In 2012, Americans alone produced over 250 million tons of garbage. One large component of this waste consisted of oil based plastic bags, which are utilized excessively by grocers, restaurants, and stores nationwide. In order to reduce this source of waste, many countries are banning plastic bags or taxing customers for their use. Utilizing at least two scholarly sources, discuss at least two environmental problems caused by such extensive plastic bag use? If you were in charge what plan might you propose to reduce or eliminate their use? Discuss the economic impacts of implementing your plan versus the financial impacts of making no change in our current use.…
In Katherine Mangu-Ward’s article, “Plastic Bags are Good for You” she argues that plastic bags are better than paper bags because they’re cheaper for stores to distribute, they can hold items that are twice its own weight, and they can be used for other household necessities. Mangu-Ward makes reasonable points and provides a lot of information in her article, but she does not have reliable sources that supports her claims. Also she does not cite the sources she is getting her information from. The organization of her article is not successful, and the language she uses throughout the article is not effective.…
BAN THE BAG BEFORE ITS TOO LATE” is an article that was published in the Daily Chronicle on the 27th of May 2008. The article stresses the negative impact that plastic bags are having on the Australian Environment and that the Government needs to make an immediate change. The article is targeted towards the general public, particularly those who have an interest in the environment, animals and battling pollution.…
Single-use plastic shopping bags are usually distributed (for free) to customers by stores when purchasing goods. It is a popular method that is practiced in many countries for being a strong, cheap, and hygienic way of transporting items. Lightweight bags are commonly made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic.[1]…
Conclusion: we have known that after all plastic bags are used. They will be bad wastes of the world. So, we can do a little work to avoid plastic as much as possible in order to keep nutritious food source, stop global warming and avoid being criminals like using fabric bags instead of plastic bags.…
Plastic bags are very common in this modern world and have been used widely in our daily life especially in shopping purposes. Due to its highly convenient, cheap and strong features, plastic bags appeal to many people either customers or the seller as the most effective way in delivering goods (such as foods) from the store to home (Kinnon, 2008). Although plastic bags are very convenient to use, there are several drawbacks that come from the usage of it mainly towards the environment and social aspect and this is getting worsen with the overuse of it. From this, plastic bags are being questioned whether the usage of it should…
Some people believe that plastic bags are recyclable , when in reality they are not 100% decomposable. Plastic bags are harmful for the environment . For example “plastic bags are made up of oil, and they are everywhere”(malik). Plastic bags are everywhere, they are thrown into the streets and they go into drainage pipes which then end up into oceans (Malik).…
Many of our oceans are polluted with plastic every day. Plastics pollute the water; it takes four hundred and fifty years for plastic to decompose in the water. Also, many companies use plastic and people throw it into the waterways without knowing the consequences of it. Because water can float and be carried by the wind, it can cause unsuspecting harm to creatures hundreds of feet from where it was originally dumped. Such plastic waste includes bags, bottles, cups, and utensils. Plastic is literally around us all day long from the plastic framed computers to the plastic mechanical pencils. Plastic is an epidemic.…
We should stop the use of the plastic bags as much as possible. The main reason for banning the use of plastic bags unpaid by the user is to protect our environment. The plastic bags do much harm to our environment. The population calls the pollution produced by the plastic bags “the white pollution”. Not only do the plastic bags do harm to our generation, but also their harm will exist for several generations, because the soil cannot degrade the plastic bags; in other words, the plastic bags are not degradable and their harm cannot be absorbed by our dear soil. They cannot be processed scientifically and properly, for example, by burying them.…
In the 21st century, people have become their own killers. From countryside to the cities, the use of plastic materials has greatly increased. In the grocery stores, tons of products are packaged using plastic materials. About 30 years ago, in countries like Uganda, there were no plastic bags used for packaging and carrying items. Items in the shops were packed in biodegradable paper bags. In the markets, people used local materials like banana leaves and fibers, and sorghum leaves for carrying and packaging items. The shoppers carried with them baskets made of bamboo trees to the market to shop items in. When these materials got worn out or torn, the owners would throw them in the gardens to decompose and provide manure for the health growth of crops.…
Plastic bags are a relatively permanent fixture on the environment, and through irresponsible disposal practices, they have wreaked enormous havoc on the planet’s natural balance. They are made from non-renewable resources and therefore do not biodegrade. As such, disposal has become an environmentalist’s nightmare- there simply isn’t enough space in the landfills for them (that is, providing they get to the landfills in the first place!); and only a fraction of them get recycled (Warner, 2010). Because of their lightweight nature, bags blow away easily. Plastic bags are an eyesore on…
A plastic bag is used for 5minutes on average but requires more than a thousand years for it to decompose (Sharma,2008). After decomposition, the tiny particles continue to contaminate our water sources and threaten wildlife (West, n.d.). Yet, the global usage of plastic bags hits an unprecedented annual rate of 1 trillion (Facts,n.d.), with Singapore contributing 3 billion in 2011(Tay,2012). Hence, it is vital that we pay more attention to our environment by reducing this excessive usage. This paper seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of plastic bags levy in Singapore, how to implement it and other alternatives to resolve excessive plastic bags usage.…
overuse of plastic causes a serious pollution problem because it collects in the ocean and on land, is consumed by oceanic life, and deposits onto beaches worldwide.…
From the mid-1980s onwards, plastic bags became common for carrying daily groceries from the store to vehicles and homes throughout the developed world. As plastic bags increasingly replaced paper bags, and as other plastic materials and products replaced glass, metal, stone, timber and other materials, a packaging materials war erupted, with plastic shopping bags at the center of highly publicized disputes. Although few peer-reviewed studies or government surveys have provided estimates for global plastic bag use, environmental activists estimate that between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags are used each year worldwide.…
At moments, individual be compelled to do offerings also examine your best to destroy mutual plans that enriched segment your everyday sustenance. Even though Plastics seem prime factor to a daily living, from parquet and every day’s goods to food package, plastic is completely over the place. Despite, there are a plenty of techniques I decide to eliminate plastic use for the last three days. Escaping treated pre-packaged foods, taking re-usable shopping bags to market, avoiding the use of water bottles nonetheless, without severe methods it appears can be practically impossible to get rid of this non-ecological substance from ones live for good. Not all plastics has been equally use, so if we are picking and choosing plastics to rid from your life, start with the following steps.…