Waste disposal is a big problem in today’s world. There is no doubt that every country wants to make the most use of sources. Hence, zero seems to be the best way of waste disposal. However, my opinion is that zero waste is not suitable for some countries.
In our country, China, the main method of waste disposal is incineration instead of zero waste. The advantage of incineration is that it costs much less money than recycling the rubbish. Especially for a developing country, many kinds of rubbish are expensive to be recycled. Thus, the government of China chooses to burn them rather than recycle them. Another advantage is that incineration is easier to manage, so the harm of incineration can be controlled. For China, the more advance the system is, the poorer the management becomes. Since zero waste system is much more complicated than incineration, the poor management of it can bring us much more harm than just burn the rubbish. With poor management, some wastes such as gypsum can be add into food just like tofu and make it poisonous. With poor management, some materials we use can emit poisonous gases to harm us. In contrast, though incineration is not environmental friendly, the negative effect can be brought to the minimum if it is well managed. Hence, comparing to recycling, incineration is more suitable to deal with rubbish in China.
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Hi Pengfei,
I do not completly agree with your opinion. It is right that zero-waste is not suitable for every country, but it is not totally suitable for China,in some cities, like Shanghai or Beijing, those cities can apply zero-waste policy, but for most rural towns, incineration is more suitable.
There are some my comments. First, I think it is better to use" CHinese government" instead of " the government of China". And " the poor management of it can bring us much more harm than just burn the rubbish" in this sentence, "burn" should be "burning".
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