Would our grandchildren blame existing human beings for leaving them world full of rubbish?
As a mom in 30s, I resent my ancestors evertime the weather is damn hot and intolerable.
I blame them for keeping on destroying all the greens and polluting rivers in their days so call to give better lives for the next generation.
The previous generations or so called the "modern" people kept on implying that using plastic is cool, buying is sort of a symbol of status, in contrary to reusing or upcycling is only meant for those who have no money and etc.
Recently, I attended a seminar on Environmental issues. One of them is on waste. Here I share the statistic from Journal of Science 2015.
1. In 2010, 99.5 million tonnes plastic were produced from 192 countries bordering the sea and led about 12.7 million tonnes went into the ocean.
2. It is estimated that each person on average consume 18gramme, or a size of credit card, in their daily food intake ie the fish, the sea salt which contain microplastic.
2. As for e-waste collection in Sabah, 15 programmes were being held since 21 Oct, 2016 until Aug 4, 2019. A total of 101,425 kilogramme of electrical appliances were disposed in licensed premises.
Thank God that Malaysian government through MESTECC ministry has started the first of three phases in ensuring a more plastic-free environment so that our future kids and their kids would have clean air, water and space for them to live the lives when all of us are gone...hopefully to trash-free afterlife places.
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