Global warming has been an issues that people are very "concerned" about for the past decades. Although lots of work has been done to reduce the problems, the global temperature never decrease at all. Instead, it has been increasing. People has been producing more greenhouse gases ever the industrial era. It adds on the natural deforestation Natural disasters such as heat waves and drought are happening more often than ever. To certain extent, it became life threatening to a number of countries. It is thus crucial that the occupants of the earth do take good care of it before it is health gets depleted continuously.
Countries' leaders play a major role in reducing the problems of global warming. Policy such "Bring Your Own Bag Day (BYOBD)" will help in reducing the usage of plastic bags which in turn reduce the greenhouse gases produced when the plastic bags are incinerated.
National Environmental Agency (NEA) and Singapore Environmental Council (SEC) had launched the BYOBD on 18 April 2007. The main supermarkets in Singapore collaborated with NEA and SEC with the new policy to help in reducing the usage of plastic bags. For every first Wednesday of the month, supermarkets such as Carrefour, Cold Storage, Giant, NTUC FairPrice, Prime Supermarket, Sheng Siong and Shop N Save will not be issuing plastic bags to customers, either they use their own bags or paid an amount for the plastic bags.
Based one of the reports from the Channelnewsasia.com, on the first BYOBD, Singapore managed to save an estimated amount of 100,000 of plastic bags. NTUC and Cold Storage had cut its plastic bags up to 60 percent on that day. Usage of plastic will be reduced further and this policy will also serve as a reminder that it is every one's responsibility to take care of the environment.
Government plays a key role in setting policies in reducing problems of global warming. However, it takes two to tango. If majority of the people are not going to do his part, no matter how robust the policy is, global warming will continue to threaten out stay on the earth.
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ReplyDeleteOn this post, I share my thoughts on your two entries. (a) It is heartening to know how consumers and the rest of the public have responded to institutional projects on addressing the climate crisis. Imagine how much an entire population can do to save the environment if everyone cooperates! (b) On the first blog entry, you seem to have gotten lost in answering the prompt, and I cannot quite understand what you are driving at. (c) Let me suggest that you spend more time on completing grammar exercises to improve the comprehensibility of your sentences.
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