Some people feel that manufacturers and supermarkets have the responsibility to reduce the amount of packaging of goods. Others argue that customers should avoid buying goods with a lot of packaging. Discuss both views and give your opinion
Packaging is an integral part of the consumer’s experience and a tool enhancing the brand awareness of companies but it has generated a significant amount of waste and pollution. While some argue that producers and retailers are accountable for reducing packing materials, others opine that this onus is on consumers who should opt for products with minimal packaging. From my point of view, it requires collaborative accountability from both enterprises and each resident.
On the one hand, manufacturers and supermarkets should take responsibility for the packaging waste they generate. First and foremost, they are the decision-makers who determine the way their products are wrapped. Indeed, to avoid damage and maximize profit, many manufacturers have been utilizing low-cost petroleum-based plastics to protect their products while they should have utilized technology innovations that allow using fewer materials, biodegradable types or recycled ones. Lush Cosmetics, a renowned UK-based beauty company, for instance, has come up with a novel formula for their eco-friendly solid shampoo which requires no containers which not only reduces packaging amount but also facilitates brand awareness among groups of environmentally conscious people. Besides, many consumers have very little awareness about the negative impacts that the excessive amounts of product packaging are having on the environment while businesses could greatly create environmentally friendly consumer consumption habits, encouraging citizens to join in cutting packaging waste. To illustrate, IKEA has designed packages that customers can reuse as model toys for children just by following the manual printed or some supermarkets give customers fabric bags for shopping instead of plastic ones.
However, I believe that to alleviate effectively excessive packaging issues, apart from firms’s responsibility, individuals also should be environmentally conscious consumers as this issue mainly stems from their shopping habits and preferences for convenience. For instance, products with several layers of wrapping or individual packaging are often associated with higher quality in Vietnam. The rise of online shopping might also be a main culprit because its shipping process requires additional packaging. If all consumers boycotted products with disposable or unnecessary packaging and favored items with sustainable packaging materials, businesses would act accordingly. Take the Highland Coffee chain in Vietnam as an example, they have switched to using bamboo straws, paper bags, and reusable cups in their stores to meet the customers’ tastes. Indeed, the end users can use their buying power to drive positive change in packaging practices.
In conclusion, there are two schools of thought that reducing packaging waste is the sole onus of producers or consumers. However, from my perspective, to effectively pursue minimal and sustainable packaging, every party involved should take the initiative and exert their influence on the others.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, but, first, however, if, so, while, apart from, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 10.4138276553 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2615.0 1615.20841683 162% => OK
No of words: 433.0 315.596192385 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.03926096998 5.12529762239 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.58497707862 2.80592935109 128% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 176.041082164 148% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600461893764 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 818.1 506.74238477 161% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.4036968588 49.4020404114 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.823529412 106.682146367 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4705882353 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05882352941 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253996102854 0.244688304435 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0800639200613 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489287406787 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145363167491 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500381961323 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.8 13.0946893788 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 20.72 50.2224549098 41% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.3001002004 147% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 18.05 12.4159519038 145% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 78.4519038076 181% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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