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The Holy Qur’an gives us the good news that Allah has made us the Khalifas or guardians on this earth. And this is a major responsibility that he has placed upon our shoulders. While it is our duty to promote his religion on earth we pay little attention to the damage that we are causing to the earth itself.
One of the greatest source of destruction and damage to the beautiful earth is from the tons and tons of plastic that we each use everyday without sparing a single thought on how it is harming the environment and polluting not only our land but also our seas and other water bodies.
The damage is colossal and the situation that we are creating for our children is unimaginable. Plastic is essentially non biodegradable i.e. to say that when it lands in the sea or gets imbedded in the land it does not decompose. It lies there for years together. The table below shows how much plastic we are using each day and the damage that it is causing. It deprives the land the ability to grow food as it blocks air and nutrients which are so essential for the plants to grow from entering into the soil. In the same way when the plastic lands into the sea, the fishes unknowingly eat it or choke in it. This is endangering sea life. A day might just come when we will be left our children may left with no plant animal or sea food to eat. There will be only death and destruction.
While this scenario looks very bleak and scary the truth may not be far from it unless we all act together today. Let us pledge to reduce the use of plastic bags especially flimsy disposable ones. Let us do our duty as the Khalifas of this earth and also earn reward inshallah.
Quick Facts on Plastic Pollution
• A plastic milk jug takes 1 million years to decompose.
• A plastic cup can take 50 - 80 years to decompose.
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1 million sea creatures every year.
• Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every HOUR.
• An estimated 14 billion pounds of trash, much of it plastic is dumped in the world’s oceans every year.
• The worldwide fishing industry dumps an estimated 150,000 tons of plastic into the ocean each year, including packaging, plastic nets, lines, and buoys.
• Nearly every piece of plastic EVER made still exists today.
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