Nowadays ,disposable products are ubiquitous around the world, and they can be easily found in places like railway stations , hotels , restaurants and households. Typical of them are disposable chopsticks, tablecloths, plastic bags , toothbrushes,razors, diapers , and even single-use cameras. Both the concept and products of the throw-away culture came from overseas, and upon their arrival in China they were readily embraced by us Chinese people. Ever since then, the production and consumption of throw-away products have expanded at an incredible speed, spreading almost beyond control across the land in a maddening way.
Finally, we Chinese began to say “No”to throw-away products in all seriousness on January 9th, 2008 , when the State Council issued a decree that was to ban the production of the super-thin and low-quality plastic bags and require shoppers to either pay for plastic bags or to reuse old ones at stores and supermarkets, effective as from June 1st of that year. It was estimated then that as many as 3 billion plastic bags would be used if China each day, putting an unbearable burden on the nation's valuable resources and contributing to the ruin of the ecological environment. The government's move to save on natural resources and ease the pressures on our environment enjoys the ardent support of the general public.
To humankind as a whole, the appearance and spread of disposable products probably constitutes an ecological disaster. However,as such a disaster is poisoning our environment in a slow and unnoticeable manner, it can easily put people off guard. Over the past decade, a growing number of environmental protection activists have been raising their arms to wage war on disposable products - no one-time-use articles such as toothbrush, toothpaste, or soap are provided at hotels, no one-time-use chopsticks are available at restaurants , and no one-time-use free plastic shopping bags are offered to customers at supermarkets. Obviously, we can no longer afford to keep ourselves out of this worldwide anti-disposable-product effort. Indeed, as a big consumer country of one-time-use products, we should not shirk our responsibility.
Some people argue that the plastic was the worst invention ever made by humankind in the 20th century, and of all the things made of plastics, one-time plastic bags are by far the most harmful products to our ecology. To be sure, restricting the use of plastic bags may cause considerable inconvenience in our daily life. But such temporary inconveniences are nothing to us if we do want to get rid of pollution on our planet, see the return of blue water and blue sky,and leave to our posterity a clean earth.
Hopefully, rejecting the use of plastic shopping bags is just a good“No” to one-use products does not beginning, for the significance of saying merely lie in reducing the amount of “ white rubbish. ” More significantly, is meant to exert a powerful impact on the consumption habits,of the general public that has already taken single-use products for granted. Therefore , we must heighten our vigilance to put to a quick end the disaster of white pollution. This is not, only the mission of our generation ,but our cultural responsibility as well. In saying “No”to the throw-away culture, what we are giving up are our material dependence and psychological inertia, but what we are gaining are a beautiful environment and a beautiful mind.Let's stay away from single-use products in every way possible.
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