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Did You Know
CAN WE

SAVE THE

EARTH?

(FROM PLASTIC WASTE)

Ders, have you ever experienced, when ocean as the source of our food will be f lled with more
you’re on a vacation, having a swim on the waste than the f sh itself. It’s not a good thing, JDers…
Jocean, and suddenly your feet stuck onto
something? It isn’t a seaweed, it’s plastic instead. So, instead of just complaining, why don’t we start
Isn’t it annoying? But what can we do? Frankly to do something. Starts from our daily life, especially
speaking, we also contribute our own waste— during work. Reduce the use of tissue and paper,
especially plastic waste—to the environment. including copy paper and toilet tissue. Bring your
True, right? own tumbler rather than buying bottled water from
the stores.
Yup, according to World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF) report in 2017, the Global Conservancy Start to shift from single-use straw to stainless or
network revealed 10 kinds of waste that dominated wooden straw. For those who like to dine out in
the beaches in the world, such as cigarette butts, fast food restaurants, bring your food container and
takeouts, bottle caps, beverage cans, plastic coffee mug. While doing groceries shopping, use
bags, up to plastic straws (How many we could your own shopping bag rather than bring home store
found such waste on the beach per year? See the plastic bags.
pictures below). The total amount of plastic waste
is fantastic. From thousands to millions. And every Therefore, we can reduce the use of our personal
year it’s only getting double, JDers. plastic waste. The waste issue can disturb the course
of human lives, it is even possible to destroy life
According to the World Economic Forum, if such a on Earth. Can we save the earth? Yes, we can if we
condition continues, in 2050, it is possible that the commit to!

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1-5 YEARS 200 YEARS 400 YEARS 450 YEARS 200 YEARS

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decomposed decomposed decomposed decomposed decomposed
200 YEARS 1 MILLION YEARS 80-100 YEARS 10-20 YEARS 20-1.000 YEARS illustration resources: freepik.com

other plastic packages
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