Yesterday, I saw some women taking the same bus with me. They are the employees of a well known cigarettes company. Some of them held transparent plastic bags with ice water inside. I know ice water is a refreshing drink in this hot day. I am sure most of the employees like to drink ice water during this hot day in September. There's nothing special or strange about the employees drinking ice water, I know you will say that, but the fact that the bus stopped for several minutes and my eyes looked outside the bus had struck my mind. Down there on the dry ground I saw lots lots of plastic bags spread out covering the ground. I took a picture of it just when the bus was about to depart.
I examined the photo that I took and realized that the plastic bags are the same kind and size and there is a straw in each bag. So, those plastics bags are.....the trash thrown away by these employees day by day, week by week....and so on. While I was busy thinking about those plastics, my eyes glanced at a yellow straw shyly emerged from a plastic holding by a woman. Oh my gosh...and then I saw one more blue straw held by another woman.
As, I was looking at those straws, suddenly another woman threw something outside.... I hurried to see what is that and as I had estimated before, it was a plastic bag with a straw inside. I was so angry and wanted to tell them about their shameful behavior, but I was too afraid that they will be angry with me. At this point, I can only say silently, then I was starting to think of what should be done to solve this problem.
I remember some years ago I heard that one of the biggest cigarettes company in Kudus, Central Java planted one billion trees in order to support Green Environment project held by the government. That is so wonderful thing to do by a company that produce things which is not environment friendly. By doing this project perhaps the company had tried to diminish their feeling of guilty for making so much smoke with their cigarettes. And the fact that the littering habit that I had just seen was done by the employees of the same cigarettes company that I am talking about seems so ironic. I am compelled to ask whether they see or not the rubbish spreading around their company. And the answer must be Yes...they have seen it. Because, the spot I am talking about is at the side of the main street. So, why don't they do something about it?? I strongly believe that the company hasn't taken care of this problem. To my mind, the company has a very strategic and important role to change this condition. it is very urgent to make their employee aware of this rubbish problem. As the employer they have powerful strength to force their employee to understand and follow the company's rule.
What I am trying to say is that it will be very helpful if the company put the littering issue in in the company's rules for their employees.
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