What’s So Bad About Plastic Bags? Plastic bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways‚ spoil the landscape‚ and end up in landfills where they may take 1‚000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water. Plastic bags also pose a serious danger to birds and marine mammals that often mistake them for food. Thousands die each year after swallowing or choking on discarded plastic bags. Finally‚ producing plastic bags requires millions of gallons
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no to plastic bags! Plastic bags should be banned from grocery stores. I often go to the store and buy 1 or 2 items and I am given so many bags. I feel that we have become an extremely wasteful society. If we could just say no to plastic bags we would be slowing down the waste in landfills. It takes a little more effort to remember to carry reusable bags in the car but it is worth saving our environment. I am proud to say that my young daughters have said no to the plastic bag when they have
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used frequently in our daily lives‚ I believe it should be banned as a good first step in reducing the use of plastic materials. New Yorkers should strive to lessen the use of plastic by replacing plastic bags with other material alternatives‚ such as biodegradable or reusable bags. Plastic bags are very popular
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Current plastic bag use and disposal‚ both by consumers and through waste management activities‚ not only create environmental problems‚ but also reinforce the perception of a wasteful society. Plastic bags as litter create a visual pollution problem‚ and affect our aquatic wildlife. Many of the grocery store use the plastic bags as a tool to keep the things easy to carrying. Plastic bags aren’t just at the grocery store‚ there every where‚ landfills‚ the oceans and lakes‚ hanging on trees around
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older or gosh my hair was really bad back then” I would think. Nothing grabbed at me to want to remember that day. After months of letting the clutter pile up on my bookshelf I finally decided it was time to clean it out. Trash bag after trash bag full of worthless paper that was know use to me and time spent sorting through what was worth to keep and what wasn’t‚ I
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My name is Milk Bear. I am a school bag. Let me tell you about my past. Early one morning‚ I found myself hanging in a bag shop. Suddenly‚ a young girl‚ about eight years old‚ walked into the shop. Her name is Michelle. She told her mother that she needed a new school bag because her previous bag had given way. So‚ her mother asked Michelle to choose a bag that she liked. Michelle looked at the shelf and saw me. She took me down and placed me on the counter. Suddenly‚ everything turned
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Air Bag An airbag is a vehicle safety device. It is an occupant restraint consisting of a flexible envelope designed to inflate rapidly during an automobilecollision‚ to prevent occupants from striking interior objects such as the steering wheel or a window. Modern vehicles may contain multiple airbags in various side and frontal locations of the passenger seating positions‚ and sensors may deploy one or more airbags in an impact zone at variable rates based on the type and severity of
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consumers use up to 1.5 trillion plastic bags every year. In the consumers possession the plastic bags stay with them for an average of fifteen minutes before they get thrown away or released to blow down into the wind‚ down our streets‚ and into our world. In Israel the average time of holding on to a single plastic bag is twenty minutes. The use of plastic bags tally’s up to $4 million per year for retailers. One company which buys half of the used plastic bags in the United States that are available
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Autobiography of a Violet School Bag I was born in a jungle as cotton‚ white‚ formless‚ spread widely across many plants‚ with no specific purpose‚ but a world full of possibilities. Then I went through a grind (cut & stitched) in the factory‚ picked up specific form (a bag)‚ a specific color (violet)‚ and some designs too…something like a tattoo…a bright and colorful rainbow on me. People said I looked beautiful; I am now a School Bag and my purpose is to carry books and stationeries for
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10 Reasons Why Baseball Equipment Bag Wheels Is Common In USA Baseball is the sports that possess more attraction for Americans than any other sports. It is a continuous pastime in USA that mostly people play the game as children. Therefore‚ It is knows as a “national Pastime” or a “democratic game”. In fact‚ Calvin Coolidge during his era of presidency declared “Baseball is our national game!” In addition to these facts there are many other important facts that illustrate the significance of baseball
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