Plastic Waste
When Malaysia declared to return the waste to the senders, the message was clear. Shortly after the announcement, 11 expedition containers of Canadian plastics left Malaysia and were returning towards Canadian coastlines.
Canada is not the only nation that has received the punishment. In total, Malaysia has sent 150 expedition containers of similar plastic waste to their home countries. Along with this, the country's minister of environment stated that Malaysia was not the world's trash reserve.
Malaysia is not the sole country that rejected garbage, the Philippines made Canada reclaim 100 containers of plastics while Cambodia threatened to return 11 containers.
There are reasons behind desperately exporting plastic waste to other countries.
The first and central reason remains simple: Canada cannot manage the plastic waste that it produces.
Second, China has refused to take in most of the plastic waste from other countries since 2018.
This major country has been recycling one-third of the world's total plastic waste. When this happened, Canadian plastic had no where to go.
Canada produces about 3.3 million tons of plastic waste every year. About 2.8 million tons of that end up in landfills and only nine percent are recycled. The rest is incinerated, thrown away or exported. These wastes are left to damage the ecosystems by killing wildlife and releasing toxins to contaminate the environment.
There is one very important question on the table for all of us to answer: what will happen in the future?
Well, we have two options in front of us that will have totally different outcomes. We can either keep on using plastic and rely on it even more or reduce our plastic usage gradually. Consequences of status quo will be disastrous.
By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by biomass, and our descendants might not have a healthy environment to live in.
On the other hand, gradually decreasing our plastic consumption seems to be a feasible long term solution, with less pollution to the environment including air, land and water.
It is not easy to transition to a less-plastic lifestyle as old habits die hard, but this is something we have to do for the future generations.
So, what will you choose?
Will you let the future be with gigatons upon gigatons of trash, or will the threatening danger of plastic persuade you to have a positive impact on the environment?
作者：大通，加拿大，五年级
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