Rubbish is a kind of environmental pollution. Each person produces two kilograms of rubbish every day, but most of us throw away the rubbish directly. Have you ever wondered where your rubbish goes after you throw it away? Cleaners have to collect the waste, move it to landfills(垃圾填埋地) and then sort(分类) it out to see if it should be burned(燃烧), buried(埋葬) or recycled(回收利用). So if we can sort it out first, it can make a big difference.
Each year, China produces about 300 million tons of rubbish. Only about a quarter of that waste is recycled. Most rubbish is buried in landfills or burned without being sorted. Landfills take up a lot of space. There's also a risk of polluting the nearby land and water. In order to solve this problem, China has been developing rubbish sorting these years. Shanghai, for example, announced(宣布) a "sorting for prizes" plan earlier six months ago. According to the plan, people get shopping cards or even money as prizes by sorting out the rubbish.
In some other countries, the recycling rate of rubbish is higher because of their sorting system(系统). ________. People must put the right rubbish in the right place at the right time. The rubbish is usually sorted into eight kinds: burnable, non-burnable, plastic bottles, recyclable plastic, other plastic, paper, harmful(有害的) and then hard rubbish like desks and old TV sets. So in Japan, burning the waste becomes more easily with careful sorting.
With the World Environmental Day coming, our school is now requiring every student to develop a habit of sorting the waste. Here in our school we lay four different colors of rubbish bins for different kinds of rubbish. The red is for harmful waste; the blue is for waste that can be recycled; the green is for kitchen waste; the black is for other waste.
It is not WASTE until it is WASTED.
