Today single-use products are still very common. What are the problems associated with this? What are some possible solutions?
Sample Response
In today’s societytoday’s modern society, single-use products are still a common sight. Although they cause many problemscarry with them many problems, which vary in severity and typeboth in terms of seriousness and variety, both businesses and governments can take actionactions to eliminate them.
Because most disposable products are made from plasticderive from plastic, they pose a considerable threat. Firstly, the production of these products could eventually deplete natural resourceswill eventually lead to a depletion of natural resources. The majority of plastics are now made from natural gas or compounds related to the oil industry, which are both materials that are becoming scarcermore scarce. Secondly, the mass disposal of single-used products leads to waste accumulation and pollutionan accumulation of waste and a pollution problem. Because plastic products are non-biodegradable, when disposed to the oceans, marine animals, like fish, can swallow them and die. Plastics can also cause soil and groundwaterunderground water contamination by releasing microbeads into these environmentsthrough leaking microbeads to these environments.
Luckily, these harmful effects can be prevented by efforts made by both governments and businesses. Firstly, enterprises that use large quantities of single-use productsconsume lots of single-use products, such as restaurants and supermarketslike restaurants or supermarkets, can encourage behaviour that reduces this consumptionpromote behaviors that reduce this usage. For example, some supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City now charge customers extra when they do not bring reusable shopping bagsare now charging extra when customers do not bring their shopping bags. Some coffee shops and restaurants can also give out reward points when customers use their own bottles or utensils. Secondly, governments can take steps towards a complete ban on the usetake steps to entirely ban the use of single-use products. For example, they can start by taxing these items heavilytaxing heavily on these items. Other effective actions include imposing fines on people who excessively use these types of productsplacing a fine when people excessively use these types of products.
In conclusion, the excessive use of single-use products has many adverse effects on the environment, both in terms of resource depletion and pollution. However, there are measures that both businesses and governments can take to reduce these adverse effects.
Why this response received Band 7.5
The response answers both questions directly and supports its environmental problems and proposed remedies with relevant explanations and concrete examples. Its main limitation is uneven precision in several solution claims and expressions, particularly the vague proposal to fine excessive use; the highest-priority improvement is to explain how each policy would operate and use more natural verb-preposition combinations when describing disposal, taxation, and penalties.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The problems and solutions are both addressed in depth with relevant reasoning and examples, despite a few proposals being somewhat vague in their operation.
Specify who would be fined, what conduct would trigger the penalty, and how that measure would reduce single-use consumption.
Coherence and Cohesion
Ideas progress clearly through a well-controlled problem-and-solution structure, although repeated sequencing markers make parts of the organisation slightly mechanical.
Use topic-led transitions and logical connections between ideas instead of relying repeatedly on firstly and secondly.
Lexical Resource
The response shows good range and topic-specific vocabulary, but recurring awkward collocations reduce precision in phrases about disposal, contamination, taxation, and fines.
Practise natural combinations such as disposed of in the ocean, impose a tax on items, and fine people for excessive use.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A variety of complex sentences is generally controlled well, with occasional faulty reductions, prepositions, and duplicated structures that remain non-impeding.
Review participial clauses and verb complementation, particularly structures beginning with when disposed and verbs followed by tax or fine.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Today single-use products are still very common. What are the problems associated with this? What are some possible solutions?
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