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Looking back at the problem we have faced, you should know by now that the environmental issues we have on earth was mainly caused by us. Climate change is no joke. Despite scientists warning us about this drastic change, we pretended as if it was nothing, as if it will never happen in life and we’re sure of it. Think about our health, the future you want to live in. It’s not too late to change and fix our mistake. Although I am only a 14 year old student who rarely watch or read the news, I know our earth is changing. I am right here in front of the camera making a speech about our environment because I care for my future too. What ever happens to our city, our home, our planet, it will all be arrowhead towards us. We could destroy our home without noticing the little changes. Like wildfires some countries had to struggle with due to heat waves. Noticed how it has been raining for the past few weeks? Climate change has lead to crazy weather forecasts like the sudden flash flood in Bukit timah. The flood entered at least 2 shops in Bukit Timah Plaza which damaged goods that people were selling. People shopping in Bukit Timah Plaza were struggling to shop their basic needs due to that flood. If we don’t do anything now, this could be a glimpse of our future. I really want all of us to take this seriously. We can’t reverse this if we start to face the consequences. I mean it when I say all this, and I have to admit, we really took our planet for granted. I hope you will do your part, because I will too.

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We all know the purpose of the usage of plastic bags is to carry items we have bought. They can carry heavy books that you just bought from a bookshop, or even new clothes for school because your old ones are too small. Plastic is a good material I agree, but they can still pollute our environment. Plastic bags were invented to save the our planet, according to the son of Swedish engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin who created them in 1959. The bags were developed as an alternative to paper bags, which were considered bad for the environment because they resulted in forests being chopped down. In the past, plastic bags started out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. About 90 percent of all the plastic waste that reaches the world's oceans gets flushed through the rivers, littering, windblown waste, industrial waste, and municipal waste. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. I believe that we can still overcome this situation

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The environmental club has proposed 3 ideas.The First idea is  to stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and bookshop.
Second, was to make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles.
Lastly, ban balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound.
Out of these 3 initiatives, I strongly agree on the the idea to stop  the usage of plastic bags for purchases and banning of balloons and plastic streamers. Let’s recap the activities that could affect our environment

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Good morning/good afternoon Brooksians and teachers, I’m Mirrah from 2I. Today, I’m here to talk about the ideas that the Environment club students have proposed for us.  This proposal is to support national effort and raise awareness about pollution and environmental conservation.

I think that what the environmental club has proposed is very logical. The ideas can help us improve our way on taking care of our beloved Mother Nature. Honestly speaking, everyone should understand why Singapore is trying to work towards being zero waste and why people are forcing us to recycle our materials. Climate change is something we don’t want to happen, it increases the heat, drought and can even increase wildfires. Our health could also impact on it and all because we didn’t care for our planet. If you want to do more for our planet, recycling is one of the basic activity. It prevents the emissions of many greenhouse gases and water pollutants, and saves energy. This helps to reduce the pollution caused by the extraction and processing of virgin materials.but here are some other methods we could do during school hours so that all students and Teachers can contribute too

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This intiatives are reasonable and reaslistic to me a it takes minmal effort to do. I urge you to support and take in this zero-waste movement and our country will be a healthy zero-waste nation

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The environmental club has proposed three ideas for us and i agree with two of them. Initiative one can be done by putting up reminders near the canteen to remind students that plastic bags will not be provided and initiative 2 can be done by putting posters near the canteen sink to encourage people to recycle and also learn how to recycle

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I hope that we can all help our environment and stop climate change now when we can before the situation becomes worser. So far we’ve only gotten ideas from our school’s environment club we can still find other ways to help and we could also share these ideas with other people to get more people. You wouldn’t want the future generations to clean up our mess, we can however let them have a better future by being more responsible for our own mess.

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To end off, I will like to thank and give credits to Environment club for their initiatives. But most importantly, I will really encourage you to support and follow their initiatives so to have a better environment to live in. Let us play our part to fight against the long emerging climate change before we ourselves will suffer the consequences! Thank you

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Stopping to provide plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen  and the bookshop. Plastic bags can always be replaced by reusable bags such as shopping bags. Not only does a reusable bag help the environment, it is also strong and can be used for many years worth of shopping trips.

Making it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles can also, be replaced. I do not really see my classmates using plastic bottles for it’s main purpose, to drink water. Rather, I see them using them to play with such as bottle flips. I believe that a lot of us are already using our personal bottles that can always be refilled and last very long. I have my own personal bottle which has lasted me for almost 5 years, I can definitely prove it to you that personal bottles are way more efficient that plastic bottles.

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In my opinion, I will support initiatives 1 and 2, which is to stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop. As It takes 1000 years for a plastic bag to degrade in a landfill. Initiative 2 which is make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles and plastic streamers within the school compound. As recycling reduces the pollution that can come from the chemicals used to make theses bottles. Recycling also helps cut down on the amount of trash thrown into landfills, so our garbage doesn’t take up as much space.

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I am going to discuss with you about 2 of the ideas that were proposed by the Environment Club which are to ‘stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop’ and ‘making it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles’.

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So I would like to invite all of you to start using reusable bags and straws and start of recycle used plastic bottles. The reason of why we should support the environmental cause is that it will reduce the air fumes being released into the air and will save the earth.

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Hi! I am Nirob from 2I and I will be sharing about what my school’s environment club shared about environmental issues and my opinions of them. We need to change our daily practises, plants and animals from all over the planet are dying because of human actions and waste, such as turtles choking on our plastic waste or even the polar bears being forced to learn to adapt to living conditions. If we do not do anything, sooner or later our future generations will face the monstrous consequences that we made.

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Good morning everyone, my name is Guisen from 2I. I will be sharing my thoughts on what the Environment club proposed and also to encourage your schoolmates to support the initiatives that will be mentioned in my speech. After giving you a brief explanation of what I am going to tell you today, let me start mentioning the topics about the environment. School recycling can inspire students to care about the planet, to examine the resources that we use to make our world sustainable, to look at the consequences of using resources and generating pollution and waste. Schools help to shape the habits that we continue as adults.

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Good morning everyone, my name is Guisen from 2I. I will be sharing my thoughts on what the Environment club proposed and also to encourage your schoolmates to support the initiatives that will be mentioned in my speech. After giving you a brief explanation of what I am going to tell you today, let me start mentioning the topics about the environment. School recycling can inspire students to care about the planet, to examine the resources that we use to make our world sustainable, to look at the consequences of using resources and generating pollution and waste. Schools help to shape the habits that we continue as adults.

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I support these ideas as i have tried to stop using plastic bags as every time one plastic bags is burned, it generates 33 grams of carbon dioxide. When i tried to stop using plastic bags, to be honest it was really difficult as every time I’d go grocery shopping as I would forget to bring the reusable bags or not bringing enough bags, but gradually over time it would be a habit for me to bring the reusable bags.
Second is making compulsory to recycle all plastic bags and recyclables. When i started trying to recycle all my plastic bags, i could see that my trash can took a longer time to fill up. I saw this article about Semakau almost being at the maximum capacity in 2025. And since recycling all plastic could save a lot of Garbage being thrown away and this could slow down the process of the island being filled.

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First is to stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop.
Second is to make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles

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Good morning teachers and brookians, I am Wong Yu Quan from 2I.
I would like to say that the environmental club has done a very good job to make enough effort to raise awareness about pollution and environmental conservation and I am here to share my views on the following ideas proposed by the environmental club. why should we support the environmental cause? these ideas may seem inconvenient and bad, but after reviewing on how we will bear the consequences of global warming, the consequences dont seem so bad

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In conclusion, I would strongly urge you guys to put the ideas that the Environmental Club suggested into action because if we start now ,we might still have time to help this Earth we had destroyed ,from climate change.Remember there is no second Earth so lets do our part by carrying out the Environmental Club proposals.

Thank you for listening to my speech and have a nice day.

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Good morning ,Mr Chan ,Mdm Poh ,Mr Adam,Teachers and fellow Brooksians, my name is Catherine from 2 Integrity and I’ll be sharing my stance and thoughts on the environmental club’s proposal today.

First of all i would like to start off by saying that these proposals are of great importance because we as Citizens or residents of Singapore, should take this seriously for our future generations to come.Whatever we do now affects our future,its up to us as the present generation to fix this mess called climate change.So what exactly is Climate change?Climate change describes a change in the average conditions such as temperature and rainfall in a region over a long period of time and studies have shown that the main reason for climate change is because of human activities such as logging and the burning of fossil fuels.On the contrary, this not only applies to Singapore , I think the topic,pollution and environmental conservation is an idea that should be globally shared and done.I know I am still young but I want to play my part in this by encouraging others to do as well!

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In conclusion, I urge you to support the initiatives listed in this speech and one simple way of being environmentally friendly is if you Use Canvas Bags Instead Of Plastic. Even if you don't use canvas bags, reusing plastic bags is a great way to live more eco-friendly. Just use your plastic bags in small garbage cans throughout your home, or recycle your used grocery bag! Thank You for listening to my speech and have a nice day!

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Now why do i support these 2 initiatives? The ban of use of plastics in the school will not only help make out school a cleaner, greener space but will also lower the contribution of plastic waste from the school as a whole. Shops in the canteen like Deli-Inn use bags, boxes and utensils even for food that will be consumed in the canteen and it is a popular store so the waste generated from the store alone is already high. The other stores in the canteen offer take-away options and many teachers usually get take-away and use the single use plastic containers and utensils as they will consume their food in the staff room. The teachers are hardworking and they do deserve their lunch break but an alternative will be to use containers/bowls and utensils from their homes to store the food they buy for lunch as this reduces the use of single use plastics and will also set a good example for the students in the school. The  Ban of party streamers will also help the environment as helium balloons that are released into the air will start falling down at a certain altitude and fall into the ocean, causing pollution and the possible death of the sea creatures who consume it, mistaking it for their food. All released balloons, whether they are released intentionally or not, return to Earth as ugly litter – including those marketed as “biodegradable latex”.  Balloons kill countless animals and cause dangerous power outages. They can travel thousands of miles and pollute the most remote and pristine places.

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The Environmental Club proposed 3 ideas to fix the problem of climate change, I support 2 of them. that we should stop providing plastic bags as many students and teachers use them once and throw them away. The use of the party’s streamers and balloons should be banned as they are used once and thrown away.

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Firstly I support the idea of banning balloons in the school as it will reduce a lot of plastic used and thrown away by the school and will also reduce the expenses on buying balloons. I also support  the initiative of reducing the amount of plastic bags used in the school would greatly reduce the amount of plastic used in the school. The school could charge 10 cent per plastic bag and could  provide plastic bags to people who needs to carry items high in quantities.

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To end off, I will like to thank and give credit to Environment Club for their initiatives. But most importantly, I will really encourage you to support and follow their initiatives so to have a better environment to live in. Let us play our part to fight against the long-emerging climate change before we ourselves will suffer the consequences! I greatly appreciate your time and effort into listening, but I will also hope that we all can learn something from my speech and reflect on our behaviour towards the environment. Thank you!

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Good morning Mr Chan, Mdm Poh, Mr Adam, teachers and fellow Brooksians, my name is Yi Xin from 2I. I will be sharing my thoughts on what the Environment Club proposed and also to encourage you schoolmates to support the initiatives that will be mentioned in my speech. After giving you a brief explanation of what I am going to tell you today, let me start mentioning the topic about the environment. We all must know that many people do not feel the motivation to help by saving the environment and instead, do several acts like throwing the waste into the sea to harm the environment, as a result, the impacts such as climate change arrives and we all will be responsible for our actions. That is why today I will start off by talking more about the initiatives that were proposed. There are three initiatives that Environment Club proposed in case if you do not know, there are: firstly, to stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop, secondly, to make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles, and thirdly, to ban balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound. My response to their suggestion is that I agree with the initiatives suggested, however,  the third initiative might be hard to accept as balloons are useful for celebrations. Also, the second initiative, might be useful if we have a huge cooperation from you students.

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Good Morning Mr Chan, Mdm Poh, Mr Adam, Teachers and fellow staff and brooksians. My name is Ong Johnson from 2I and today I  will be sharing my views on the ideas proposed by the environmental club today.

I support the ideas suggested by the environmental club, I think  students should support  this ideas even if it seems inconvenient, as we will be the one who have to bear the consequences of global warming, but if we made the ideas suggested into a daily life routine. The consequences wouldn’t be as bad and may wont be as bad as it is now.Some consequences would involve, more floods occurring, higher average temperature.However such changes should not just happen overnight and should occur gradually overtime as the initiatives includes the removal of daily use items due to convince. So the removal of such items will make it very inconvenient for most of the people in the school, so by making the changes slowly over a long period of time, most people would get used to it and will get used to not using plastic utensils and plastic bags

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These actions of reducing plastic use are not difficult. There are so many alternatives to plastic such as reusable bags and paper decorations. We don’t need these plastic items. They are one of the main causes of climate change. Climate change is causing frequent and intense droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans are directly harming animals, destroying the places they live, and wreaking havoc on people's livelihoods and communities. As climate change worsens, dangerous weather events are becoming more frequent or severe. Have a look at our country. Semakau landfill, our only waste dumping area. At our current rate of waste generation, it will be completely filled by 2035. Singapore is getting hotter as time passes. Climate change is happening and we have to take action now. Or else, planet Earth may become inhabitable. Thank you.

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Balloons. Streamers. All fun and games of popping and streaming until you dispose of them. I think I’ve already establish that plastic is really bad but I need to emphasise that balloons and streamers are terrible for the environment. Terrible, Terrible. Balloons and streamers are litter.

They can get stuck on plants and animals can get stuck with the plastic circle around the bottle cap around their legs which would restrict their growth. Balloons and streamers can also end up in oceans. Studies say that there’ll be more plastic than animals by 2050. Isn’t that scary?

But, there are alternatives. You could send flying Wish Papers. Wish papers are when you write something on a paper and you set it aflame. If you want to send something to the sky, send that. It’s way less harmful.

Floating flowers. You gather some flowers, put them into a pond or river and watch them drift away. It also gives you the same feeling of letting something go while being environmentally friendly.

And for streamers, you can make paper flowers and tape them to the walls. You can reuse paper and make a pretty flower. Who doesn’t want that? It all depends on your origami skills but it’s the thoughts that counts.

You could get paper pinwheels, put them on a rope with the paper flowers and you get a environmentally friendly streamer.

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Hello i am Jordan Yap from 2I. I honestly think that this environmental club is a really good way to spread awareness on being a zero waste nation. What is zero waste? Being zero waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them. I think that the way they showed that Singapore is trying to be a zero waste country is very well explained. Short and simple. Their ideas are realistic and are able to be carried out. I am going to share my views.

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I believe these two proposals are the best ways to raise our efforts to combat land pollution and many other things that harm our planet.

For example, plastic bags. Plastic bags harm our planet in so many ways. Plastic bags take hundreds and thousands of years of decompost and when they do, they release harmful toxic substances into the soil which affects the flora and funa.

Every second, 160,000 plastic bags are used around the world and we only use these plastic bags for an average of about 12 minutes. It’s a waste of space and resources.

Biodegradable are 0.3 cents more expensive than a normal one but they break down much faster than other products. They also break down into  water vapour and organic material, which aren't harmful to the environment.

To add on, biodegradable plastic bags still produce carbon footprint but it is significantly lesser that of typical plastic.

You can save yourself the headache of all the talk about plastic bags and just use a tote bag. They comes in many designs and colours as a bonus, they’re reusable. With one tote bag, you save the cost of about 100+ plastic bags. Skip all the talks and research about plastic bags.

Just remember to bring the tote when going shopping and you’re good.

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Hello Mr Chan Mdm Poh Mr Adam, teachers and Brooksians my name is Adri and I am from 2i. I will be sharing to you about zero-waste. What is a zero-waste nation? In a zero-waste nation, all resources are responsibly produced, consumed and reused, instead of it being dumb into the sea. We as a nation have to start using zero-waste products as our marine life are are suffering, dying and scared.

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I support these initiatives because both ideas support the idea that the amount of plastic used and discarded has to be reduced. Plastic bags, balloons and plastic streamers are all made of plastic. These items are usually used once and then simply thrown away out of convenience. When these items are discarded, they will pollute the environment. A huge problem is that plastic is extremely hard to decompose and can take hundreds of years which occupies a lot of space on our waste disposal areas and affects many organisms. For example, when plastic pollutes the sea, fish and other sea creatures are killed. According to statistics, 100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone. Plastic also contributes heavily to climate change. Sunlight and heat causes plastic to release powerful greenhouse gases, leading to an alarming endless cycle. As our climate changes, the planet gets hotter, the plastic breaks down into more methane and ethylene, thus increasing the rate of climate change, and so looping the cycle but becoming worse. Globally, in a year alone, researchers estimate that the production and incineration of plastic will pump more than 850 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. By 2050, those emissions could rise to 2.8 billion tonnes which increases the speed of more severe climate change happening. However, we can stop this. If we cut down our plastic use, the amount of plastic disposed on landfills will decrease and thus, the amount of greenhouse gases will also decrease.

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So i would like y’all to consider the effects of plastic waste and start to use recycled bags or recycle the plastic bags that you currently have to slow down the rate of climate change. This would help us currently and the next generation that may have to suffer due to our faults if we don’t stop . Thank you and have a nice day

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I support these ideas as i personally bring recycled bags sometimes. Sometimes when bringing recycled bags , it is very easy to forget and most of the time I would forget to bring the bag and would use the plastic bags from the various food stores or grocery stores. When plastic is in use most of it are not recycled and leads to water pollution or lead it to be burned that would produce various kinds of toxins that affect the quality of the air and it would make the ozone layer thinner which would lead to climate change . It would affect the temperature of the earth that could lead to glaciers melting that could lead to bacteria or viruses to be released that would be very difficult to combat

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First , ban balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound . This would reduce the use of straws , plastic utensils that contributes to 4 percent of the waste every year . Recently due to COVID the percentage has went down by about but still isn’t close to going zero waste
Secondly , stop providing plastic bags from the school canteen and bookshop . This would reduce the waste of plastic bags and instead students can bring their own recyclable bags to school to bring home items or food.

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Good morning teacher and students . I’m kieron and today I’ll be talking about the two initiatives I support and why i support these two initiatives. The environmental club has proposed several initiatives and I’m here to talk about why I support it

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I really support this movement.although it may be hard at the start making a habit of recycling.In the long run it would very beneficial for our future.

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Good morning Mr Chan,Mdm Poh,Mr Adam,Teachers and fellow brooksians ,my name is Siong kai from class 2I and today I will be sharing my thoughts on the environmental club’s ideas and my ideas on helping with climate change .I agree with the environmental club ideas but some changes are to immediate like (consider the grammar here) ,stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop

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Good morning Mr Chan, Mdm Poh, Mr Adam, Teachers and fellow Brooksians. My name is Susannah and today I would like to share my views on the ideas that the a Environmental Club has proposed in hopes to encourage you to act to prevent global warming.

I would like to point out that we should all do our part to help prevent global warming and that the following ideas I’m about to say is the easiest and most effective actions we could do ,without doing the extreme, to take one step closer to stopping global warming.

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Temperatures that were recorded hit the highest this year and its increasing due to to climate change. It will melt the ice glaciers which could hold many undiserable bacteria and viruses from the past that we have not came in contact with and cannot combat

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I agree with this initiative ,as one plastic bag generates about 33 grams of CO2. CO2 is also part of the greenhouse gasses so then CO2 increases so the greenhouse gasses also increases then the climate change will get worse as the temperature will increase due to the increase of greenhouse gasses so if we stop providing plastic bags the CO2 the CO2 around us decreases.  (hmmm, there are no full stops here in this paragraph at all.)
I agree with this is because balloons are very bad to the environment and can cause harmful effects like it can kill countless animals and can cause dangerous power outrages and when helium balloons are used the helium can never be recreated as helium is a non-renewable resource so if balloons were banned these harmful effects wont happen

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According to statistics, compared to 2019, overall waste generated was 19 percent lower in 2020, mainly because of lower outputs from two significant industrial waste stream, namely Construction and demolition waste and Ferrous metal scrap. Construction and demolition waste generated fell due to a halt in construction activities during the circuit breaker period. Less Ferrous metal scrap was generated due on slowdown in industrial activities over the whole year.

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Now, you might be thinking, “ Yi Xin, why and what made you choose initiatives 1 and 2?” Well, first of all, initiatives 1 and 2 are effective and meaningful as compared initiative 3. I mean, do you guys use or bring balloons and streamers that often in school? Me neither. Ok, let us move on. Secondly, to further elaborate my point, initiative 1 is important as many stalls use a large amount of plastic bags and it therefore increases the resources and energy used. Furthermore, it is a fact that plastic bags are produced using petroleum, natural gas and other chemicals. Its production is toxic to the environment. Hence, let us understand the impact of massive plastic bag usage. Initiative 2 is equally as important as many of you like to buy canned and bottled drinks sometimes and most of you only just throw them into the bin. According to statistics, 50% of the 1 million plastic bottles sold every minute are only recycled, and just 7% of the plastic bottles are transformed into new bottles. That shows how much bottles are wasted and we need to take action from now onwards.

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The Environment Club has  proposed 3 ideas i  agree with their 1st and last idea. The ideas that i agree is, to sop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop. The reason why I agree with this because this can help reduce the 8 Million tons of plastic entering our ocean every year. This can help save marine life from mistaking the plastic for food and choking on it.

The other idea that i support is banning ballons and plastic streamers within the school compound. This is a excellent idea as ballons are unneccessary and are a one time us product. Ballons that are released will eventually come back down to the ocean where again, marine life can mistake it for food and choke on it. In Singapore, about 900 million kg of plastic waste is discarded every year. Just 4% of this is recycled.

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Now, Releasing balloons in the open air seems pretty fun for the most of us, but what we do not realise that it would return (end up) to the ocean or the streets as ugly litter. And as a cause  (As a result), marine (creatures such as) turtles, dolphins, whales and farm animals can unknowingly consume them causing their respiratory tracts and digestive system to be blocked, which sadly will result in deaths. From research it is told that, 5% of dead sea turtles had ingested latex balloons and more than 100,000 marine animals die each year from plastic entanglement or ingestion. This is extremely depressing since their deaths are made by our own actions and carelessness. In return, I believe that if we stop using balloons in the open air we might save some marine life.

Now the similar actions (what do you mean by similar actions?) can be said if we don’t recycle plastic bottles. In fact,  I support the idea of recycling and it is a really good initiative to propose as people need to take in responsibility  for their actions. And to live a more sustainable life it’s is important to make it compulsory to recycle all used can drinks and plastic bottles. However,  my stand on the plastic bottles is that students need to take their own initiative to bring their own water bottle and not depend on the school to provide them.  I ,myself,have my moments when I accidentally forget to bring my water bottle to school and the only way Is to go buy one from the canteen but usually, the problem isn’t buying or getting the bottle it is the fact that since they are so lightweight they can be transported by the wind or just by accidentally kicking it to somewhere else without you knowing. However, it’s best not to keep this as a habit and destroy the land we are living on.

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Moving on, I support the initiatives of the banning of balloons and plastic streams and the movement of recycling drinking cans and plastic bottles. I believe that these two initiatives could make huge improvements to our surroundings and environment, in my opinion.

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Good morning Mr Chan, Mdm Poh, Mr Adam, Teachers and fellow brooksians, I am ash from 2 i and I will be sharing with u info to get yall to understand on why the environment club are proposing these ideas. I believe that  the environmental club proposed this initiative for the betterment of the environment. At the current moment, we know that as the day goes by climate change is growing more rapidly and more quickly than before. And I personally believe that the small acts we do such as preventing using plastic bags, recycling drinking cans, plastic bottles and the banning of balloons and plastic streams could help the environment to improve more than we think it will.

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To wrap up, I would like to thank Environment Club for creative initiatives, and I would encourage you to support their initiatives so to have a better environment. Let us play our part by supporting and following their initiatives to have a better environment!

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Let us move on to the next segment about my view of what initiatives I support. In my opinion, I will support initiatives 1 and 2. To add on to their initiatives, the first initiative might be done by putting a noticeboard near the canteen to inform you that plastic bags will not be provided and the second initiative might be done by putting a poster also near the canteen sink to teach you how to recycle the used cans and encourage you to recycle.

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Good morning Mr Chan, Mdm Poh, Mr Adam, teachers and fellow Brooksians, my name is Yi Xin from 2I. I will be sharing my thoughts on what the Environment Club proposed and also to encourage you schoolmates to support the initiatives that will be mentioned in my speech. After giving you a brief explanation of what I am going to tell you today, let me talk about the initiatives. There are three initiatives that Environment Club proposed in case if you do not know, there are: firstly, to stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop, secondly, to make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles, and thirdly, to ban balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound. My response to their suggestion is that I agree with the initiatives suggested, however,  the third initiative might be hard to accept as balloons are useful for celebrations. Also, the second initiative, might be useful if we have a huge cooperation from you students.

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I believe that these two ideas are one (confusing… two ideas / one of the better ways?) of the better ways to support our national effort and raise awareness about our pollution and environmental conversation. I think that the bookshops should stop distributing plastic bags as i think that they are unnecessary if the students are only buying a couple of stationary, but if they really do need a bag to carry their item they could bring their own tote bag to school so that the bookshop can stop distributing plastic bags. When plastic bags are thrown away they usually end up in landfills and waterways. Reusit.com reports that in a landfill, plastics may take up to 1,000 years to degrade and they break down into tiny particles that contaminate our soil and water. Plastic is a petroleum-based material, and when burned it's like any other fossil fuel, it releases climate change. This in turn leads to rising sea levels, increased ocean and air toxicity, and destruction of coral reefs and other marine life.

I think that making it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles will help the cleaners to lessen their work. When these are thrown away they harm the earth in so many ways, like how it takes years for them to decompose. We are causing landfills to fill up rapidly by throwing it away instead of recycling them. As a result the landfills will start to smell and become toxic form different kinds of harmful chemicals. Recycling can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons, that contribute to global climate change.

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So why do I support these two specific proposals?Based on my personal experience,sometimes I forget to recycle my juice box after finishing it but with the implications from others it could really help students like me to remember to recycle so we are able to conserve our resources because conservation would reduce the need for extracting such as mining, quarrying and logging, for the refining and processing of raw materials.Moreover, recycling also saves energy as it reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which helps to tackle climate change.Moving on,to support my other point on why we should carry out the banning of plastic bags, i’d like to share an article that has stated that plastics was the largest category of waste disposed in Singapore last year which was roughly about 763,400 tonnes according to data from the National Environment Agency.Not only that,only 6 percent of the 815,200 of the plastic waste generated was recycled so If the proposal of the banning of plastic bags would be carried out  it could help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide from the burning of plastics and with lesser carbon dioxide we could reverse the effects of climate change.

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I support these ideas as i have tried to stop using plastic bags as every time one plastic bags is burned, it generates 33 grams of carbon dioxide. When i tried to stop using plastic bags, to be honest it was really difficult as every time I’d go grocery shopping as I would forget to bring the reusable bags or not bringing enough bags, but gradually over time it would be a habit for me to bring the reusable bags.
Second is making compulsory to recycle all plastic bags and recyclables. When i started trying to recycle all my plastic bags, i could see that my trash can took a longer time to fill up. I saw this article about Semakau almost being at the maximum capacity in 2025. And since recycling all plastic could save a lot of Garbage being thrown away and this could slow down the process of the island being filled.

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Thank you for listening uwu

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I support the ‘Stop providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and the bookshop’ because i plastic is one of the biggest contributors to pollution and it harms a lot of wild life. There is ‘an estimated 300 million plastic bags every year end up in the Atlantic Ocean alone’. This shows that the amount of plastic is no joke and kills more marine life than you know. For instance, turtles like to eat jellyfish. Jellyfish is translucent and floats on the surface of the water. So plastic bags, like the jellyfish, floats on the surface of the water and is translucent too. Turtles will mistake plastic bags as jellyfish and consume it, harming their body. There are about 1,000 sea turtles die annually from digesting plastic. This shows that if we stop using plastic bags we can cut down a lot of pollution.
I support the ‘make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles’ because the same reason applies, wildlife will be hurt.

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I agree that we should make recycling compulsory as it will help to protect Nemos offsprings.Water pollution is very detrimental to the whole ecosystem.For example,Turtles.If they are trapped on plastic bags they might die which will affect the whole food chain.The sharks will die which means that groupers will have no food too.By the way have you heard of the phrase”what goes around comes around”?well it it is quite literal.When you throw plastic bags into the sea fishes eats the bag thinking that it is prey.the fishes will then be caught and placed on our plate.

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We all know the purpose of the usage of plastic bags was (is) to carry items we have bought. They can carry heavy books that you just bought from a bookshop, or even new clothes for school because your old ones are too small. Plastic is a good material I agree, but they can still pollute our environment. Plastic bags were invented to save the our planet, according to the son of Swedish engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin who created them in 1959. The bags were developed as an alternative to paper bags, which were considered bad for the environment because they resulted in forests being chopped down. (Connector) Plastic bags start (tense) out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. About 90 percent of all the plastic waste that reaches the world's oceans gets flushed through the rivers, littering, windblown waste, industrial waste, and municipal waste. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. (connector) We can still overcome this situation

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I support these initiatives because both ideas support the idea that the amount of plastic used and discarded has to be reduced. Plastic bags, balloons and plastic streamers are all made of plastic. These items are usually used once and then thrown away. When these items are thrown away, they will pollute the environment. A huge problem is that plastic is extremely hard to decompose and can take hundreds of years which occupies a lot of space on our waste disposal areas. Balloons that are released into the air can fall down to the sea and pollute it. When plastic pollutes the sea, fish and other sea creatures are killed. According to statistics, 100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone and about 100 000 marine animals die from getting entangled in plastic yearly. Plastic also contributes heavily to climate change. Sunlight and heat cause the plastic to release powerful greenhouse gases, leading to an alarming feedback loop. As our climate changes, the planet gets hotter, the plastic breaks down into more methane and ethylene, hence increasing the rate of climate change, and so perpetuating the cycle. Globally, in a year alone, researchers estimate that the production and incineration of plastic will pump more than 850 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. By 2050, those emissions could rise to 2.8 billion tonnes which increases the speed of more severe climate change happening. However, we can stop this. If we cut down our plastic use, the amount of plastic disposed on landfills will decrease and thus, the amount of greenhouse gases will also decrease.

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As from what i was saying, i wanted to add that i support the environmental clubs action as the examples are things that we could do using little time, and to help out our earth.

As everyone’s role plays a part during this crisis, and also from my own experience, i am very much of a lazy person that small things like making it compulsory to recycle all drink cans and plastic bottles, would definitely be skipped by me as i find it troublesome, but with the thought that all of us would be affected by climate change, i feel that we should change. Our selfish actions and laziness are the cause of why the climate change is happening. Banning balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound can be easy, and these actions could stop and slow down climate change. Therefore i urge, everyone, to play a part, small actions like recycling can help a lot. Preventing pollution and environmental conservation, you may follow the actions that I’ve stated above such as reducing or stopping the use of plastic bags,  thank you and have a nice day.

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So why do i support these two specific proposals?Sometimes I forget to recycle my juice box after finishing it but with the implications from others it could really help students like me to remember to recycle so we are able to conserve our resources and put it to another use!To further explain why,I think that the banning of plastic bags could also help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide from the burning of plastics.With lesser carbon dioxide we could reverse the effects of climate change.

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I believe these two proposals are the best ways to raise our efforts to combat land pollution and many other things that harm our planet.

For example, plastic bags. Plastic bags harm our planet in so many ways. Plastic bags take hundreds and thousands of years of decompost and when they do, they release harmful toxic substances into the soil which affects the flora and funa.

Every second, 160,000 plastic bags are used around the world and we only use these plastic bags for an average of about 12 minutes. It’s a waste of space and resources.

If you still want to use plastic, use biodegradable plastic bags. Yes, biodegradable are 0.3 cents more expensive than a normal one but biodegradable plastic bags break down much faster than other products. Biodegradable products break down into  water vapour and organic material, which aren't harmful to the environment. Typically, they're made from sustainable materials and plant by-products, such as cornstarch or sugarcane.

To add on, biodegradable plastic bags still produce carbon footprint but it is significantly lesser that of typical plastic.

Oh, of course, you can save yourself the headache of finding a place that uses biodegradable plastic bags by using tote bags. Tote bag comes in many designs and colours as a bonus, they’re reusable. There’s not really much to say. You buy one tote bag, you save the cost of about 100+ plastic bags. Skip all the talks and research about plastic bags. Just get a tote bag. Or 2.

Just remember to bring the tote when going shopping and you’re good.

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I think that we should all support the initiatives that i have listed above as it will not only benefit others , but ourselves as well.

Thank you for listening and i hope you like my opinions and thoughts on the Environmental Club’s proposal.

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These initiative can help with global warming as one plastic bag can generate 33 grams of co2 so,if we reduce the amount of plastic bags given,we could have lesser carbon dioxide in the surrounding thus reducing climate change.Hence,I fully support in the efforts in improving global warming and doing precautions that can benefit the environment.we have to slowly implement banning of plastic items,balloons,plastic bag ,etc.As a immediate change can cause some inconvenience

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Providing plastic bags for purchases from the school canteen and bookshop may seem a little unessassary if the student is only buying a few stationeries but if really needed , i think that they should bring their own tote bag or buy one from the bookshop instead of using plastic bags.

Making it compulsory for students and Teachers to recycle all drink cans and plastic bottles not only help the cleaners lessen their work, but also help themselves by learning and practising recycling so that they can make it a habit to recycle on a daily basis.

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I believe these 2 proposals are the most effective and has minimal effort put into it. Us younger generations are usually too lazy to do anything, so I thought of a way that we can do to stop global warming without having to do the extreme. But we should still put in our effort to stop global warming and throwing away things that could be recycled. Bringing up the turtle situation I’ve mentioned earlier, the turtles are endangered and we should do everything we can to prevent turtles and other sea creatures from going extinct. After doing some research, I found out that 52% of the world’s turtles has already have eaten plastic waste as plastic resembles jellyfishes which are apart of the turtle’s diet. Let’s not be the cause of the extinction of turtles and other sea creatures
just because we refuse to recycle or reduce our trash

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‘Why do you support them?’ I hear you ask. Or maybe you didn’t ask but thats besides the point. (Is this necessary?) I support these ideas because i think they could really help us in going towards zero waste. The first point made was to stop providing plastic bags from the school canteens and bookshops. This helps us reduce plastic waste and helps us work towards zero waste. As we all know plastic can be very harmful to the environment and reducing the amount of plastic waste may help us in stopping climate change. Experts say that By 2050, 12 billion tonnes of plastic waste will be in our landfills and natural environment. This will most certainly threaten more of our wildlife and potentially human health. The second point which is to make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles. By recycling, we reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators. Incinerators burn the waste we produce and by burning waste we are not really helping with the whole global warming scene. I can also hear you ask why we need to reduce the amount of waste reaching ourlandfils. well, One of the bigger reasons to reduce waste is to conserve space in our landfills and reduce the need to build more landfills which take up valuable space and are a source of air and water pollution. so, we should really start recycling kids because if we do not start recycling, we are all gonna suffer.

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I think these initiatives are effective as they would lessen the use of plastics in school, by not providing plastic bags from the school canteen or bookshop allows the students to be more encourage to bring their own recyclble bags, and also reduce the waste of plastic usuage and preventing a higher chance of littering.The second initiatives which bans the use of ballons and plastic streamers reduces the need of plastic waste and the need of buying them, students would have a more open mind now as they have limited choices when buying decorations for their classroom, which allows them to be more creative when decorating it, which makes both method effective as not only it would save the environment but also allows the students to be more creative and have a sense of why the should recycle. And i would also like to share my own personal stories when i recycle, i remember when i first started recycling, i had a weak sense of responsibility and i alsways though that it was a waste of time. After i watch some yotube videos, i relised how important recycling was so i started taking it more seriously, there was some difficulties like sorting out thee different recyclbes as it would get messey, overall i think that recycling is really important and it can change our societ for the better, thus, i think that the initiatives that the environmental club proposed was very good and effeciant.

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I know you guys might be wondering why this ? Even sometimes I would forget to put the plastic bottles back to the recycling bin, but with the constant reminder from my peers, this slowly became a habit of mine ! To give further explanation from bullet point 2 which states the ideas that were proposed by the environmental club , I feel that, yes, the use of non bio-degradable items should be banned and be refrained from using daily. as for example, one plastic bag when degraded, it emits at least an ounce of carbon dioxide which contributes to destroying the ozone layer. pulau samakau, the island that is currently holding our non-degradable rubbish, is going to be completely filled in 2025 based on National Environment Agency.

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Why do I support these initiatives? First, It takes 1000 years for polyethylene bags to degrade/break down • Plastic bags don't biodegrade, they photo-degrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways.  Plastic bags clog both our solid waste facilities and storm drains. • Plastic is the largest source of ocean litter. This is a big contributing factor towards climate change. I can also sugggest that we should charge students a sum of money whenever they request/use plastic bag. Charging for plastic bags is proven to be effective. In Britian, usage dropped by 85% 6 months after the policy was introduced. The overall usage was down by 6 billion. Many other markets have also implemented this policy including Taiwan, Penang, South Korea, Northern Ireland and several states in the USA. I feel that it does not take much of your time or energy to use a recycling bag and/or reduce the usage of plastic.

Secondly, why should we make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles? Discarding bottles and cans instead of recycling them means we must constantly use new materials to manufacture the 24 billion new beverage containers we buy every year. Recycling also brings: 41 million tons less greenhouse gas emissions since the bottle bill passed—equal to saving nearly 96 million barrels of oil. We can dedicate one school period every week to recycling.

Recycling also conserves resources and protects the environment. Environmental benefits include reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and combustion facilities; conserving natural resources, such as timber, water and minerals; and preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials. We can also award the class points on how much they recycle and it can contribute to winning the champion class award!

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In my opinion, i feel that plastic bags are just for convenience rather then actually needing it for carrying items, as usually the items bought from the canteen can be consumed directly and the items bought from the bookshop are usually stationeries or books which could be easily carried or stored in the school bag. Additionally, plastic bags are often thrown away after being used once although it might still be clean and reusable, due to how convenient plastic bags are, people don’t often recycle plastic bags or reuse them. This is a problem because plastic takes a lot of years to decompose, which accumulated, can take up a lot of space in the landfill. Additionally,if plastic bags are not properly disposed of, they can cause blockage of water canals. Animals may also get tangled and drown in plastic bags. Animals often confuse the bags for food and consume them, one example is the sea turtles as their main food are jellyfishes, therefore blocking their digestive process. Therefore, i support the first idea on not providing plastic bags for purchases from the school. Lastly, the harmful toxic chemicals released by the plastic might leach into the ground and into the groundwater and potentially contaminating drinking water supplies, rivers, streams.

Secondly, i support the initiative on banning of balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound. This is because people don’t often clean up the plastic waste and if a helium balloon was to fly up into the sky, it could continue flying for a very long time and eventually after hitting an altitude, it would fall back onto earth, and the chance that it would fall on the ocean is huge due to the ocean covering up to seventy percent of the earth. As it lands on the ocean, it is impossible to clean it up as it can be anywhere and no one knows where it would be. This could cause problems such as the wildlife mistaking the balloon as food. One example would be the sea turtles, as their diet consists of jellyfishes. A balloon or plastic bags could look very similar to a jellyfish and the turtles might consume them, leading to them getting choked by the ballon or blocking their breathing canals, which can also cause difficulty breathing.

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On the other new rule of making it compulsory to recycle used drink cans and plastic bottles i have to agree with their point. We as students really like sweet drink, well most of us like it. We buy and drink different sugary drinks at least one or two per day, either during recess or after school this much consumption creates a lot of waste and do you know what we do with all that waste? We throw it away. We don’t even try asking around for the recycling bin we just dispose of it like it will just magically disappear when it enters the bin. But no! In fact it is dumped on an island that was purposely designated for trash! This landfill is called  Semakau Landfill the landfill may be self sustainable and is a waste-to-energy plant however it is running out of space! Scientists believe that the land fill will be completely full by 2035 if we don’t change our ways. Not only that another reason i support their point is because of our schools current state when it comes to recycling i say this because whenever i go the put away my bowl you know what i see? I see piles and piles of EMPTY pack drinks in the bin! Little to no one bothered to even TRY to rinse the packet drink for recycling! So I agree with them if we aren’t cabebal of rinsing A SMALL PACKET DRINK  then i think it is very necessary to make it compulsory to recycle the used drink cans and bottles.

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I support the bullet points 1 and 2, which wrote “ stop providing plastic bags fir purchase from the school canteen and the bookshop.” , and “make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles.” as i feel that scenarios where the points need to be made are imaginable while on the other hand it is quite rare to have balloons or plastic streamers within school compounds

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As Reducing the use of plastic is important because plastic production requires an enormous amount of energy and resources. This causes carbon emissions and contributes to global warming. Recycling plastic is not efficient only 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.Which will cause there to be more plastic bags to be burnt and will cause more carbon emissions.By reducing the amount of plastic utensils used will reduce the amount of carbon emissions from both making it and the burning of the plastic utensils As the carbon footprint of plastic is that plastic will make about 6 kg of CO2 per kg of plastic. So by reducing the amount of plastic utensils given out, there will be lesser amount of carbon emissions produced.

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Good evening Mr Chan , Mdm Poh , Mr Adam , Teachers, and fellow brooksians..I am abbelynn from 2 i. As you alll know a few days ago the Environment Club had shared some articles about environmental issues and had also proposed a few ideas to reduce waste. Therefore, today I will be sharing my opinion and thoughts on what the environmental Club has propsed.

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You might ask why I support these two initiatives. These actions do not need much effort to be put in and is easy to do. There is no reason why no one would not be able to recycle. The plastics we use everyday could be ended up in the ocean and land. Animals might mistake it as their food and eventually will be entangled within it. It is estimated that about 60% of seabirds have eaten pieces of plastic and the percentage is estimated to increase to 99% by 2050. Dead seabirds are often found stomachs full of plastic, reflecting how the amount of garbage in our oceans has rapidly increased in the past 40 years. 100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone and 1 in 3 marine mammal species get found entangled in litter. Animals frequently mistake rubber from the balloons as their food. Sea turtles are particularly vulnerable, as balloons are easily confused for their jellyfish prey. As we are the ones who created this climate change mess, it’s only right for us to it clean up.

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These actions should be taken now as we should start solving this issue before it gets to out of hand to the point where we cannot control it. Besides what the environmental club said, there are also many other ways to stop this issue. Thus, I hope you can share with your fellow classmates and friends. As this will help encourage more people in the future to help. Thank you for listening to my speech, have a great day.

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So I would like to invite all of you to start using reusable bags and straws and start of recycle used plastic bottles. The reason being to start is that every time u recycle on plastic bag, it might save one turtle and might even save the earth.

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Firstly, I think that is great that it should be compulsory to recycle all drink cans as some students do not care about the environment and pollution. So, by having this, these students will be able to learn that environmental conservation is really important and that if we don’t continue to contribute to help the environment, the earth might be in huge trouble. Secondly, I agree with banning balloon and plastic streamers as it helps reduce the amount of rubber and plastic used in order to create these items. Furthermore, it helps the environment as lesser fossil fuels wont be burnt

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So what I’m trying to say is that we should start going green now! In fact we should have started earlier. But we have a chance now, a chance to have clear blue oceans, a chance to see beautiful green trees and a chance to breathe fresh clean air everyday if we miss out on this chance we might not live to get another. So lets start recycling, lets start making the ocean blue again, lets start making our trees greener than ever before. Lets not only do it for us but for the generations after. Lets work together to make a cleaner, greener and brighter future for all of us.

Thank you for listing and please enjoy the day ahead!

OR Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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The ideas that I agree with is that, it should be compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles and that how we should ban balloons and plastic streamers within the school compound.

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So now all of you are probably thinking ‘why should i support these points?’ or if you didn’t then think about it so this part makes sense. So, we need to support these initiatives because we need to save our world. Our planet is currently dying and not alot of people really cares. By reducing the amount of waste we produce we conserve the space in our landfills. on top of that, by reducing waste we conserve resources and we save energy too. Please remember yes, in simple terms, if do not start now in saving earth, there is a high chance we might not survive . so, please ah be smart about it ok. thank you for listening to my speech and i hope you take this seriously. Byebye!

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These actions should be taken now because if we start now, we will still have time to change. These are only some suggestions by the environment club and there are still some more ideas that we can do and share with other people. If we share with more people, more people will understand the situation and help us with it. This is Wai hong from northbrooks and i hope you understand and learn something new today. Please, help to prevent climate change.

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Good morning ,Mr Chan ,Mdm Poh ,Mr Adam,Teachers and fellow Brooksians, my name is Catherine from 2 Integrity and I’ll be sharing my stance and thoughts on the environmental club’s proposal today.

First of all i would like to start off by saying that these proposals are of great importance because we as Citizens or residents of Singapore should take this seriously for our future generations to come.Whatever we do now affects our future,its up to us as the present generation to fix this mess called climate change.On the contrary, this not only applies to Singapore , I think the topic,pollution and environmental conservation is an idea that should be globally shared and done.I know I am still young but I want to play my part in this by encourage others to do as well!

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Good Morning fellow students and teachers, I am Isaac Fong of 2I and I am here today to share with you and convince you to support some ideas proposed by the environmental club. I agree with some of the ideas which were proposed but not all. This is because I think that some of the action taken through these ideas might be bad for some students. How will it be bad for students, you may ask. I will be explaining my reasons on why I support some of the ideas and I will also be sharing how these ideas can be changed to better suit all students.

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On the other new rule of making it compulsory to recycle used drink cans and plastic bottles i have to agree with their point. We as students really like sweet drink, well most of us like it. We buy and drink different sugary drinks at least one or two per day, either during recess or after school this much consumption creates a lot of waste and do you know what we do with all that waste? We throw it away. We don’t even try asking around for the recycling bin we just dispose of it like it will just magically disappear when it enters the bin. But no! In fact it is dumped on in island that was purposely designated for trash! Destroying what could be a beautiful nature reserve for the many plants and animals in our country! And whenever i go the put away my bowl you know what i see? I see piles and piles of EMPTY pack drinks in the bin! Little to no one bothered to even TRY to rinse the packet drink for recycling! So I agree with them if we aren’t cabebal of rinsing A SMALL PACKET DRINK  then i think it is very necessary to make it compulsory to recycle the used drink cans and bottles.

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One of the main pollutants on our planet 🌍 are plastics. Mainly, plastic bags. They are one of the most common item that plastic is made of. And like most plastics when it decomposes it turns into micro plastics.

Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment. A microplastic is defined as a plastic particle that is less than five millimeters. Microplastics enter our ecosystems through many ways. Sewage is a key factor in the distribution of microplastics. In fact, 80 to 90 percent of the plastic particles stored in sewage persist in the sludge. This sewage sludge is used as fertilizer, thus causing a lot of these microplastics to seep into our soils. This could cause a lot of harm to the environment because the surfaces of tiny fragments of plastic may carry diseases. Microplastics can further interact with plants, affecting their health and functions. Based on their research, UN Environment stated, “Earthworms, for example, make their burrows differently when microplastics are present in the soil, affecting the earthworm’s fitness and the soil condition.” This can further damage the rest of the environment by reducing the population of plants that are dependent on earthworms.

Singapore is a green city but if we do nothing to prevent these plastic bags from polluting our land, our green grass, our lush trees and our bright and beautiful flowers might disappear because of a few plastic bags.

And that’s why i strongly agree with  our environmental club we shouldn’t let this green city disappear because of a few free plastic bags. We should support these new changes that just might change this school for the better.

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The 2 initiatives that i am supporting are to stop providing plastic bags in the bookshop and the canteen and to make it a must to recycle all used plastic bottles and canned drinks.

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Good morning or evening, principals, staff and students. I’m Uzma  from 2I and I’m talking to you through this screen to convince you. Convince you on what? Good question.

Our school’s Environmental Club have proposed certain changes to help  our nation towards being a zero-waste nation and I’m here to convince you to support these changes because global warming is real and it’s here. It’s not stopping for anybody and we need to change that.

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Balloons. Streamers. All fun and games of popping and streaming until you dispose of them. I think I’ve already establish that plastic is really bad but I need to emphasise that balloons and streamers are terrible for the environment. Terrible, Terrible. Balloons and streamers are litter.

They can get stuck on plants, animals can mistaken them for food and animals can get stuck with the plastic circle around the bottle cap around their legs which would restrict their growth. They can also end up in oceans. Studies say that there’ll be more plastic than animals by 2050. Isn’t that scary?

But, there are alternatives. This is turning into a alternatives Ted-talk. Anyways, send flying Wish Papers. Wish papers are when you write something on a paper and you set it aflame. If you want to send something to the sky, send that. It’s way less harmful.

Floating flowers. You gather some flowers, put them into a pond or river and watch them drift away. It also gives you the same feeling of letting something go while being environmentally friendly.

You can also plant a tree. I mean it would be cool to see the tree grow up. It’ll be like your birthday tree because you planted it during your birthday

And for streamers, you can make paper flowers and tape them to the walls. You can reuse paper and make a pretty flower. Who doesn’t want that? It all depends on your origami skills but it’s the thoughts that counts.

You could get paper pinwheels, put them on a rope with the paper flowers and you get a environmentally friendly streamer.

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In conclusion, I would strongly urge you guys to put the ideas that the Environmental Club suggested into action!Remember there is no second Earth!We need to conserve our resources now because if not now then when?

Thank you for listening to my speech!Have a nice day.

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I feel that they can do something like reducing the number of plastic bag used like those who buy more food or buy in packets then give them the plastic bag but those that are not buying in packets, don’t give them the bag. They can also give a speech on how using more plastics will harm the environment and make students and also the public understand

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The idea that i disagree is the school to stop providing plastic bags to the students. The reason is because some students might not want to consume the food in school and they want to bring the food home to consume. By not providing the plastic bags, the students will not have anything to store their food in and this will cause the students being frustrated as they did not bring anything to store their food

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‘Why do you support them?’ I hear you ask. Or maybe you didn’t ask but thats besides the point.  I support these ideas because i think they could really help us in going towards zero waste. The first point made was to stop providing plastic bags from the school canteens and bookshops. This helps us reduce plastic waste and helps us work towards zero waste. As we all know plastic can be very harmful to the environment and reducing the amount of plastic waste may help us in stopping climate change. The second point which is to make it compulsory to recycle all used drink cans and plastic bottles. By recycling, we reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators. Incinerators burn the waste we produce and by burning waste we are not really helping with the whole global warming scene. so, we should really start recycling kids.

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These initiatives should be taken now, the earlier the better and maybe global warming will get fixed faster. I hope that more people will start taking actions and encourage other people to take part in this. Thank you for listening

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Plastic bags) I agree with this initiative as the plastic bags are usually just thrown in the usage of only about 5 minutes so plastic bags should stop being distributed so that plastic bags won’t get wasted
Banning balloons) I agree with this is because this will also reduce the amount of rubbers and plastic being burnt after it being either thrown on the floor or it being wasted after 5 minutes of usage. This will also help in fixing global warming as it decreases the temperature around us as it decreases the amount of plastics and rubbers being burnt.