OK, just last month, Ajay from our society bought a shining new car. He met us, distributed sweets, threw a small party for his newly acquired possession. We ate, drank, couldn't stop appreciating the power, looks, bhp and the food & wine & all other sundry things that we knew about the automobiles. For a moment I thought everyone in the room knew so much about automobiles that I probably was the only person who knew so less and was hardly able to cope up with the bhp's, and the torque's and any of the auto lingo. I started feeling I was at Detroit to attend a party.
Incidentally his car park is just next to mine and I have been seeing his car for all this while. The newness is still there, it still shines and looks like a brand new car which he just bought yesterday. And the reason for that is the PLASTIC again. The car seats, handle bars, gear knob, and anything & everything inside the car is still wrapped in the plastic that was there when he bought the car. I don't think he plans to remove the plastic atleast for the next one year or little more than that. After all its a new car damn it.
I was going through a report which talks about USA being the largest consumer of plastic with per capita plastic consumption being a little more than 20 kgs. I would beg to differ here as I strongly feel that India has the largest per capita consumption of plastic in the world the only difference being that we love to preserve plastics The buckets in our house, the dustbins, the kitchen storage bins, the plastic bags and everything else in plastic has been there from the time we bought it which could be a decade or more.
We Indians strongly believe in the adage: If it ain't broken, don't mend it.
Hail PLASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!
Nilesh Ghai
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