Individual Action can Make a Difference
On your way to class/work, you drop by the nearby Hawker centre to buy a cup of kopi peng to start your day. Maybe you see where this is going so let’s take it up a notch. So between classes/meetings, you want to slip in a short lunch break so you da bao one serving of cai fan with your customised 2 meat, 1 veg combination. At the end of a long day, you reward yourself with milk tea with pearls (but only 25% sugar because health is wealth) from the bubble tea store just outside the MRT station. Magnify that to a conservative estimate of 2 times per week, that would total to 312 articles of plastic.
Now, you might think it’s just the plastic cup, plastic container and another plastic cup, but you might have forgotten the plastic straw and carrier that comes with the coffee, the utensils and plastic bag for your lunch and one more set of straw and plastic bag for your bubble tea. That would total to roughly 1040 articles of plastic per year per person. How many of those plastics do you think you would recycle? Mind you, we have not accounted for dinner, any snacks in between meals or other non-food related purchases. Imagine the waste you could have avoided by simply saying no to plastic.
| Recycling isn’t Enough | UN Sustainable Goals |