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Image source: https://www.motherjones.com/ Did you know... ...Plastic waste takes anywhere between 500-1000 years to degrade. ...50% of the plastic we consume is single-use plastic. ...Only a very small percentage of the tons of plastic that is produced ever gets recycled; most of it ends up in our oceans. That plastic is detrimental to our planet and is already encroaching into our food chain is common knowledge. But have we done much to reduce our contribution to the trash? Despite more and more people becoming aware about the adversities of plastic pollution, so few actually do anything to reduce their plastic consumption. I think the war we are waging is against habit. That old darn habit. Walk into the supermarket, walk out with a can of soda...in a plastic bag... habit. That old darn habit. The other hurdle that companies like Avani  ( founded by an entrepreneur from Bali ) are trying to cross is the cost factor . "The cost of biodegradable cutlery is about 30

This painted mural at the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial depicts the horrors of April 13, 1919 99 years ago on this very day, thousands of innocent Indians were shot and killed by armed British forces in Amritsar, and to date there has been no formal apology from Britain. So what really happened... The ground zero was Jallianwala Bagh. Around 15,000 men, women and children had gathered at this open public space on Baisakhi Day to protest the Rowlatt Act (an Act that empowered authorities to imprison without trial). Upon learning of this gathering, General Edward Henry Dyer rounded up a troop of 50 men armed with 1,650 bullets who were instructed to fire at the chests of the Indians until the last bullet was fired. They sealed the only two exits of the Bagh, then the size of three football fields surrounded by homes. Without any warning, rounds were fired and with all the exists sealed by the troops, to escape the bullets, many died jumping into a well or in t