Tips To Reduce Plastic Waste

Did you know that 500 million to 1 billion plastic bags consumed by worldwide for each year. This means, almost reached 1 million plastic bags per minute. Of course this is becoming one of the causes of damage to our environment.

An impression on TV said that a plastic waste that is equivalent to the use of fuel to run a small car above 115 meters far. Even some countries in the world has regarding the use of plastic bags regulations, such as introducing Ireland “plastax” 15 cents on plastic bags will reduce the use of material that is 90%.

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Denmark has been start in 1994 with the income tax with a goal to reduce the use of bag-paper and plastic bags as much as 66%. In 2005, the members of the board of representatives of the people in France unanimously voted to prohibit plastic bags that cannot destroy. Italy has also passed a similar law for the prohibition, which will begin in 2010.

Are we already aware of how many plastic bags we use in everyday life that is truly can contaminate the environment?

Here tips to reduce plastic waste:

• Use your travel mug when go to workplace, college or school. So you do not need to buy a drink in packaging. In addition, your travel mug can maintain warm drink wherever you are. For example, fill with hot coffee, milk, hot chocolate, tea and act. And certainly more delicious and you can reduce the amount of waste, especially beverage packaging waste.

• Bring your own plastic bags from home or in a large number of necessary and sufficient to plan when to shop. Or you can provide a special shopping bag, so it does not need to use plastic bags from shops or supermarkets. Even if you have to use plastic bags, keep this plastic bag neatly, so you can use it later. This can reduce the amount of plastic consumption.

• Don’t burn the plastic waste, because it can cause air pollution and poisoned the land.

• Don’t use any packaging based from plastic to carry or conceal rice or other food. Use a banana leaf or hamper.

• Don’t dispose of waste (particularly plastic waste) in any place, but place them in the special plastic trash for plastic waste. Because of this waste plastic will be recycling.

Hope it’s useful for ourselves, other people, our children and grandchildren to forgive even the earth that we stand for.

Source: jakartagreenmonster.com

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