Recycling

Q4. What can we do about plastic bags? Here are some ideas. Discuss which are the best, and give your reasons.

a) Give shoppers a recycling bag which they can use again and again.

b) Make shoppers pay for plastic bags.

c) Use bags made from recycling material.

d) Make supermarkets pay for recycling plastic bags.

e) Make it easy for shoppers to recycle old plastic bags.

f) Give shoppers a small amount of money when they use their own bags.

I think c) is the best way in a consumer's position, by the way I got this bag by a).

However, I often forget to bring it when going to shopping.

Some (or many?) supermarkets adopt the item f) by giving stamps for discount in future. It is glad frankly as one of service, but it might not be essence for recycling.

Recycling

I read this book, I felt again we should think recycling that we don't worry to live on the Earth. In Japan, we are recycling to divide rubbish when we throw away our rubbish recently. They are bins, plastic, cans and so on. But there wasn't this thinking thirty years ago.

I feel the people overeat and drink too much in Japan. There are a lot of resturant and convenience store in Japan, People buy things that more than enough food and drink. The things are packaged more than enough paper and plastic bag also.

I will start to do something for our earth.

Choose something that interests you about recycling. Find some more information about it. Design a bag with a recycling message that shoppers can use.

I think "Don't throw away me".

Recycling

I read Recycling. This story is very important for us. We must clean our Earth but I didn't think deeply. I recognize that we recycle many thing. I am going to bring my bag to a supermarket tomorrow.

4. What can we do about plastic bags? Here are some ideas. Discuss which are the best, and give your reasons.

Answer

・Make shoppers pay for plastic bags.

Reason

I think it becase people become not to buy plastic bags. In the result, we can reduce plastic bags.