Reduce, reuse and recycle

The Gulf News recycling campaign is a wonderful initiative and it should continue (“The world is facing a plastic crisis”, April 14). We see that the awareness levels among people has to increase further, to bring about a culture wherein every citizen or human being contributes to the elimination of waste, and recycles. We are in a dire situation and we need to focus more on saving the planet. I go for a daily walk to the park in the neighbourhood and it is a horrible sight on Saturdays as the park has been ravaged by people on Friday.

There is food and plastic strewn around and it looks worse than a crash site. I can understand that the park employees take a lot of effort and make it a clean place, but sadly, the people who visit the park have not taken the responsibility to keep it clean. They can easily sort out the waste and avoid bringing lots of plastic. The park authorities will eventually charge everyone a normal fee and we all have to pay the tax because of

a few unworthy acts. We need to create more awareness and educate the public to do away with plastics.

I think India has been a pioneer in environment management. We have been using banana leaves for centuries and this is a bio degradable plate. We have used coconut shells as containers and I think this should be further studied and implemented wherever possible.

From Mr Murugesh S. S. Sivam Dubai