Our school, the Norman E. Day School, serves milk in plastic containers every school day. Unfortunately, all of them are thrown away after use. The consequence of this is that, it not only causes waste of natural resources, but also results in serious environmental pollution. Plastic uses a lot of oil to make and oil is expensive and getting scarcer every day. Plastic waste takes tens of years to decompose. If we continue to throw them away carelessly, our living environment would be full of these dirty objects. I think it is a very good idea to recycle these milk containers.
Here I have a plan; I suggest that, first of all, our school provides recycle bins in the cafeteria to collect these used bottles. Secondly, we also need signs to remind people to put the used bottles into the recycle bins, rather than throwing them into the trash cans. When we collect enough bottles, the school should contact the recycling company to pick them up.
To make my plan work, our school should consider the following aspects: First, The overall size of the recycle bins must be large enough to hold a full day’s worth of bottles, otherwise some of the bottles might be thrown away. Secondly, as a way to encourage recycling, our school may consider setting up an incentive policy such as a holding a school-wide activity or party once we reach a certain goal. Thirdly, we should keep educating our students about the dangers of environmental pollution and costs of resource wasting, and let them realize that helping the earth is helping themselves.
If we follow these plans and keep recycling, our school will become a role model to other schools and organizations in protecting our beautiful world. So what are we waiting for? Let’s do it!
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