The repercussions of
our action are, not by any law, immediate or prompt. It can only be felt over
the years. Most often, even our seemingly mundane activities have an enormous
impact on ourselves and our environment. For instance, writing with a ballpoint
pen.
Ballpoint pens, though
invented as a solution for the smearing and leakage problems of fountain pens,
have contributed to our oblivious efforts of destroying our planet. They are
made of plastics from top to bottom and from inside to outside and we are all
aware of how plastics harm the environment. They are non biodegradable and thus
cause land and ground water pollution. Burning plastic products releases toxic
fumes into the air which can cause cancer. Substantiating on these facts is the
bizarre truth that there is no known ways of recycling these used pens.
The figures too are
alarming. Americans alone buy a staggering 106 billion ballpoint pens annually.
It brings goose bumps to even imagine of how much more India and china, two of
the world’s most populous countries would be using. By September, 2005, Bics
Company alone had sold more than 100 billion ballpoint pens. What about the
other Ballpoint pen manufacturing companies? Imagine about the amount of
plastic waste we have generated. If placed end to end, this amount of ballpoint
pens would have been enough to circle the earth more than five hundred times.
Taking into
consideration all these impacts, Chheoden Lower Secondary School, located above
Lungtenphu RBA campus, has initiated a green move of banning the use of
ballpoint pens. Ballpoint pens have been replaced by the use of fountain pens.
Fountain pens can be used for many years. It needs less effort to write with
fountain pens and thus there is little danger of cramping. Fountain pen inks come
in bottles which can be recycled. This
makes it the ultimate Zero plastic guilt free writing method. Join us!!!!!!!!
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