Monday, February 1, 2010

The environment



The world is worried about global warming but recently the Ice Age will be coming in about 20~30 years. It is the curse of El Nino.

Now we have to take action about our environment. First, the government should make wind and solar power plants. This country does not have enough energy. Last summer 3 times a week our power was interrupted. In this country, in the summer, if the power is not supplied for the A/C, it is the same as terrorism. 7 years ago, in the summer, a power plant broke down. In Dubai, there was confusion on the roads, the hotels, shopping malls, and everything. First of all, the A/C wouldn’t work. That time, I was stuck on the road for 4 hours in the car with Minwook. It was horrible!

Next, they must start a garbage collection system. They should recycle bottles, cans, papers and food, etc… My husband went to a garbage mountain. There were a lot of laborers who wore the mask and they separated the garbage. It is very hard work and waste of time and money.

Then, they must make sewage plants. A few years ago, they started to make sewage lines but I don’t know where the sewage disposal plant is!! They should clean the sea. We should conserve what we have.

After that, last summer, Carrefour started to sell the plastic bags. Then suddenly, they didn’t give them. Maybe many people complained or the costumers reduced. In Korea, If you bring own shopping bag, the shop give a discount to us.

Finally, we need to take action on how to protect the environment. I suggest these ideas in real life.
1. We have to cook as much as we eat.
(1 ton of waste food is thrown away a year for a 4- person family on average)
2. All taps should be on water saving systems.
(When you turn on the tap, 11~18 liters of water is wasted every 1 minute.)
3. You need to put in a brick in the toilet water tank. You can save water.
4. You shouldn’t throw away left over juice or alcohol.
(They spoil 1 ton of pure water.)
5. Most of the problem is oil waste. Where did you throw it?
In Korea we bring the oil to the city municipality and they give us soap. First they collect waste oil and add in caustic soda. Then, they stir it until it mixes well. Next, they put it in small boxes. After that, it will become hard and they cut it to soap size. Finally, waste oil is reborn as soap.

We should act on all the good helpful information available

5 comments:

  1. Your writing is so good now Mina. I learn a lot of new words from your writing!! In Thailand waste oil reuse for cars too. We some time can smell chicken when car goes pass 555

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  2. Yes, lot's of useful information!! And your computer skill has improved as well! So many nice pictures in your blog now.

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  3. Bravo mina you write a lot, I saw that your country has good recycling.

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  4. Mina, you have a lots of good ideas. When there is rain in UEA, i drive my car like a boat in the water. Also, you are good at putting picture on your computer, i always take lots of time for my picture.

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  5. Mina, you wrote well! We have lack of electricity and it's expensive. I wish these problems will be soon solved. and I think we should to conserve electricity.

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