现如今，我们在生产越来越多的垃圾。你觉得原因是什么？政府能做什么来减少垃圾生产？
Nowadays we are producing more and more rubbish. Why do you think this is happening? What can governments do to help reduce the amount of rubbish produced?

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Nowadays we are producing more and more rubbish, which can be divided as visible and invisible one, the former includes solid rubbish, liquid rubbish and gas rubbish, and the latter includes noisy rubbish, electronic rubbish and so on. People's production activity and daily life are the major two sources of these various rubbishes.

More rubbish is produced as the variety and quantity of products increase rapidly. In order to meet the diversified demand of consumers, firms persist in creating new products, which require more resources and generate more rubbish. Such as the production of cell phone rises the industrial solid waste. Besides, as the amount of products goes up, more rubbish increase. Such as the waster water increases when more iron is produced for build more skyscrapers and houses.

The boost of people living is also an origin of more rubbish. Since most of consumption of goods and services generates waste, more goods and services we consumed, more living waste there is. It is easy to find lots of examples. Such as we now drive car more, so we have to bear more waste gas. Nearly every time we go shopping, we produce some unsolvable plastic waste.

Nowadays many cities are surrounded by rubbish, so rubbish has become an environmental and social problem. The government should take some actions to solve this problem. I suggest that the government do something in the following aspects.

Firstly, encourage the producer to protect environment and penalize the firms who generate too much waste. The government can reduce the taxes or subsidies the firms those produce no or little waste, while impose high tax to the firm whose outputs pollute the environment much. This policy will encourage firms to reduce waste.

Secondly, restrict people’s excessive consumption and provoke rational consumption. Government can levy higher consumption tax to those consumers whose consumption generates more waste, such the car driver.

Thirdly, limit the use of plastic bags. Plastic bags are unsolvable, so it is prevailing rubbish. Government can induce people to use more clothes bags which are reusable when they go shopping. It can also ask the supermarket to charge for the plastic bags, which will increase the cost of use these goods.

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