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Are you a coffee lover? Then, are you drinking it with your own tumbler or just with ordinary take-out plastic cup? Don’t you think it is too much waste to be used for several sip of coffee and thrown away and go in to the incinerator? Actually, I was the one who use disposable plastic cups just for convenience. In this blog post, I want to talk about why we should reduce using disposable products.

First, it destroys large amount of resources by making it. Actually, every products makes several pollution while making it but disposable products, it’s another problem. For example, think about disposable wooden chopsticks. We only use it one time and throw it away. But enormous number of trees is cut down by making this. These precious natural resources are wasted for just one use. We have to produce massive amount of products because that products are disposable and never be used again. Factories which make these products will work over and over. By this process, factories will make water pollutions, air pollutions and so on.

MAKING disposable products is not the only problem. These products are not thrown away properly. Too many disposable products are being dumped at sea, down the ground by illegal. For example, Styrofoam is impossible to recycle. This chemical material does not biodegrade or break down. When Styrofoam is buried down the soil, it will not break down for almost 200 years. This terrible material is used in various disposable products such as parcel delivery boxes and smoothie cups. Not only Styrofoam but many other disposable products are thrown away in improper ways because it cost lots of money to dispose it properly. The products which are thrown away in the ocean, mountains will disturb eco system. Countless numbers of turtles lose their lives by eating plastic bags. They confuse it with jelly fish. Disposable products which are not thrown away properly are contaminating entire earth.

These processes will go on and on if we do not reduce using disposable products. We have to reduce using disposable products. From now on, please use mugs or your own cup when you visit coffee shop. This might seem very small but count how many plastic cups you haven’t use for one month. Months will be years and earth might thank you to reduce using disposable products.