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Many types of recyclable waste like glass, plastic bags, cardboard,
paper, tin cans, plastic bottles and containers that we use are simply
thrown away with ordinary garbage due to non availability of an
effective waste recycling programme.
In many developed countries a separate bin is provided for gathering
waste which can be recycled and are collected weekly or every fortnight.
Such collected waste is sorted and recycled minimising damage to the
environment.
It is time that in our country also authorities take some steps to
implement a waste recycling programme. This will certainly reduce the
damage caused to the environment by throwing away these types of waste
most of which are not biodegradable.
Economic benefit to the country will also be more as it saves energy,
money and create jobs. We quite often see a lot of protests by
environmentalists spearheaded by NGOs campaigning against environmental
pollution.
Perhaps some of the resources used for such protests would be much
more productive, if public awareness campaigns are carried out on the
benefits of recycling and if such schemes are initiated.
K.G.E. – Nugegoda
Many English tutors do not really want to make their students talk in
English in their so-called ‘Spoken English’ or ‘Conversational English’
classes even if there are two many English classes mushrooming
islandwide.
Everybody knows that students are charged high rates of fees by the
tutors. But how many of these students are able to speak or utter a few
words of English? Do those ‘English masters’ perform an honest service?
As an experience teacher of English at a Government school, I have
carefully checked and found that only a very few tutors get their
learners to converse or speak a few words in English in their classes
although hundreds of ‘Spoken English classes’ are conducted in or
suburbs of the Kalutara town.
What these tuition masters do is that, nicely designed lesson notes
on attractive printed file covers are distributed among their students,
so that too many students may attend those classes. Is that what’s
called ‘teaching English’? What is the use of having a file cover unless
the students make an attempt to express themselves?
Are those students benefited by these file covers?
These attractive file covers do not help any student to learn
anything at all, in those jam-packed tuition classes.
We the Sri Lankans always go by the quantity, not by the quality.
These useless file covers and printed lesson notes of English really
do not serve any purpose.
H. L. SUNIL SHANTHA - Wadduwa Central
College, Kalutara
I am a daily traveller to work from Boralesgamuwa to Colombo 2 in an
office van. As I have seen there is an increase of wanton wastage of
street lights burning precious power.
I have photographed some of these lamp posts on February 19 so that
some concerned person would take up this matter with the authority who
is trying to increase the electricity bills.
What a callous attitude the very organisations who talk of
development is doing in the name of developing the country?
The street lamps that are shown here are only a few but sometimes on
the Baseline Road rows and rows of lamps are alight in the morning at
7.00 a.m. when we travel to work.
Why should we the innocent consumers pay extra when this wastage is
taking place ?
CONCERNED CITIZEN
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