Apr 18, 2023
Three Ways To Deal With Garbage Problem
Waste disposal is a global problem that cannot be solved satisfactorily. It is also a challenge for the future survival of Singapore. Of course, we should pay attention to the global warming caused by the destruction of the environment, and we must work hard to protect the earth. But these claims seem a little loud to the general public, so years of efforts to educate people about reducing waste and improving recycling have had little success. For many people, a one-meter rise in sea level and the bursting of landfill sites are in the future and far away, which cannot stop the behavior in the name of "ease and convenience". We should continue to educate and encourage people to recycle. Perusing the Environment Agency's 2021 statistics report, the low recycling rates are 39% for paper, 19% for food, 13% for glass, 6% for plastics and 4% for textiles. In the tropics, with no land and no agriculture, it's hard to compost kitchen waste and food, but if you recycle a few other household waste items properly, it can be a big deal. So in addition to simplifying the sorting of waste, the tax will be levied to reward the public's efforts in this regard, which may give rise to the "garbage collection" industry as in the early days. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the amount of waste generated by people living in big cities is increasing, with leading countries such as Denmark, Switzerland and the United States producing an average of 750 kilograms of waste per person per year. Singapore is not far behind with 490 kilograms of industrial and commercial waste (about 75 percent). If you look at the recycling rate, on the face of it, it's about 60 percent for us, nearly 70 percent for Denmark, and 80 percent for San Francisco, but those numbers tell a different story. Garbage disposal is a worldwide problem that can not be solved successfully, but also a challenge to our future existence. Fortunately, we still have the time and resources to explore solutions. Perhaps the next generation will have more time and space to respond to the waste problem through a combination of national rewards and penalties, a garbage tax, and more scientific research on waste disposal. There is no scale consumption market of renewable materials in our country, the costs of recycling treatment are high, the national awareness of recycling is not mature, and the amount of garbage produced because of the corruption and convenience is high. In this case, the road of recycling and environmental protection is a long obstacle. That said, current recycling is cumbersome and inefficient. Successful recycling depends on three basic steps: collection, sorting, and cleaning. It is not easy or convenient to properly classify, properly clean, and properly recycle. Moreover, according to German data, although their recycling rate is nearly 70%, less than 20% can be recycled and reused, and the rest is due to "debris pollution" in the process, which ...
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