IELTS PART 2: Environment and law
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:30 pm
Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement.
To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
It is argued that we do not usually recycle a sufficient quantity of our garbage, so the Government should enact laws in order to make it mandatory. I totally agree with this view as we all should take responsibility of the safeguard of the environment.
First of all, despite many countries have promoted advertisement to spread awareness about recycling, there is a part of the population who has never separated waste and simply drops it in a unique rubbish bin. As a result, many states are still losing a huge quantity of raw materials that might be effectively reused in production processes. Secondly, although people decide to recycle their house waste, actually there are not any fine for who does not recycle properly. For example, putting glass and plastic bottles together instead of separating them in their proper bins or collection banks. If we do not invert this trend we will still continue to harm the environment by filling up landfill sites.
In my view, the Government should pass a law to tackle the two main problems stated above in the previous paragraph. Firstly, making obligatory recycling ensure that everyone take equal responsibility about the safeguard of the environment, rather than rely on the correct behaviour of green citizens. Secondly, only by enforcing a law it would be possible to impose fines to anyone who still recycle superficially. If people continue to do so, they would collect a bunch of fines instead. As an example, the city of Milan has passed a law in 1998 in that sense, and since then is the greenest city of the entire Italy with more than 90% of raw material recycled.
To sum up, I suggest that the Government should introduce a law to oblige people recycling as this is the only tool available to guarantee that we will not continue to harm the environment by accumulating housing rubbish.
To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
It is argued that we do not usually recycle a sufficient quantity of our garbage, so the Government should enact laws in order to make it mandatory. I totally agree with this view as we all should take responsibility of the safeguard of the environment.
First of all, despite many countries have promoted advertisement to spread awareness about recycling, there is a part of the population who has never separated waste and simply drops it in a unique rubbish bin. As a result, many states are still losing a huge quantity of raw materials that might be effectively reused in production processes. Secondly, although people decide to recycle their house waste, actually there are not any fine for who does not recycle properly. For example, putting glass and plastic bottles together instead of separating them in their proper bins or collection banks. If we do not invert this trend we will still continue to harm the environment by filling up landfill sites.
In my view, the Government should pass a law to tackle the two main problems stated above in the previous paragraph. Firstly, making obligatory recycling ensure that everyone take equal responsibility about the safeguard of the environment, rather than rely on the correct behaviour of green citizens. Secondly, only by enforcing a law it would be possible to impose fines to anyone who still recycle superficially. If people continue to do so, they would collect a bunch of fines instead. As an example, the city of Milan has passed a law in 1998 in that sense, and since then is the greenest city of the entire Italy with more than 90% of raw material recycled.
To sum up, I suggest that the Government should introduce a law to oblige people recycling as this is the only tool available to guarantee that we will not continue to harm the environment by accumulating housing rubbish.