Topic: Land pollution in Hong Kong
As the world’s technology is developing rapidly, human’s' quality of life is improving. Humans builds taller buildings, hunts more animals for meals, and consume more natural resources to fulfill their needs. However, as more and more resources are consumed, more wastes are produced. In this second, this is a resource, but the next, you may find it in landfill. This cycle between resources and wastes are repeated every moment all around the world. Therefore, our topic is here, Lland pollution.
According to Global Britannica’s definition, land pollution means the deposition of solid or liquid waste materials on land, or underground, in a manner that can contaminate the soil and groundwater, threaten public health, and cause unsightly conditions and nuisancproblems. The sources of land pollution are: agricultural source, ashes, mining source, industrial source, garbage, construction and source, efortch. This shows that the action of simply throwing unwanted wastes into the bins and landfills can affect a lot!.
If you are wondering who the culprits are in this serious problem, after reading these articles, you may surely know the answer.
According to YAHOO! News, in 23rd July,2016, small-sized littering bins were used in Hong Kong for a month. The Government’s aim of changing the size of bins is to reduce the amount of household waste that citizens littered on street, however, this did n’ot help at all. Road cleaners reported that citizens would put their waste beside the small bin and make the whole street would become full of rubbish.
According to HK01 news, ion 31st July,2016, 300 Pokemon Go players gathered in Victoria Park to ‘catch pokemons’. They littered everywhere and the park cleaners reported that they even needed to use rubbish trucks to clear the messy, dirty roads.
According to i ??on 4th August,2016, although enclosed garbage chambers were built, without supervision, loads of garbage were seen on street. Kai Fong Welfare Associations in North and South Central Region reported that citizens scattered their household and industrial waste outside the garbage chamber for the sake of convenience, which made the street smelly and crowded with rubbish. Also, uUnder the hot temperature, mosquitoes and mice may also appear.
Up to here, do you know who’s are the culprits are in this serious problem? It’sThey are you, because of your selfish act, the street was full of smelly garbage, environment was worsen, germs were spreaded, sickness appeared, people were sick. However, your mind may be asking: Although land pollution is a serious problem, consuming waste is a ‘must’ in everyone’s daily life, we can’t just keep the waste in our pocket all day! Therefore, people think of ways to solve this.
In Hong Kong, government has thought of many ways to solve land pollution. Building waste management facilities is one of the ways. Refuse transfer stations, landfills, chemical waste treatment centre, composting plants and eco parks whave beren built. Waste reduction programmes, waste management activities, talks about garbage control whave beren held by government and different environmental protection associations.
They are doing so much to control the waste we produced, but what do they get? The problem is not solved yet! The amount of garbage wais still increasing!
Environmental protection is not their responsibility, it’s our responsibility, all of us should face this problem, land pollution. We need to help reduce garbage produced.
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