Writing and environmental story

Plastic bags and environment

When I was a student in Middle School, we had to go public field for
celebration of Union day. We all students were happy because we could escape
from the class and we went there making time along the way.

We ate some snacks and threw all the plastic bags beside the road.
More over after we finished the program we were provided some sweet sticky
rice with a plastic bag. Then we just left the plastic bags there on the
ground. When we the students left I looked back and saw many colorful
plastic bags spread all over the ground. When the wind blew up, these
plastic bags were flied as a circle where the air carried them. By seeing
that I was enjoying for they looked like a kind of painting colorful
picture. During that time I did not know that this event will effect to our
environment.

Again when I plough the ground for planting vegetables in my garden, I
found many plastic bags down in the beneath of the ground. So I learned the
plastic can not be rotten and also can not melt the soil. As plastic bags
can take up to one thousand years to break down, it will remain if I do not
remove them.

Now I realized that all these were the careless behavior of the people
in protecting the environments. So, I collected and keep the plastic bags
after using them and put them in a place. As for the big plastic bags I use
them again as garbage bags at home and some useless ones for to start fire
for cooking.

As my father is a farmer he had two cows to plough the paddy fields. Every
day after finish plaguing, my father made them free to the pasture and they
come back by themselves every evening. Some years later one of our cows
getting thin slowly and did not went to eat much of food. That cow become
weak and could not get up anymore.

At last the cow died and we discovered that there were some plastic
bags in this cow’s stomach. Plastic bags once ingested cannot be digested
and remain stay in the cow’s gut. Plastic in an animal’s gut can prevent
food digestion and can lead to a very slow and painful death.

Therefore we have to be very careful when we use plastic bags and
should not throw them carelessly. We should have rubbish bin every where, so
we can put our rubbish. It is harmful for the creature those live in air,
land, water if the people use carelessly.

Therefore as human beings living in the world which need our care and
protection, we have to be very careful in using plastic bags and should not
throw them wherever we want to throw. If we are careful in using the plastic
bags that mean we are protecting our environment. If we are careless in this
case we will be the one who suffer because of the changes environment.

So I wish and pray everyone should take their own part in protecting our
environment by keeping probably all the plastic bags which we used.

Presented by Esther

Myanmar