Vanik was a small merchant in a seaside town. One day an inventor named Ving came meet him. He showed Vanik a new type of material. Vanik quickly realised the potential of this new material and bought the invention from Ving. He began to produce this material on a small scale and sold it from his shop. He called the material plastic. It could be used to make any household item a person wants. Plastic became very popular and sold very fast. Vanik couldn’t keep up with the demand. He set up a bigger factory to produce more plastic. At that time Ving came back to see Vanik.

“Vanik. You must stop producing plastic. It is a very dangerous material. Nobody can destroy it. Someday sooner or later it is going to destroy all of us in the world that we live in.” said Ving.

Vanik realised the truth but the money was too good to stop selling plastic.

“I agree with you Ving. I am working on a weapon that can destroy plastic once its use is over. You don’t have to worry about it.” Vanik lied to Ving.

Vanik went ahead and began to produce more plastic....