求关于on over-packaging的英语作文

求关于on over-packaging的英语作文

Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment.Little reach is being carried out on the costs of alternative types of packaging.Just how possible is it,for instance,for local authorities to salvage paper,pulp it,and recycle it as egg-boxes?Would it be cheaper to plant another forest?
Paper is the material most used for packaging —— 20 million paper bags are apparently used in Great Britain each day —— but very little is salvaged.A machine has been developed that pulps paper then processes it into packaging,e.g.egg-boxes and cartons.This could be easily adapted for local authorities use.It would mean that people would have to separate their refuse into paper and non-paper,with a different dustbin for each.Paper is,in fact,probably the material that can be most easily recycled; and now,with massive increases in paper prices,the time has come at which collection by local authorities could be profitable.
Recycling of this kind is already happening with milk bottles,which are returned to the dairies,washed out,and refilled.But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic.More and more dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles,and British dairies would be producing the equivalent of enough plastic tubing to encircle the earth every five or six days!The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot.Some environmentalists argue that only solution to the problem of ever growing mounds of plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops,a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various material and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones.Unnecessary packaging,intended to be used just once,and making things look better so more people will guy them,is clearly becoming increasingly absurd.But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly.What is needed now is a more unimportant function.