce amount of polythene that we release into the environment.

Have you ever wondered how much of polythene bags that you use for a day? May be when you are going shopping, when you are going to the market. Some of you may answer very rarely that you use them. But think about when you are buying food from super markets, pastry shops or when you are buying certain products from the markets. Most of the time the person who stuff your goods into your bags may be packing may categorized them and put them in the different bags. Yes it is convenient but think he/she may be packing things into 2 or many bags that you would not mind even they were packed in one bag. There at that point you are increasing the usage of polythene by 2 or many times than you could manage with.  At that point if you can mention to the person that you don’t mind if he/she put certain goods in one bag. You are cutting down that extra release of polythene into the environment. I usually do it even when I am buying pastries from the pastry shop, I always mention  to use one bag to stuff my food if there is no situation that I should be separating them into 2 -3 bags.

If we can keep our grocery bags for another use, we are cutting down the amount of bags that we release to the environment. As one person we don’t see a big picture, but imagine, if we all are doing the same everyday. I am sure we can do a huge impact on the pollution that caused by polythene.

This is not for the future generation but for the rest of our lifetime. To live in a clean environment.

It is always harder to think about the future and save all to the future generation. Sometimes it may by frustrating, so why not just think about today and about us. Coz if we create a good life for us today. The generation who is inheriting the same from us will not have any problem. So what we save for us will be saved for the future.