Plastic Pollution

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Early this morning, I went our for a walk and I cannot believe what I saw - tons of plastic garbage being thrown out everywhere. Majority of the trashes that I saw was made of plastic and the most common ones were plastic water bottles, candy wrappers, bags, even slippers. Plastic products are everywhere and it seems like we cannot escape from them. People all over the world are using plastic keyboards, chairs. Even the laptop that I'm currently using is made of plastic, your cellphone case is also made of this. I am not an expert of statistics, but the fact that 50 percent of the plastic we use once are just being thrown away, and where do these would go to? Our oceans and seas and this is absolutely alarming because those sea creatures are suffering from tons of garbage that would take forever to decompose. It's really a sad reality but not everyone's doing something to stop it. Whenever I do my grocery shopping, I always bring a bag made from recycled materials so I do not have to ask for plastic bags and sometimes I ask for a box of carton, at least it's biodegradable. I am glad that there are people who are doing the "reduce, reuse, recycle" strategy - Japan is really good at it. It takes more patience and determination to do it especially if you haven't done it before but it's worth it. In the end, who are we going to blame for the pollution in our planet?