Times Of Swaziland: LET’S PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT

LET’S PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT
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Editor on 29/07/2022 09:14:00


Sir,
Looking outside and expecting to see the beauty of nature and the interesting
sweet sounds of birds have now become a thing of yesterday.
What used to be green and appealing pieces of land have now become land filled
with domestic waste products especially from fast foods. Driving along our
beautiful country roads is no longer pleasurable as it used to be, every now and
then you see flying plastic bags, soft drink cans etc, things that pollute our
lovely pieces of land. The question that remains unanswered is why are we
killing our environment.
Change
There is a need for a serious change in attitude in as far as conserving our
environment is concerned. The environment is the basis of life and developed
countries first took major steps in conserving the environment and in that way
they were able to smoothly achieve their development goals.
By change of attitude towards the environment we simply need to make it our own
thing and take care of it as if it is an individual’s asset. Every now and
then you see people throwing waste material all over and who is to blame for
this?
Issues
No one but us emaSwati. If our government would take such issues seriously and
implement legislation that will govern the prolong use of plastics in the
country, we can see a way forward towards being a First World country. In
developed countries the use of plastics has been banned and they were
substituted with paper bags which are bio-degradable and with these simple
phenomena they have been able to conquer the struggle against pollution due to
plastic waste.
Promote
In our country, buying a small thing such as an apple, it is wrapped in a
plastic, a majority of supermarkets promote their brands using plastics and the
smallest things that can be put in a paper bag are put in a plastic. It is
pretty clear that we are lying when we say we love our country yet we always
cause unnecessary pollution by just dumping waste all over.