Nowadays, we can notice that the government is promoting a “zero waste” scheme all over the place in Singapore. “Zero waste” is a clean environment process that promotes a “recycle,” “reuse,” or “repair” of material. By this “zero waste” scheme, we manage to minimize the amount of waste. For example, Britain is currently recycling 11% of household waste, burning 8% and dumping the rest, within six years of a change in policy Canberra is recycling 59% of its rubbish and Edmonton, Canada, has reached 70% (Collins, 2002). From this statistic, we can see that “zero waste” scheme plays an important role in reducing the waste. Thus, “zero waste” scheme is more suitable in Singapore.
Land-filling, which is the waste disposal scheme that currently is used in Singapore, is the scheme that is not environmentally friendly. It is because the government needs to provide huge area of land to bury or collect all the waste. With the increased percentage of waste, the government needs to find another side just for burying the rubbish. Singapore is a small island and we are not able to provide such a huge area to handle these wastes. Hence, land-filling is not suitable in Singapore with the limited resources of land in Singapore.
In conclusion, by comparing the applicability and suitability of both waste disposal schemes in Singapore, “zero waste” scheme is the most applicable and suitable scheme where no extra land is needed to handle the waste.
References
Collins, J. (2002, Oct 3rd). Radical plans for waste could herald a big clean-up. The Guardian Weekly. p.25
Collins, J. (2002, Oct 3rd). Radical plans for waste could herald a big clean-up. The Guardian Weekly. p.25
5 comments:
I thin kwe can implement anything that is good for our environment. But ultimately it is the mindset of the people staying in the country... I think implementation is not a problem the problem is to change people's mindset. For example, though Singapore's courtesy campaigne has been on for many years, we are still having some "Singaporean Attitudes"
Maybe you should give a brief introduction about the 'zero waste' which is the backbone of your essay.
I think the Singaporean government has done a very good job to promote the zero waste scheme. We can see a lot of recycle dustbin everywhere to encourage people to recycle the waste. I strongly believe that Singapore will practice the zero waste scheme 100%very soon.
Thanks, Jen, as always for a good post and your hard work!
One question: What's wrong with the verb in this sentence?
According to Collins (2002), the amount of household rubbish will doubled by the year 2020 and more than 40 million tones a year in new European Union.
I think both the "zero waste" and "landfilling" have their own advantages at this point of time. With time goes on, the technology should make the "zero waste" more realistic. At that time, I think every country will follow the "zero waste" trend.
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