Observation 5
More and more often when I’m using public transport, walking down the street or when I'm at school, I’m noticing that people are rarely using disposable plastic bottles and replacing them with reusable ones. I also not often see people who decide to buy a plastic bag in stores, most customers have their own and take them with them when shopping.
Perhaps it is the result of increasing public awareness of
ecology, climate change and environmental pollution. Or maybe it’s about saving
some money, because on a yearly basis for choosing these „ecological forms of
life” you can collect quite a significant sum. However I am of the opinion that the
first cause is the most likely. In these times of, as I said, environmental
change, deforestation, air and river pollution those things very quickly get
publicized by the media so people know about it. Publicizing such cases
certainly helped in some way and opened the eyes of those who before downplayed the
matter or thought it’s not important. Naturally, there are still individuals
who do not believe this and do not intend to help our planet, but we are
unlikely to change that.
I also noticed this behavioural change - people reuse plastic bags at street markets and shops, e.g. to pack vegetables. It can be a cause for optimism, I suppose.
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