The best way to solve environmental problems caused by consumer-generated waste is for towns and cities to impose strict limits on the amount of trash they will accept from each household.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Clean environment is the pivotal requirement for healthy life. In fact, healthy environment is the basic needs, perhaps one cannot sustain without clean environment, and hence, should remain free of trash and pollutants. The prompt recommends to impose strict limits on the amount of trash towns and city’s waste management department to accept from each household. I partly concur with the aforementioned for the following reasons.
To begin, consumer-generated waste has many detrimental effect for environment. In the era with global warming and climate change as major problem, consumer generated wastes have degraded the surrounding, causing air pollution, land pollution and many others adverse effects, which exacerbates the average expectancy life, thus, limiting waste materials and pollutants is a necessary task. For instance, in Pokhara population density is extremely high, and in turn, soaring consumer-generated waste. Since the waste materials are very high, it is harder to properly dispose every wastes consummately up until 2017. After imposing strict limit on the amount of trash, the waste to dispose drastically decreased, and controlling pollution from almost 400 ppm to 100 ppm. The above example illustrates limiting amount of trash per household is logical.
Further, closely related with the healthy environment, carrying capacity of the Earth has been limiting day by day due to exorbitant amount of waste materials. The sea is flooded with non-bio degradable wastes like plastics and water bottle. Imposing limits on the amount of trash will make people to use permanent utensils like that made of steel, silver and ceramics, reducing huge amount of plastic wastes. Moreover, limiting on amount of trash will check on waste foods. Catering and restaurants and even household families and individuals will on prepare food corresponding party needs and store them. Even if surfeit foods are made, they may donate food to those who needs it most. Thus, restricting wastes make people more moral and controls prodigality.
Even after imposing strict limits on the amount of trash municipality will accept from each household, the consumer-generated waste may not decrease, but will only increase illegal disposal of wastes in stagnant area. For example, even without limiting amount of trash one family can produce, many areas are swept with illegal wastes and dump in Kathmandu. For instance, once holy and clean Bagmati River is flooded with unwanted materials, bus-stops are filled with plastics and bio-wastes. Thus, imposing limit on amount of wastes produced will only increase in illegal dump of wastes.
In conclusion, since imposing limits in amount of wastes household can produce has many merits, such law should be implemented and imposing such law needs to be aided with other rules and resources like fine to illegal dumping, CCTV camera in public and even public shaming.