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Since the beginning of the pandemic, fossil fuel and plastic industry groups have been vocally advocating the use of single-use plastics, packaging and bags citing that reusable bags and food containers can potentially spread the Corona Virus. Encouraging customers to preferably choose, allegedly safer single-use plastics like disposable cutlery, bags etc. is nothing but a hoax in making. As the COVID-19 virus spreads across the country, single-use plastics will only become more vital. We live longer, healthier, and better because of single-use plastics. – Mr. Tony Radoszewski, President and CEO, Plastic Industry Association Single-use plastic is seen as a first line of defense

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These mere words of Dr. King weren’t just an accumulation of thoughts for his fellow Clergymen from Birmingham Jail; they rather tell a story untold, that encompasses the entirety of our interdependence on each other as fragments of this planet. Planet’s well-being and our health are so intertwined in one another that they are inseparable to certain extent. Be it a link, through a pandemic such as COVID-19, as a result of the human

Our planet isn’t a mere coalition of seas and continents, it’s an amalgamation of existential efforts of each and every species of flora and fauna that has graced this very planet; these efforts are what makes up Earth, what it is. Climate change is the single biggest catastrophe to have impacted our planet in more than 4.5 billion years of its lifetime. Today, it isn’t just impacting human race’s survival but it is has also devastated ecological balance of the planet beyond the cusps of anyone’s imagination. One shouldn’t hesitate to call it the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. If climate change