Littering is an action when
people throw things from their car, drop things on the ground or even if
someone aims for garbage can, but misses it, then leaves it. The littering
types can be the
cigarette butts, soda cans, coffee cups, beer bottles, plastic bags, gum wrappers and various
other items that may seen along side a road, blown up against a fence
or swirling around an empty lot.
Littering can damage the environments, impact human health, and cause the dirty
look, because those scattered garbage can pollute the ground and water which
makes people cannot consume the fresh water. According
to the Caribbean Community Secretariat (2003) the quantity of waste is closely
linked to the level of economic activity in a country. It is also ruin the good view of nature if the
littering happens in the mountain or lake. Since all of human being needs a
good environments and fresh water to live, the polluted environments because of
the littering impacts will effects their health. Hence, we should not do
littering and preventing it.
The first reason why we should not do littering is it
can pollute the ground field and the fresh water. Mostly, people do littering
in the places that there is no available ash can such as beach, lake, or river.
Those places are the nature tourism destination which is the people leave so
many garbage from their residue like plastic bag or soda can. Because there is
no ash can they are just littering the garbage around. It can pollute the
ground because the plastic cannot become disentangled in short time, almost
hundred years. Then, the littering garbage is made from chemistry material
which makes the polluted. Therefore, human being and animals cannot consume it.
If human being and animal consume polluted water it makes them sick and die.
So, if we do not find ash can, we should keep the garbage for a while and throw
it in the right place.
The second reason why we should not litter is because
it can affect human health. Garbage is the place that bacteria and microbe, and
viruses growing which causes some diseases such as stomachache. The stomachache
is caused by e-coli virus. Since, the garbage is dirty things and their habitat
is the dirty places therefore the littering can cause some disease which is
dangerous for human being health. Then, it can harm people. One of the example
things that usually littered is glass bottle. If the broken glass is broken in
the beach, its fraction will harm the visitors’ legs. Beach is the place where
people swimming, so that they will not use sandals or shoes. So, we use recycle
things that can be used again.
The last reason but not least why we should not do
littering is because it makes the view of nature becomes disgusting. Nature is
always related to fresh and good view which peopled used to refreshing.
Therefore, in those places there are many people who potentially do littering. The
scattered garbage in the ground, park, beach, or river makes the scenery of the
nature become badly. It makes the view does not look nice. In
the study, plastics formed about 66% at Korle and 53% at La of the total number
of litter found, which is not ignificantly different from that of the beach
litter survey of Sakumono Beach and Centre for National Culture Beach by Nunoo
& Quayson (2003), which recorded between 46% and 58%.Therefore, the nature will not be the fresh places anymore
and the people losing the place to picnic. So, we should warn each other not to
do littering.
For those people who do not care about environment,
they may state littering is the fast way to throw the garbage if they cannot
fin ash can instead of keep them and throw it in
ash can. But, this idea
is wrong. They are only the lazy people who do not care about the environment.
Whereas, the human being is need a good environment. Since the environment is
polluted by the littering garbage, human being will not have a better place to
live anymore.
Then, another people may state that littering is fine
as long as it is not many. This idea is non-sense at all. No matter the number
of garbage which is littering, if it is doing everyday it will be mounted. The
littering is illegal action that can be punished in some states country. For
example is California. Schultz and Oleen (2004) mention about the punishment of
littering in California: First conviction: fine between $100 and $1,000, and at least eight hours
of litter cleanup. Second conviction: fine between $500 and $1,000, and at
least 16 hours of litter cleanup. Subsequent convictions: fine between $750 and
$1,000, and at least 24 hours of litter cleanup.
Next, people may state that littering will not bring
serious problem. But, this is wrong. The littering can cause the number of
foreign tourists decrease in some country, especially with natural tourism
destination. For example, the garbage in the Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia makes the visitors frustrated.
Badung
Sanitation and Parks Agency head Putu Eka Mertawan said his side had set an
Alert-II (Siaga II) status and would work harder to clean the mounting waste at
Kuta Beach. They are unable to sunbath
and surfing in the garbage beach. Since, the foreign tourists come to Indonesia
to enjoy the natural sources; they will not come anymore if the nature of
Indonesia is damage by littering garbage.
In conclusion, littering
is bad habit which causes pollution, diseases, and bad looking for nature
tourism destination. Since the human need good environment to live, littering
is bad to do because it can harm environment and human being. So, we should not
do littering and preventing to do it.
References:
Aprilia Eva
Winanta/130222614326
Argumentative Academic Writing
(Final Project Task 7)
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