Dear sir/madam, I as a concerned citizen of this beautiful planet we call home,urge you, as a fellow-citizen of the same, to spare 3 minutes of your time to read carefully a few plastic usage figures I have presented below, as it is a critical factor that plays a role in the world we leave for our children. As of 2017, we had 9.2 billion tons of plastic that were manufactured. Of that, more than 6.9 billion tons was discarded off as waste..