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Waste disposal |
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20/05/08 (78 review reads) |
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Advantages: recycling helps the environment
Disadvantages: May be a hassle at the moment to recycle but please make an effort
The buzz word at the moment which appears in every newspaper and in every shop you go to is environment. Suddenly after hundreds of years of neglect the people of Great Britain have decided to do something to protect the earth for future generations rather than keep on destroying it. Is it me or does everybodies efforts seem to be falling a little bit short of the mark? The two main issues everybody seems to be bothered with are plastic bags and recycling household waste.
THE GREAT PLASTIC CARRIER BAG DEBATE!
Every shop you go into these days is offering you a reusable bag for your shoppping either still made of plastic (defeats the object slightly?) or a reusable material one for £2 to £5 on average. These material bags are wonderful ideas if people reuse them!! People I see when shopping and even members of my own family buy these bags to use once or twice then never take them out shopping again. On the other hand there are the people who completely defeat the object by filling these bags with their shopping from other places which has been put in carrier bags.
Why dont we take a leaf out of Irelands book and charge 5p for plastic bags or bag them in paper bags for free?
Please think twice before acepting a carrier bag next time you are out shopping, and think about the piles of empty ones that you have in the cupboard at home!
RECYCLING
Twice monthly collection of regular household waste has been a massive talking point all around the country recently most people disagreeing with it. In my opinon if recycling services were more up to scratch then they are at the minute this would not be a problem.
For example we have twice montly bins, weekly recycling of glass, plastic, card, paper, tins and cans and twice monthly collections of garden waste. We have full size black bins for general waste and tubs about a quarter of their size for the recycling. If the space allocated to us was more adequate we could cut our general waste in half and recycle twice as much.
I know recycling varies dramatically from place to place some worse some a lot better than what we have. The Government shouldnt leave the recycling to the local councils, every house in Britain should be under the same rules and have adequate facilities for disposing of their waste.
Some countries in Europe are charged per bag of waste they get rid of every month if this was the case in Britain I am sure people would make a lot more effort to cut down on their rubbish.
Waste disposal in this country is a load of rubbish!!
Summary: Recycling will help presrve this countries future!
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