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dont use plastic when going out with ur kids to give the idea that plastic bags are not nessasary

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can use Biodegradable plastics instead of regular plastic

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schools:
- can hold a booth during recess to show the consequences of plastic/paper waste
- have class challenges (see who recycled the most)
- teachers can show videos of plastic pollution during spare time so students are more aware of this issue

families:
- can use reusable bags instead of plastic bags when shopping
- encourage children by teaching them to slowly change their bad habits

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- keep in mind the adverse effects of plastic/paper to the environment
- use online applications such as google tasks and calendar so as to save paper and reduce the unnecessary printing of paper
- reduce,reuse and recycle the plastics that we use

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following the global pandemic schools have switched to using the internet more instead of using papers to do their work. in my opinion youths do not waste paper. on the other hand, adults are so used to penning down their thoughts and list onto paper causing them to waste it.

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In my view ,youths are not the ones to waste plastic .This is because youth would go to school from morning to night and then sleep in a daily repetition .they do not have time to go shopping with all the homework and exam that youths have to faced .If anything i think that the ones to waste plastic are infact parents . After a long day at work, parents are extremely tired and would order take out for there family which is the main cause of plastic waste

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-The burning of waste will promote global warming .Which can affect mental health of youths .Even now , there are plenty of people suffering from mental illness, can you imagine the amount of pressure and stress youth of the future be in with the increase in global warming and the increase vulnerability to mental illness ?As youth will be the future tax payers and people working in the economy supporting an aging population

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- harms the environment as trees get burnt down which produces a lot of harmful gas which pollutes environment
- animals may mistake the plastic as food which may cause them to choke and die

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Hard to dispose plastic as when u melt/burn them it pollutes the air and plastic takes many years to completely dispose. Also increase the land space to throw rubbish

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plastic floats in sea --> jellyfish assume as food and eats --> loss in jellyfish population --> sea pollution

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using too much paper/plastic will cause deforestation, and pollution to the land and water bodies causing the overall amount of clean oxygen to decrease as tress and oceans produce almost all of the clean oxygen on earth of people to breathe in thus causing more people to fall ill more easily

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we can take about how mental illness can affect ones own feelings and mindset.This would alert them of the dangers of mental illness and they would want to avoid them at all cost which can help with reducing the use of plastic

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organise campaigns during school for youth to bring their own lunchboxes and cutleries to reduce the amount of plastic / paper bags. reward them with attractive gifts for the class that produced the least amount of waste

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Say no to plastic cutleries and bags , bring our own items instead ( eg; own cutleries from home or reusable bags to carry goods), adopt good practice to bring our own items such as water bottle, reusable bag, cutleries and lunch box to take away food.
School should open up campaign to talk about the increase of plastic/paper wastage and do activities such as doing point system and rewarding students when they reduce the use of paper/plastic

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-The waste of plastic will cause global warming and affect the youths metal heath.(When a person is not well or their normal way of life is being threaten, this would make them want to seek help)
-to motivate the use of less plastic by wanting to safeguard themselves from mental illness.

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- more litter everywhere
- plastics/paper can end up in forests/ocean which can harm environment
- plastics can endanger animals (get stuck on them etc)
- using paper unnecessarily will cause more trees to be cut down in bulk so large amounts of energy is wasted
- trees will get burnt down, releasing large amounts of carbon to the air which can cause air pollution

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singapore's carbon emissions will continue to grow causing it to be an unfit place for us to live as the emissions will make us breathe in harmful gases

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to remove all the unused plastic to create more land space, unused plastic will be burnt and the burning of plastic will increase in amount causing more greenhouse gas to be produced and decreasing the overall health of people around the world

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Youth will grow the habit of continuing to waste paper/plastic ( and think there is nothing wrong with it ) and increase the use of this items which is harmful as it can be detrimental to the future of sg and they might influence the rest of their friends/families to think it is okay to keep using plastic/paper

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-show them how too much plastic in the ocean can cause problems to the environment and animals
-let them to use less to no plastic in school so that they can have a habit of using less or no plastic/paper in their daily lives