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根据国务院发布的“限塑令”，自2008年6月1日起，在所有超市、商场实行塑料购物袋有偿使用制度，超市、商场一律不得免费提供塑料购物袋。请你写一篇英语短文，要求包括以下内容： 　　现状：目前中国每天消费近30亿个塑料袋，造成了严重的资源浪费和环境污染； 　　限塑令的意义：减少塑料袋使用量，提高公众的环保意识； 　　提倡：重拎布袋子，重提菜篮子。 　　参考词汇：禁令ban意识awareness提倡advocate 　　参考范文 　　The problem of “white pollution” caused by used plastic is becoming increasingly serious, in which plastic shopping bags play an important role. In China about three billion plastic shopping bags are consumed every day, which results in a great waste of resources and heavy environmental pollution. Luckily, the government has put a nationwide ban on the use of free plastic bags, demanding that all stores and supermarkets not provide customers with free plastic bags after June 1. The rule will undoubtedly reduce the use of plastic bags and enhance the awareness of environmental protection. It is highly advocated that we should turn to cloth bags and shopping baskets from now on. 节约用水Saving Water The world is not only hungry but also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 75 % of the earths surface is covered with water. But about 97% of this huge amount is sea water, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3% -- the fresh water that comes from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources. And we cannot even use all of that because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers. Even worse, some of it has been polluted. 　　However, as things stand today, this small amount of fresh water, which is constantly being replaced by rainfall, is still enough for us. But our need for water is increasing rapidly-- almost day by day. Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid a severe worldwide water shortage later on. A limited water supply would have a bad effect on agriculture and industry. Let me give you just one small example of how necessary water is to industry. Did you know that to produce a single ton of steel, it takes about 91, 000 liters of water? 　　We all have to learn how to stop wasting our p