What is Pollution?

Pollution is defined as "the introduction of detrimental substances into the environment". This refers to many things including gases, foams, fertilizers and perhaps the most common, plastics. Just to label plastics as a form of pollution is not possible as plastic pollution can take many forms. It could be straws, plastic lids, water bottles, plastic bags and many more. Anywhere you walk today, you will see plastic pollution of some form. It could be rubbish on the ground, rubbish left on a table or someone just dropping it on the ground, not caring about the environment enough to put their rubbish in the bin. Just the other day, I saw a little boy eating something out of plastic packaging. When he finished eating, he simply threw his rubbish in the gutter and ran to catch up with his parents. This is appalling as the boy could not have been more than four. He will grow up, not believing that you should take the effort to throw rubbish in the bin, and when he has children, they will then follow their father, just adding to the pollution witnessed every day. Instead of helping the pollution epidemic, it will grow.