The Use of Disposable Products (ECOYA)

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  • Problems with Disposable Products
Using disposable products will result in a waste of resources. Most of the raw materials used to produce products are not all buried indefinitely. So we have to save as many of these resources as possible, but if we use a lot of disposable products, we'll waste our resources by using resources that we don't need to use. If disposable products are used, that's how much waste is generated. It takes a lot of money and energy to dispose of these wastes, and it also causes a lot of environmental pollution. In particular, disposable products use a lot of raw materials wrapped in plastic rather than eco-friendly materials, which in particular cost a lot of energy and money to process, and pollutants also occur in the process. Also, disposable products have a lower rate of treatment than products that are generally used for a long time because of their convenience. (You can feel that most of the garbage on the street is easy to carry, such as plastic bottles, cans, and paper cups, and that most of the trash is disposable). If these disposable products are left untreated in incineration, landfill, or recycling, pollutants will be generated by themselves.

  • the effects on our bodies

One of the most common human harmful substances released from various disposable cans and plastic containers is 'environmental hormones'. Environmental hormones are hormones that are secreted by non-body substances, which can disrupt the endocrine system. The effects of environmental hormones emitted from most disposable products on the human body are typically negative effects on the genital system, causing cancer, and large impacts on fetuses and children. It is also negative for brain development and has characteristics that weaken the nervous system and the immune system.
  • Problem
As factory-type industrial patterns, mass production, and mass consumption-oriented social structures dominate the world, the use of disposable products inevitably increases. The birth and use of disposable products have been a life in a society that aims for convenience and speed. However, this pursuit of convenience has led to problems with waste disposal, and furthermore to the widespread breakdown of the global ecological balance of life and extinction. The time to produce and use disposable products takes place in a short period of time, but the time to return to Earth's nature and play its role is tens and hundreds of times longer, so we can even predict the problem of putting pressure on the Earth's self-purification capacity and eventually leading to an environment in which life is not suitable for living.

  • Solution
Individuals will also need to refrain from using disposable products, but fundamentally, they will need to be reorganized into an industrial structure that can reduce the use of disposable products and develop a process to produce goods that do not use disposable products. It will also increase the time available for disposable products produced by recycling and reuse policies.

  • personal experience

In fact, disposable products are indispensable in modern society. The biggest example is that just by looking at the Coronavirus, everyone creates one mask waste a day. But things that are not directly related to our lives, such as practice books for solving math problems and styrofoam that come when we order delivery, can be replaced by other things. My school encourages students to use electronic notebooks. (Of course, it's been more than four months since I failed to go to school.) (Note, our school is not an international school attended by Chinese people, but an international school attended by Koreans.) (In Chinese schools, teachers sometimes give students 10 sheets of paper on both sides.) It also recommends that students carry private cups without putting paper cups next to school water purifiers. School cafeterias provide free paper straws to students, and additional textbooks used in schools are sent by electromagnetic waves, making it easier for students to study on laptops or tablets.


This week, South Korea held a parliamentary election in which 66.2 percent of its 50 million people voted. A total of 37 political parties participated in the election. There were so many different parties. In addition to the two large parties, there were various kinds of parties, such as the Christian Party, the party supporting the former president, and the Workers' Party. What was surprising was that there was also a party called the Green Party. Of course, not all of their pledges were for the environment, but there was at least one about waste. Fortunately, the pledge made by a lawmaker elected in Yongsan-gu, where I live, was to build a large green park and open it to the residents for free. Of course, he is still a high school student at a young age who cannot even vote in Korea, but I think it's a real relief that there are a few voices calling for protecting the environment in the parliamentary elections to elect a representative of the country.

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