Wonderful and Terrible
There are only two of us at home, but we throw out one big bag of plastic garbage every week. I would like to say goodbye to plastic because I know it is bad for the environment, but I can’t. Everything comes in plastic these days: supermarket vegetables, tofu, eggs, rice, and bread. Plastic is good because it keeps our food fresh longer, and it is much easier for stores to sell food in plastic packages. However, plastic doesn’t go away after you use it. If you burn it, the smoke is bad for your health. If it gets into the sea, birds and turtles eat it, and they die. Plastic also breaks up into microplastics and gets inside fish, animals, and plants. When we eat them, the plastic gets inside us. Plastic is both wonderfully convenient for us and terrible for the environment! (144 words) You can send me a comment or your own story at jaremaga@gmail.com