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Today single-use products are still very common. What are the problems associated with this? What are some possible solutions?

#single-use #products
In
this
 day and age, most
of
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the
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people tend to use
single-use
products
.
This
 essay will discuss two main reasons why these
products
 are causing
problems
such
 as taking a long time to decompose and being harmful to the
environment
 and all species.
Then
, some solutions will be given to solve
this
 problem
such
 as producing biodegradable
single-use
products
 and bringing awareness to
the
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society about the impact of plastics on nature. Most of the
single-use
products
 are made of plastics and because of that, it will take hundreds of years for them to decompose. When someone consumes a
single-use
 item after it served its purpose, it’s no longer useful
thus
, it will be left as a waste product.
For instance
, disposable bottles containing water after consumption are left, which increases waste and leads the earth to a huge landfill.
Moreover
, producing
this
 number of wastes will put
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nature in danger. As it has been mentioned in recent research, about ten per cent of these wastes end up in the sea which is harmful to marine animals.
Also
, 25 per cent of
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 waste are left in nature which definitely has bad effects on the
environment
. That said, certain measures could be taken to decrease the harm to the
environment
 while the usage of
single-use
 goods is common.
First
, manufacturers should make eco-friendlier goods and
also
 encourage people to use these types of
products
. As a good step toward
this
 solution, Starbucks has made reusable paper and bamboo mugs that are used
instead
 of plastic ones.
Moreover
, if the governments try to increase knowledge and awareness among people about the bad effects of
single-use
 materials
to
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 the
environment
, these harms can be mitigated. All things considered,
however
 using
single-use
products
 is causing some
problems
, the tendency of using them is frequent. Not being recycled naturally and being harmful to the
environment
 were mentioned as two main
problems
 associated with
this
 trend.
This
 essay
also
 gave two solutions to these
problems
such
 as increasing the production of biodegradable
products
 and increasing knowledge and awareness of society about the damages to the
environment
 which are brought up by using
single-use
products
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • environmental pollution
  • landfills
  • ecosystems
  • resource depletion
  • decompose
  • throwaway culture
  • sustainability
  • eco-friendly alternatives
  • biodegradable
  • compostable
  • recycling
  • waste management
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