Method in madness
On World Environment Day this year, the Gas Authority of India Limited (gail) spent a small fortune issuing a colour advertisement in newspapers urging us to use plastic. gail wanted us to know this: by using plastic, we would save 20 million trees matured over 10 years especially for packaging purposes.
What could one make of this? Is using plastic a good way to conserve our forest wealth? In India, we co-exist in two worlds