Plastic waste management in UK
What I read
According to in "All the plastic you can and cannot recycle"(2018) reports that, even though UK government have plastic recycle systems, the systems still have problems such as , plastic wastes in household sometime are contaminated with other wastes and hard to separate from each other , other problem is citizen can correctly define what are these plastic can even recycled or not .Another major problem is past several years government export contaminated plastic wastes to other counties ,but in 2018 there are countries that banned to import waste so, the government will come up with ideas to solve this problem in November.
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My response
Plastic wastes is one of my concerns because thailand is one of countries that generate most of plastic waste in the world,so I think thailand should have waste management system that good enough to separate waste form each other . Not only we need efficiently management system ,but also we should have policy that can reduce plastic used because in my opinion good management cannot be enough if wastes are much more than that we can mange it.
In my opinion plastic pollution will be one of the biggest problems that almost every countries around the world will face in next few years , so I think every country should have some levels of concerns or some kinds of policies that not only have excellent management systems we should develop some material that can be substitute for plastic.
In my opinion plastic pollution will be one of the biggest problems that almost every countries around the world will face in next few years , so I think every country should have some levels of concerns or some kinds of policies that not only have excellent management systems we should develop some material that can be substitute for plastic.
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My question
Are we have any technology that provide us to recycle plastic much more efficiently ?
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Reference
- (2018, September 21). All the plastic you can and cannot recycle. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45496884
As I read Play's post, I thought of my own experience with Tops supermarket. A few months ago, they started a policy of not providing plastic bags on the third of every month. I didn't know about it until I got to the checkout, and then we had a problem. Although I thought their idea reasonable, expecting customers to buy an expensive bag to reuse annoyed me, so I walked out without my groceries. I suspect a lot of other customers did the same thing because when I was there on the third this month, they were offering free paper bags and used boxes, which was more reasonable. But I was prepared this time. I had brought along a few plastic bags from previous visits that I was happy to reuse.
ReplyDeleteAt home, I always keep my plastic bags to use for garbage, but I collect more than I use, so other uses for them are welcome, and I don't mind folding a couple of bags and putting them in my pockets when I set off to do my daily supermarket shopping. Once a month seems a bit like a weak token gesture, but it's a start. I think a better solution would be for the state to charge a tax on every plastic bag that is high enough to cover the cost of properly disposing of the bag. Customers such as myself would then have the choice of paying it for new plastic bags or of bringing our own reused bags to save a few baht.
What do you think should be done in response to the issues that Play has invited us to think about?
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ReplyDeleteI am considering of this problems, too. After I had read your article, I realised that there are two main issues waiting for our movement. One is the inefficiency of waste management system. Another is people. For examples, Some cannot seperate the type of garbage. Some have a potential to do, but they don't feel like doing it. Also, some of my friends said that "why we have to put rubbish into the right trash bin since it will be thrown together at the end of the day?"
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of veiw, Japan can be a good example, in terms of garbage management and people instruction.The country has many innovative technologies that can really solve the problems. Moreover, the Japanese have been trained since they were young to manage the trash.
However, apart frome improving the system and educating people, what else do you think that we can do at the moment? Do you have any idea about a couple little things that can make a big change to our planet?