The Condition of the Enviroment

I've written a small essay on the environment and would like you to take a look at it. I used some phrases and words which I hesitated about, so some phrases can seem strange to you.


The Condition of the Environment
More and more people are getting concerned about the environment nowadays. The number of such people is growing very rapidly. The reason for it is quite obvious: people do not want to live on the polluted and consequently dangerous planet.
I would emphasize three main problems. First of all, it’s air pollution. It’s proved that air pollution adversely affects your health and can cause a large number of diseases such as cancer for example,.
In order to solve this problem we should simply take some measures to cut down air pollution in big cities. For instance, we could introduce a law (I have failed to find a more appropriate word, so please help me) which would forbid factories to work and produce anything without special filters. It would also be good if we banned cars from city centers. Such a measure would have a very good effect in rather small cities with the population not more than 1.5 million people. The citizens of small cities can usually get to the city center by bus or even on foot. Cars release so many poisonous gases into the air that reduction of the number of cars in such cities would result in the reduction of these poisonous gases.
Secondly, it is the so-called problem of litter. Plenty of people are very worried about this problem, too. Dirty streets can give you only a very slight idea of what dropping litter in streets can result in. Dropping an aluminum can in the street just think how much harm it might do. Bearing in mind that we contract many diseases by inhaling infected air and litter creates the most favourable conditions for bacterium you will probably break the habit of dropping litter in streets. It’s not difficult to put your can in a litter bin at all!
Lastly, it’s water pollution. To my mind, the best way of solving this problem is to fine factories which pollute rivers, lakes, and seas. Before fining them, it would be a good idea to make all the factories install filters which reduce the number of poisonous substances polluting water. However, in most countries it’s impossible to do it due to these factories being of great value to them. As a result, they can’t stop using factories or reduce the volume of their production. Another good way of solving the problem of water pollution is to limit use of chemicals in industry. But here we face another problem. Many plants can’t help stopping using some chemicals since they cannot work without them. So, we are in a dilemma over whether to fine factories polluting lakes, seas, and rivers and to reduce the volume of their production or not.
There is no doubt there are plenty of other environmental problems such as acid rains, deforestation, global warming and so on and so forth but to my mind, these problems are not as topical now as those I mentioned.
Having paid so much attention to all these environmental problems I have to say a few words about recycling. It is a very important subject, and one that is becoming more so all the time. There are four main materials which can be recycled. First of all, it is paper. Paper is considered to be the easiest material to recycle. For instance, 20 tons of paper was recycled in the USA in 1990 which was a big success. Secondly, it’s metal. This material is also rather easy to recycle. A huge number of things we use are made of metal, so the more metal we recycle the better our planet will be. Thirdly, it’s plastic. This material is the hardest one to recycle. The reason why it’s so hard to recycle plastic is that there are a great many kinds of it. Lastly, it’s glass. Glass like metal and paper is fairly easy to recycle. Therefore, it’s recycled all over the world. You can just melt it down and use to make new bottles. The main problem here is that we can discover recycling chiefly in the highly developed countries. It’s rare to discover recycling (which is really working now) in many developing countries. Nevertheless, I assume recycling helps us get rid of many problems mentioned above. If both the countries which have already been using recycling actively and those which have just started continue recycling more and more materials and trying to invent new methods of recycling it will do a world of good not only to our planet but also all people living on it.