Africa-Press – Tanzania. VISIT any part of Finland that is the world’s cleanest and greenest country in the world according to the EPI index in year 2016 (Environmental Performance Index) prepared by Yale and Columbia Universities, you would be surprised that when you visit a Supermarket and purchase a bottle (plastic) of water, after drinking, you are paid for the bottle.
Their culture is that an environment must be made to look friendly to the citizens who are its custodians. This habit is making their country to have more than 80 percent of their water bodies ranging from lakes to streams to be either good or excellent in quality.
This ought to remind Tanzanians that no one is born with a culture, but it is something we acquire in environment as we grow up. We should also assume this culture of respecting the environment to be friendly to it, and above all be its custodians, knowing very well that no one will come to protect/conserve it on the citizens’ behalf once abused.
Tanzanians, therefore, should see into it that all sorts of used plastic bottles are collected in a gentle way back to be recycled. While increased water bottle sales can mean fewer cavities and slimmer waistlines, it also means big trouble for our environment.
In fact, the plastic bottles contribute a lot in the sum of all plastic waste in the country. Should we be concerned about this? Of course we should. In many countries, below mineral water bottles, which usually come in plastic form, there is a short notice saying “crush before dispose”. The question is, why should we crush plastic bottles before we dispose it into trash bin? Many of us are still throwing away whole plastic bottle in the trash bin without crushing them, even though it actually has a solid reason. It might be a small action, but actually it contributes a lot to us.
So, make it clear, we try to mention some reasons why it is better to crush empty plastic bottles before throwing them away into trash bins. Without crushing plastic bottles, there is a risk that the bottle will be reused.
Reusing plastic bottle is not a good option, and throwing away plastic bottles after only one use is neither a good thing for the environment. So, the only option left is to recycle it. But can we recycle plastic bottles after being crushed? We definitely can, and in fact it helps the process a lot.
You should know that to recycle those plastic bottles into a new bottle, they need to be crushed and then shredded into pieces. In addition to that, crushed plastic water bottles take up a lot less space than whole plastic bottles in the trash bins. It will let the trash bin to accommodate more crushed plastic bottles or any other kinds of trash.
With this school of thought it is important that we try to recycle them to keep them out of our landfills.
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