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The document discusses removing plastic cups from Fujairah Women's College to reduce environmental impact. It provides three main reasons for removing cups: 1) Producing and disposing of plastic cups harms the environment by creating greenhouse gases and polluting oceans; 2) Scattered cups around campus create a negative impression and cost money to replace; 3) Students can easily bring reusable water bottles instead without major inconvenience. Removing cups is a small step the college can take towards more sustainable practices.

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The document discusses removing plastic cups from Fujairah Women's College to reduce environmental impact. It provides three main reasons for removing cups: 1) Producing and disposing of plastic cups harms the environment by creating greenhouse gases and polluting oceans; 2) Scattered cups around campus create a negative impression and cost money to replace; 3) Students can easily bring reusable water bottles instead without major inconvenience. Removing cups is a small step the college can take towards more sustainable practices.

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TOPIC: Where are all the cups?

The environmental issues in today’s world are growing more serious by the day.
As a result, it is increasingly important for the schools and colleges to teach good
environmental habits. Have you ever seen a student or teacher take a sip of
water then throw the plastic cup away? This is not a good habit. Here at Fujairah
Women’s College, I think we must start taking action to lesson our impacts on the
environment. One way is to stop making plastic cups available to the students.

One main reason is that using plastic cups is bad for the environment. Firstly,
making the cups creates dangerous green house gases. For each cup, energy is
required to both create the cup and transport the cup from the factory to the
college. The use of electricity to make the cups and the gasoline to move it’ all
come from oil, which is the number one contributor to green house gasses.
Green house gasses cause global warming. Secondly, as we can see, the cups are
often not placed properly in the bin and they end up blown into the ocean. This is
a serious problem because as the plastic slowly breaks down into small particles,
it makes its way into the fish have too much plastic in them, they will surely die.

It is also clear that getting rid of the plastic cups will be good for the college.
Firstly, as state earlier, the cups are not thrown in the bin properly and this
creates a negative impression for people who visit the college. For example, if
you look in the empty classrooms in the late afternoon, the cups are scattered
the collage – on the floors, desks and hallways. This does not give the college a
good a god image with the public, who often come to the college in the evening
for classes. Secondly, not having cups available will save money for the college.
Simply put, the college will not have to buy the thousands of cups used each
semester; this money can be used to buy books for the library or used to go on
some fieldtrips instead.
Many may argue that it is unfair to get rid of the cups. After all, people need to
drink water, right? I understand this point of view. However, instead of using
the cups the students can bring their own water bottles, which cost very little.
The inconvenience of the water bottles far outweighs the negative effects on
the environment. Others may argue the getting rid of the cups might have a
negative impact on the economy. I can see that this is a concern, for everybody
needs a job. We must, however, as a country look towards a sustainable job
creation. This means that we need to always seek ways to create jobs that are
eco- friendly, like making solar panels or the materials to use wind energy.
Certainly, if we invest in earth-friendly jobs, we will all be better off in the
future.

Finally, it is clear the cups must go at Fujairah Women’s College. To use the cups
is an old concept that may have been acceptable in the 70’ s, 80’ s and 90’ s but
not anymore. We must change our ways, and starting with the cups here at the
college is certainly a reasonable start.

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