Our school had carried out an activity to fight against white pollution and develop a green community yesterday. As you know, white pollution affects the naturally environment and the wellbeing of both animals and humans. In an activity, we cleaned up plastic waste at or around the campus. In addition, we called on people use recyclable items instead of plastic bags and provided them for free cotton bags.

I really appreciate this experience as it raised my aware of white pollution. I'd avoid use plastics and urge others to do the same. Like a famous saying goes, many hands make light work.   So let's start from us and act from now on.

8 . Reducing food waste is easy — just ask the students at a school in Wood bridge, America, who have become experts at sorting their lunchtime trash (垃圾). Since the fall of 2019, they have actively participated in a successful food-waste diversion program that not only saves money but also contributes to reducing the amount of trash that heads to landfills.

Actually, this program plays a crucial role in facing up to the challenges of climate change. By reducing food waste,the school minimizes the amount of trash sent to landfills, thereby reducing harmful methane emissions (沼气排放). The school’s program is making a significant impact. Each month, it moves over 1,300 pounds of food waste, resulting in an estimated reduction of 772 pounds in CO, emissions and the production of 180 kilowatt-hours of energy, according to Blue Earth Compost in America.

At school, when students are done eating lunch, they head to an appointed section — a row of desks, garbage cans and containers — where they sort their trash. Leftover liquids, such as juice or milk,are emptied into a big basin on the floor. The juice containers and plastic water bottles are placed into another container to recycle. Additionally, prepackaged, unopened snacks such as bags of carrots as well as produce such as apples and bananas are “rescued” and placed into a big basket with a handwritten “Donations” sign taped to it to send to the town’s senior center.

The benefits extend beyond environmental awareness. The program reduces trash-carrying costs as less weight goes into the trash bins,making it easier for cleaners to manage. The students also find this planet-friendly practice enjoyable and meaningful, considering it a small game that contributes to a bigger cause. This initiative proves that collective efforts, even on a smaller scale, can lead to significant changes, not only in waste reduction but also in educating a generation committed to preserving our planet.

9 . Along with the birds flying over the Ailao Mountains in Yunnan province, a forest police team has similarly been “migrating” since September and will stay in the mountains until March to prevent poaching and other wildlife crimes.

Nicknamed the “migratory police station”, the seven officers with the forest police station of Hongtupo, Nanhua county, carry extra clothing, quilts and daily necessities while “migrating” in the forests on an annual mission to safeguard the bird travelers.

Zhang Yueping, who has worked at the station for 17 years, said the Ailao Mountains, which are rich in biodiversity, are located along an important route for 430 kinds of migratory birds.

According to Zhang, some local villagers who used to live in extreme poverty hunted birds for food or as a source of income, which resulted in a “silent mountain” where no birds were singing.

Jobs usually occur at night, when “we brave the darkness and bumpy mountain road with no torchlight to catch poachers,” according to Officer Yang Zhengqiang.

Officer Liu Yan, who once worked at the station, said winter was the hardest time, because her quilt was never dry due to the high humidity (潮湿) in the mountains.

Despite the hardships, officers said their work is worthwhile, with the number of birds as well as the number of species in the forests increasing over the years. Due to the combination of officers and technology, all kinds of animals and plants have returned to the reserve. “The environment is improving year by year, and people’s lives get better and they have stronger awareness of protection, making our jobs very fulfilling.” Zhang said.

10 . Summer music festivals are in full swing, which means that thousands of enthusiastic fans are camping nearby, ready to party. Big problems appear, however, when it comes time for them to leave. They just throw their things away and leave them for someone else to clean up—usually waste contractors (承包方) hired by the music festival. They collect all things and throw them unsorted into a landfill.

Music festivals are environmental disasters when it comes to the amount of trash produced, and this results mostly from festival-goers’ strange disposable (用完即弃的) mentality. An estimated 80 percent of trash produced by music festivals comes from what’s left behind by campers, such as sleeping bags, camp chairs, clothes, rubber boots and leftover food.

After the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK saw 10,000 abandoned (被丢弃的) tents in 2011, some environmentally-minded people decided to take action. An international movement called “Love Your Tent” was started. The movement took over a single campground at the festival and ensured that every person who wanted to camp there signed a conduct agreement that included promising to take their camping equipment home. Its first year in 2012 was a success.

Unfortunately, it continues to be a battle. When “Love Your Tent” did a survey of students at Buckinghamshire New University last year, the result showed that 60 percent of participants admitted to leaving tents behind in the past, even though 86 percent recognized that waste has an impact on the environment.

One major impediment to waste reduction is that camping equipment is cheap and of poor quality so that nobody sees the sense in packing up a dirty tent and taking it home to clean and reuse.

While there’s no easy solution to this trash disaster, it’s clear that music festival organizers need to take responsibility for what their event creates, and demand that campers clean up their act. Organizers could also provide tent-recycling facilities for those people who keep leaving tents behind. Camping, which is supposed to be a celebration of music, should never become a trash fest (集会).