By Hassan I. Conteh

“Let them replace the plastics with handbags if they want to remove plastics use,” says one Isata Kamara.

This tells how difficult it is with Sierra Leone and Africa campaign against single plastics use.

Sierra Leone is one of the poorest nations in Africa and in the world.

So, since its human population depends largely on import goods, it sounds impossible for the nation to minimize its use of plastics.

The use of plastics has a dire consequences for planet earth – lands and oceans.

Animals and other kinds of species and useful organisms in the soils get endanged by plastics thrown away in landfills environments. Waterbodies such as the rivers, seas, oceans are being destroyed by the amounts of plastics thrown into the seas. The precious sea creatures ( crabs, ostriches, seahorses) are killed day by day in the seas by large plastics and the rubbish thrown into our seas.

In the lands, sheep, goats, pigs, can sometimes die slowly when eaten grasses woven by plastics.

To control plastics use, government of Kenya and lately government of Sierra Leone have signed out plastic legislations in order to cut out the rate of their citizens use of plastics.

But the campaign to inform people about plastic effects on animals is still at a low-ebb in Sierra Leone.

Lots of people don’t know how dangerous plastics are to animals on the land and to creatures in the seas and in the oceans.

Not only plastics are a risk to animals but also to people who depend on fish and animals for food.

If more and more fish and animals die today, man will have little food to eat tomorrow.

If we cannot wipe out plastic use so quickly, let there be other solutions like industries producing more handbags for marketers or shoppers.