In many countries, people are living in a "throwaway society" where things are used for a short time and thrown away. what are the causes of this and what problems does it lead to?
Individuals in many nations have started buying single-use items more often and
this
could have some serious implications for our planet. This
essay recognises that the "throwaway" tradition developed by societies in some countries is a result of companies
producing more disposable products
and our community's negligence towards the effects of embracing such
a culture. It then
attempts to highlight the main implications of this
practice- wastage of resources and harmful environmental impacts.
The main causes of the throwaway society
are attributed to the rising production
of single-use items by companies
and society
's obliviousness towards its impacts. The use-and-throw culture has slowly infiltrated our society
and established itself as a social trend. For example
, ever since plastic
has been
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companies
like Coca-Cola sell
their drinks in disposable Wrong verb form
have sold
plastic
bottles which are designed so attractively that they find increasing uses in parties and social gatherings. People also
find it irresistible to jump onto the bandwagon and buy such
products
instead
of wisely choosing their recyclable counterparts because this
generation has developed the ignorant mentality that they would rather have shiny and colourful plastic
bottles gracing their gatherings instead
of the more environment-friendly glass bottles.
The development of the throwaway culture has thus
inevitably led to problems, which mainly include high wastage of resources and global pollution. Most productions require resources often borrowed from nature. Due to
most things being treated like fast fashion, industries need to constantly procure a large number of raw materials for their production
processes to keep up with the global demand. Moreover
, the expeditious rate at which these products
are disposed of suggests that non-biodegradable waste like plastic
is constantly accumulating in the environment, polluting it. To incinerate these would also
produce a significant amount of carbon footprint, pushing the world one step closer to global warming. For example
, a report has recorded that Scottish households consume 130 kg of grocery packaging, which generates 650,000 tonnes of global production
emissions.
In conclusion, a throwaway society
is caused primarily by the mass production
of disposables by companies
and people's ignorant consumption of such
products
, which in turn leads to larger problems like global pollution and resource wastage.Submitted by sudipa.mishra on
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