It’s no exaggeration to say that the earth is dying. With modest economic
growth, people want more and better food, more basic goods and luxuries, so
more resources like oil and water are needed to raise them. It’s a big problem
because there is a limit to Earth’s ability to replenish the resources. Even at
this moment, the environmentalists eager to find the solution for a sustainable
future. However, no one is concerned about everyday bad habit that seems to be
a little thing but could contribute to the destruction of nature. For example,
we need to pay attention to thousands of paper cups thrown away every day.
Saving trees and protecting nature from danger are two reasons for not using
paper cups.
One reason that we should not use paper cup is that if we reduce the use of
paper cups, we can save large amounts of trees. Paper cup, which has been
widely used in café, fast food restaurant, office, school and other places
where people are, is made from trees. According to a research conducted by the
Ministry of Environment, people used more than 286 million paper cups last
year. And to produce this enormous amount of paper cups, we cut almost one
million trees that are more than thirty years old. To think one 30-year-old
tree can remove five-kilogram carbon dioxide, it is tremendous losses.
Therefore, not using paper cup is good for the planet.
Another reason that we should not use paper cup is that it helps to protect
nature from danger. Most of paper cups are incinerated or buried after they
were used. When paper cups are incinerated, it is releasing poisonous gases
into the air. For example, greenhouse gases, which cause global warming, are
produced while we burn the paper cups. Besides, when we bury the paper cups,
the land is poisoned. According to the article from EBS, it takes twenty years
to biodegrade one paper cup. So, if we don’t use paper cups, we can preserve
our nature from the harm.
In conclusion, not using paper cup is a good way to ensure a sustainable future
because it save large amounts of trees, and it also protect nature from the
harm like air pollution, land pollution, and global warming. Relatively
speaking, not using paper cup can be considered a trivial matter in comparison
with other efforts for sustainable future, such as finding new energy resource.
However, I think we have to know these small actions could save the Earth and
our future. It’s not difficult to use reusable bottle and mug instead of paper
cup. Let’s do it. All of us can build our sustainable future.
I think reducing the uses of disposable plastic cups can be also a way of saving the envrionment. Moreover, we can take personal tumbler.
답글삭제I agree with you. In fact, when I began to write this essay, unlike paper cups, I thought it is no problem that we use plastic cups because I think plastic cups are not disposable. However, as you said, it's better to use personal tumbler than plastic cups because we can use tumbler more longer than plastic cups.
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