Plastic returning to secretariat again!

Not so long ago, when the secretariat was a living canvas of an ambitious green vision. Free from the toxic scourge of polythene and single-use plastics, the complex successfully blazed a bold trail of environmental reform. As glass tumblers and jute-based alternatives quietly replaced plastic across conference rooms and office desks, they proved that profound institutional transformation is entirely possible whenever the state exerts its true will. Yet, as the relentless tide of time eroded that initial resolve, the ugly grip of plastic, according to a report published in a Bengali daily yesterday, quietly reclaimed the corridors of power, a situation that is both distressing and deeply concerning.
When a hard-won environmental policy collapses precisely at the epicentre of national policymaking, the message it conveys to the citizens becomes dishearteningly bleak. Although strict security checks once confiscated plastic bottles at every gateway to set an uncompromising standard of stewardship, those monitoring teams have now grown dormant while administrative apathy has reclaimed its throne. While plastic bottles once again adorn the desks of ministers and high-ranking officials, this resurgence is indeed a bitter mockery of the state’s own commitments.
For long, plastic has been a curse inflicted by humanity upon nature. It is known to all that single-use plastics stays within the vulnerable layers of the earth for centuries before finally drifting through rivers and lands to settle upon the ocean floor. Moreover, as many recent researchers unveil, these fragments gradually fracture into microscopic particles and insidiously infiltrate our food chain, winding their way into human bloodstreams and cellular structures. In the face of a dire crisis, the unchecked prevalence of plastic within the state’s highest office is utterly unacceptable. 
This grave environmental crisis cannot be tackled merely by issuing verbal directives or conducting sporadic enforcement drives, unless the state implements strict systemic discipline within its own administrative quarters. Given that, the reckless resurgence of plastic within the secretariat is much more than a routine institutional failure. It is a profound betrayal of the generations who will inherit this earth. Unless we decisively break free from this self-destructive inertia before the sands of time run out, our reckless dependence on plastic will push the entire nation towards an irreversible ruin.