Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement. To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?
The ways of making more
people
recycle is a topic of ongoing debate, with some arguing that the best approach is to legislate laws
, while
I firmly believe that more effective ways are existing, besides
legal requirements.
On the one hand, with laws
, people
are likely to follow them because they do not want to receive financial penalties. Moreover
, regulating by laws
makes people
change their perspectives about recycling from a hassle to a must thing, with more citizens performing that behaviour. To exemplify this
, a study has shown that a group which received fines when violating the strict rules reported fewer behaviours related to the rules. This
demonstrates that laws
will play a key role in encouraging people
to recycle their waste, decreasing the amount of domestic litter.
Nevertheless
, while
the effectiveness of laws
is undeniable, they are not sufficient to serve the purpose. This
is because some people
are willing to bear punishments after noncompliance, thinking that not following legal requirements is more convenient. In addition
, some do not know well how to recycle their garbage. Thus
, providing programs and education should be taken precedence, which will facilitate the effectiveness of laws
. For example
, after the administration in Gwangmyeong, which is one of the cities in Korea, released a video about the method of recycling and the necessity of it, an increasing number of residents recycled their waste rather than threw them away.
In conclusion, it is evident that laws
are able to control the amount of thrown wastes by making people
recycle. Even so, they are not the only way to this
purpose. Instead
, educating people
on recycling with videos and other materials will make legal requirements more useful to achieve their aim.Submitted by eunbi_0915 on
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