Saw this article after my interview with Toshiba today:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/lifestylenews/view/321516/1/.html.
Soon to be a material engineer proper, and specialise in plastic, I really can't help to think of the harm some of my predessor had done on the environment, rather than the convenience the invention of cheap plastic had brought along. When things get cheap, people no longer pay attention to it, and trash them whenever they want.
Singapore had took a tiny, winny step to tackle the problem, not providing plastic bags to shoppers on some Wednesday at local supermarket. That had, and will never solve the problem. We locals are just too dumb and ignorant about the problem, and the people on top play along to please us. Their boss is telling them to encourage less usage of platic bag, but the same time they are giving 2 bags to carry a 'heavy' merchendise.
This is total bullshit.
I remember someone was quoting how inconvenient is to dispose of garbage in coutries like the West and Japan, where you have to separate out everything. But in my head, I just call them idiots.
China was doing that when I was there, and often times the locals call them backward. Now, you tell me who are the backward, modern cavemen.
In this sort of situation, when will be our turn to curb this problem?
Let's just hope it is not too late, when the day that our island is going to be submerged in the ocean in a month's time.