Day 4 Writing Homework
Prompt :
Write a persuasive essay (250-350 words) advocating for eliminating single-use plastics in school canteens, promoting sustainable alternatives to drive environmental change.
Your response should include:
– Clear position.
– Local-to-global context: Connect the canteen’s actions to broader environmental impacts (e.g., reducing landfill waste or protecting marine life).
– Tangible consequences: Highlight specific outcomes of adopting or ignoring sustainable practices (e.g., volume of plastic waste).
– Rhetorical techniques: Use at least two persuasive devices (e.g., rhetorical questions, metaphors, or emotive language) to engage readers.
Counter-argument: Address one opposing view (e.g., cost or convenience of plastics) and refute it with evidence or ethical reasoning.
Late submissions will not be marked.
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- Due Date : July 12, 2025
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6 thoughts on “Day 4 Writing Homework”
According to Clean Up Australia’s annual litter report in 2024, single-use plastics comprised of 81% of the total annual litter collected from Australian schools, and it is estimated that most of the waste were generated from the school canteen. Did you know that even a tiny speck of plastic can cause a huge problem to the world?
Although convenient, single-use plastics pose significant environmental and health problems. A significant amount of single-use plastic waste ends up in landfills, taking up space and potentially releasing harmful substances or breaking down into harmful microplastics. Plastic in the ocean can damage sensitive habitats and can cause marine life to be entangled in plastic debris. Microplastics ingested by marine life can also enter the human food chain. In addition, air pollution caused by single-use plastics can result in severe health problems for humans, such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
School canteens should start promoting sustainable alternatives to plastics to drive environmental change. This can involve using reusable containers, cutlery, and cups, as well as encouraging students to bring their own reusable water bottles. Canteens can also work with their suppliers to source products with minimal or no plastic packaging. Schools can also play a part by educating students and parents about the impact of plastic waste and the benefits of reducing it. Schools can even celebrate successes and highlight the positive changes being made.
By doing the above, we can reduce plastic waste in the school canteen and contribute to a healthier environment for students and the wider community.
Please see the attached PDF for the feedback.
Y4-RW_D4 – Adelasia Seng
Single-use plastic should not be used in school canteens.
Firstly, harmful microplastic can get in students’ lunch bags or food. This will cause certain effects on students’ health problems, and maybe even an operation. Also, single-use plastic is not sustainable. It will do a significant damage to the environment if we keep using it.
Secondly, schools teaches children how to protect the environment. If they, especially the canteen, use unsustainable materials like single-use plastic, then students might be confused and use the same materials.
Thirdly, single-use plastic is totally unnecessary. If we need to use plastic, we can use long lasting ones. Single-use plastic is just a waste of money. Also, schools have many different other materials that are sustainable, and some can be recycled, like tin, paper, wood and lots more.
Lastly, single-use plastic is already providing harmful impacts on wildlife. Scientists prove that 800~2400 animals die every year only because of single-use plastic. And the best way to create a start to solving this problem is through the school canteens. The schools will show the students how to protect the environment, so that when they grow up, they will continue to do so.
In conclusion, single-use plastic should not be used in school canteens.
Please see the attached PDF for the feedback.
Y4-RW_D4 – Win Huang
Should We ban plastic from canteens?
In this era of rapidly evolving single use plastic harming our planet, don’t you think the safe option is to ban them? 100,000 thousand marine animals die every year from getting entangled by plastic. These are the creatures which are soon going to be new endangered species! Where is all this plastic coming from? It is coming from us. This is why it’s imperative to eliminate single use plastic from our globe forever!
First and Foremost, we must reduce landfill waste to protect marine life! Don’t you see the big impact it has on us when we engage in such action? Plastic isn’t only harming the animals, it harms us as well. More than animals, humans accidentaly eat plastic because of it coming in fast foods. The volume of plastic entering our serene, tranquil oceans, lakes, and rives, is massive and needs to be fixed.
Finally, significant portions of plastic waste, around 91%, ends up in landfills or the ocean. Plastic pollution has a devastating impact on marine life, with millions of animals killed each year, and numerous species threatened with extinction. Plastic pollution affects a wide range of marine species, with over 60 cetacean species reported to be impacted by marine debris. Animals can become entangled in plastic, ingest it, or suffer from habitat destruction.
In the light of the above, I definetely think it’s imperative to preserve these endangered species from the monster called plastic
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Y4-RW_D4 – Ragini