The knowledge to save the environment among youths in Myanmar

Myanmar youths are very weak in knowledge to save the environment and this is the main problem to save our environment. If I have to say, there has been many problems how to maintain the environment among them and I will describe how they think on maintaining the environment.

1.     The use of plastic bags among youths

Youths are more likely to use plastic bags as it is easy to use. Wherever they go they usually use plastic bags. When they buy something they usually ask for plastic bags even it is small enough for them to carry. Even when they buy tea food and hot drinks they take it plastics. They even know that plastic bags are very harmful cause it chemicals are soluble in hot food and drinks. But they never take anything to buy these things cause they have the sense that when we buy things they will pack with plastic bags and even when I give advice to reduce plastics bags and they listen to me only a few time and they don?t follow my advice.

So let see another factor.

2.     The use of one time use chopsticks

Myanmar is rich in restaurants and buffets and hotpots and almost every shop use one time use chopsticks. When we go to eat something, we can see these chopsticks almost in everywhere. To use these chopsticks we have to cut down almost all the bamboos and we have to divide these into small pieces. Then we have to wash this in chemicals and again in tap water. But if we don?t wash these clean and clear from chemicals, this can harm our health a lot. Even though having this sense, they always use these and whenever I give education on this they follow me for a short time and they again use.

3.     Packaging the glassware with plastics for one time use

This is a common way we can see in restaurants. When we go restaurants they give this service for us and it is an easy way for restaurants. They package the glassware neatly and we accept to use it. But what we forget is that these plastics can harm our environment. And cause we cannot see   how they package these things and we should no longer use these things. But  we still use these things and this will be a very difficult way to stop using this.

Well all I mentioned are things that we don?t care to stop using and this is a brief description and I will continue this on 14 July 2016. Thanks all for your attention.