Nowadays we are producing more and more rubbish. Why do you think this is happening? What can governments do to help reduce the amount of rubbish produced?

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Earth is
such
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a beautiful place with so many different varieties of plant and wildlife. But
today
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in the 21st
century we
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century, we
are facing a major threat with regard to the disposal of various kinds of
waste
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which is left behind by the human race.
Waste
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generating from domestic, industrial, automobiles, IT
etc
continuing in the same way
etc.
are all harming
Earth
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the Earth
to a very bad extent. In the olden days when something was broken, people used to get it repaired and
use
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it again, but that’s not the case with the generation
today
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who just dispose it off and buy a
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set of the same thing. In the early 19th and 20th century, the total amount of rubbish/garbage generated across the world was far lesser than the amount of
waste
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generated just by the IT sector
today
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. Earlier most
waste
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could be disposed
off
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of
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a way that, they didn’t harm the environment at all. But the
waste
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generated
today
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harm the environment, plants and wildlife in a very adverse way, thereby making us wonder as to have a permanent fix to
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grave concern. People now a day’s
use
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so much single
use
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plastic which is one of the worst forms of garbage as it takes ages to degenerate or decompose. Almost anything and everything we buy and
use
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comes in single
use
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plastics which should raise an alarm for an action to be taken.
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the kind of
electronic
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electronics
(
specially
to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
especially
IT and related stuffs)
waste
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being generated, right from computers to mobile batteries to televisions are all only adding to the chaos. One example that comes into my mind often is the footwear we
use
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, in
earlier we
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earlier, we
had cobblers who could be found in every city to mend broken footwear’s, but
today
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most people prefer to buy a new footwear over repairing an old used product. The higher purchasing capacity and the fast pace of life in the 21st century has made people
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at
least bother about used and old stuffs.
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, the
government’s
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governments
government
today
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have a very important role to play, wherein they should probably give subsidy, tax benefits or compensate the companies, that are ready to take up recycling of used and discarded products to make new products. For
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as an example
e.g.
egg
paper, plastic, clothes, automobiles and various other daily
use
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products which we are highly dependent upon can be refurbished into something new and usable. Governments should
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create awareness by advertising in daily newspapers and televisions about the negative impacts that
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present careless attitude of the people is creating for them and their future generations too.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • consumerism
  • disposable culture
  • over-packaging
  • non-recyclable
  • public awareness
  • waste management
  • environmental impact
  • recycle
  • recycling facilities
  • waste separation
  • single-use products
  • infrastructure
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