Plastic bags, plastic bottles and plastic packaging are bad for the environment. What damage does plastic do to the environment? What can be done by governments and individuals to solve this problem?

From shopping

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to water bottles,

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is a necessary material for our society today. Since

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protocol was held in Japan more than 10 years ago, the number of nations that are trying to reduce the production of

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increased. Especially many countries in

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have succeeded to cut

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recent years. Japan,

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, is one nation that still heavily

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on

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and hardly foresee a future without

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.

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essay is going to discuss

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the damage towards

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environment

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that

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triggered by

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in the

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half and will point out some ideas to solve

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problem in the latter half. The damage that

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caused

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to the

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is enormous. One of the negative effects is the emission of dioxin when burnt. Not only

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dioxin is hazardous to our health but

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it will accumulate in our bodies. Managing

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waste

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is

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a serious problem

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Southeast Asia. Tons of plastics from China and Malaysia are thrown away illegally and end up floating in the ocean. Small

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will break down into pieces as the sunlight pours and these wastes will become microplastic. Small fish will

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swallow these tiny fragments and end up accumulating microplastic. Since we are

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the top of the food chain, it is obvious that plastics that we throw away into the ocean will eventually influx into our

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. It is very important to be able to stop

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action of contaminating the sea with

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. Despite that it is very difficult to get rid of

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in

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era, I believe that

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goal can be accomplished if the

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follow the

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two steps.

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, I believe that the

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should invest more

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the companies that create materials to

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an alternative material that can be substituted by

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. Since

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bags

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are too convenient in Japan, it was hard to get rid of

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, but today it is not that rare to see a stone

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.

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is a

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that is

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made from stone, and

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is slightly heavier than a

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bag

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.

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, its’ resistance towards water is much better than paper so many people are thinking that

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would be the

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bags

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’ substitution. If the

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continues to invest

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, many companies are able to create new materials that can be an alternative option for

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bag

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.

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, allowing the

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to fine

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will help

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society to reduce

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waste

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. Five years ago, the Japanese

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allowed all supermarkets to charge

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bags

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to cut

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waste

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.

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turn out to be a success and reduced more than half of

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. Even though

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bags

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are convenient, customers rather use their own shopping

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because they do not want to pay

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. The damage to the

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caused by

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is enormous and cannot be erased.

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, it can be alleviated by substituting

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to

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other materials.

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can achieve

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goal by investing more

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on

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area or fining more

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. If these

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have been acted, I believe that there will be less

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polluting the sea and

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environment

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will appear.