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Part 2&3  A time when you saw a lot of plastic waste答案及解析_雅思口语练习「新东方雅思官方网校」

A time when I saw a lot of plastic waste was… well, I wonder if this counts or not… I think it does… it was actually at a presentation I went to see in a large bookshop in my city. Let me explain. There’s a big international bookstore in my city, which also has a café, restaurant area, and an area where they host exhibitions and other events. There was a presentation – a sort of talk really – by an environmental organization, about recycling and the importance of individual contributions to the world recycling efforts. The focus of a big part of the presentation was on the use of plastics. They explained how so much plastic does not actually get recycled, but ends up filling the land and often also ends up in the oceans. What really stick in mind was this photograph of the “doldrums” – an area of the ocean where loads of plastic ends up coming together in one big island – yes, it’s almost like a huge island of plastic. I am not sure why it all gathers together in that one place, the size of a country, but it does – it's something related to ocean currents and so on. Anyway, the series of images, the photos, in the presentation, of this huge amount of plastic just tangled up and floating like a giant island, really made me feel quite depressed. Especially when I learned, and saw pictures of the harm this does to sea animals and birds. So, yes, I felt depressed about this experience, but it did make me think more carefully about our daily plastic use and the environment. 


Everyone uses plastic products to some extent. They're now completely ubiquitous. So much is made out of plastic, from simple, lower-quality plastic for bags and packaging to the higher quality, very durable plastic that is used for making phones and electronic equipment, casing and car interiors and all sorts. So, I am not sure if people “like” using plastic products really – I think they are just a part of everyday life as plastic, of varying sorts, features in almost everything.

We should certainly make more effort to reduce our use of plastic, that is for sure. We should try to limit our use of plastic to those things which are absolutely necessary and not just frivolously use plastic bags when we don’t need to, or buy things with loads of plastic packaging and so on. So, though the use of plastic is unavoidable really, we can at the very least reduce unnecessary use of plastic in daily life and be more careful about our attitude to recycling and waste.


We can reduce our use by recycling more, for starters. That act in itself makes us think more about the amount of plastic we collect – as we can see it mounting up in our recycling bin at home, so we become more aware of just how much we waste. Secondly, I think we should re-use bags more often when we go shopping, rather than just taking new bags from the vendors or supermarkets every time we buy things. These are two key steps we can employ to reduce plastic use. 

Mainly plastic shopping bags from supermarkets and markets and packaging. We use a lot of packaging in China, especially with the obsession with online purchasing, so this means that things get delivered in plastic, often. So, I believe that the biggest use of plastic must be supermarkets and online shopping businesses that use plastic in their packaging. I can’t think of anything else off-hand, but there must be lots more examples – plastic is everywhere these days. 
