India, Sept. 4 -- On World Environment Day 2018, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) brought out an informative publication along with other partners where it said: "Our planet is drowning in plastic pollution." It stated that while plastic has many valuable uses, we have become addicted to single-use or disposable plastic despite severe environmental consequences. For instance, around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while up to five trillion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year.

Overall, half of all the plastic bags produced are designed to be used only once and then just thrown away. Between the 1950s and the 70s, only a small quantity of plastic was produced. Hen...