about plastic bags and whether they should be banned. As you may know‚ plastic bags are one of the main sources of rubbish that end up polluting our rivers and oceans. In fact‚ the problem has become so immense that a huge island of rubbish containing plastic bags and other items has formed in the middle of the Northern Pacific Ocean. The area polluted by this rubbish is so vast that it covers an area greater than the size of Australia. So should plastic bags be banned? Plastic bags are a
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Plastic Bags Should Be Banned Thesis: Today when we go shopping‚ we will see a lot of people carrying their shopping bags made of plastic. Plastic bags are really convenient for all of us to carry things we have bought. In contrast‚ there are many disadvantages of using plastic bags. If you know that plastic bags have negative impacts for our environment‚ I am sure that reducing the use of plastic bags will be happened soon. Con: they are really convenient for all of us to carry
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resources--"Every time we use a new plastic bag they go and get more petroleum from the Middle East and bring it over in tankers‚". "We are extracting and destroying the Earth to use a plastic bag for 10 minutes.". They harm wildlife and marine life-plastic bags are now in all places in our environment‚ and animals‚ on land and water‚ are getting choked‚ strangled and killed by them. They create litter-Aside from polluting beaches and waterways‚ plastic bags for example in China plastic bags are blowing around streets
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Plastics Bags- A Devil To Be Banned Plastic bags are normally given to customers by vendors when buying. It is a very convenient method for transporting goods. Moreover‚ it is highly popular to the customers and retailers because of its light weight. But‚ ultimately this much usage of the plastic bags leads to the many serious problems. Plastic bags should be banned in Canada because it have a critical environment problems‚ health problems and also because of its cost of production and recycling
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Science Opinions Should plastic bags be banned from grocery stores? YES 51%of members Voice Your Opinion * My New Year’s Resolution is to say 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
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chemical reactions. Almost all plastics are made from petroleum‚ except a few experimental resins derived from corn and other organic substances. Plastic has many properties which have made it a raw material of choice for manufacturing of plastic bags and packing materials. Cost of production‚ light weight‚ strength‚ easy process of manufacture‚ and availability are some of the properties. There is nothing wrong with plastic as a material. Man has simply not put the plastic to the right use/ or using
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Non-biodegradable They litter our streets Plastic bags suffocate and kill Wildlife concerns Spread Awareness Environment destroyement Paper It messes up future with too much plastic bags and ends ups that we might have to leave earth. All the No points No need to ban‚ add a tax Used as a marketing ploy Freedom of choice people forget their re-useable bags Causes expense to consumers in a time of recession causes loss of jobs People can and do recycle plastic bags the environmental war needs to
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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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Plastic can be defined as: any group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft‚ which will later harden. Plastic has been around for more than 150 years. In 1839 Charles Goodyear accidently discovered the process of vulcanization‚ the process of making rubber more durable‚ which evolved into the creation of plastics later on. In 1846‚ Swiss chemist Charles Schonbein discovered how to produce the plastic polymer known as celluloid. In 1909‚ chemist Leo Baekeland created
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Millions of disposable plastic bags are used and discarded in Washington each year. A beached grey whale was found in West Seattle in 2010 with 20 plastic bags in its stomach. Small pieces of plastic can absorb toxic pollutants like DDT and PCB. Scientists have found that fish are ingesting these toxins when they ingest plastic‚ concentrating the chemicals in the food chain. There is a good chance that we also absorb these pollutants when we eat fish. The good news is‚ Washingtonians are taking
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