Things One must know !

Environment conscious & Maintain ecological balance
During the course of our visit to different areas, knowingly or unknowingly we harm nature by littering the areas, especially during our outings.

For example, when one goes for a picnic to a sanctuary, have fun with loud music (even though we know that loud music is prohibited in sanctuaries) and have food and leave all the litter and polythene here and there. This kind of act id highly irresponsible and deplorable, as it’s completely callous towards mother nature.

It’s not that we don’t have the knowledge of environment pollution but sometimes because of lack of awareness and responsibility, people harm Nature.
This is a small list of things with the time it takes to decompose each of them.

We thought of sharing the below message as a part of our efforts to make more number of people know about the damage due to such actions, so that before doing something like this, we should think – how long our act of foolishness will remain on earth.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO DECOMPOSE

Banana Peel- 3-4 weeks
Orange peels- 6 months
Apple Core- 2 months
Paper Bag- 1 month
Cardboard- 2 months
Milk Cartons- 5 years
Newspaper- 6 weeks
Paper Towel- 2-4 weeks
Cotton Glove- 3 months
Tinned Steel Can- 50 years
Aluminum Can- 200-500 years
Disposable Diapers- 550 years
Plastic Bags- 20-1000 years
Glass- 1-2 million years
Cigarette Butts- 10-12 years
Leather shoes- 25-40 years
Rubber-Boot Sole- 50-80 years
Plastic containers- 50-80 years
Monofilament Fishing Line- 600 years
Foamed Plastic Cups- 50 years
Wool Sock- 1-5 years
Plywood- 1-3 years
Plastic Bottles- 450 years

What You Can Do? Protecting the ecological balance is an issue that everybody can become involved in. You have the power to have a positive effect, no matter how small, in maintaining the delicate balance of the Earth’s ecosystem. Recycle to help prevent the over-harvesting of natural resources.