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    Negative Effects of Plastic Bags There are several issues on earth that need immediate attention; such as global warming and green house effect‚ air pollution‚ climate change‚ and plastic pollution. Current use of plastic bags and disposal‚ both not only create environmental problems‚ but also reinforce the perception of a wasteful society. Human beings invented plastic bags for the convenience of carriers and packers. However‚ plastic bags have become one of the today’s serious issues that need

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    needs‚ but not every man’s greed.”  ― Mahatma Gandhi “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”  ― Gary Snyder “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”  ― Edward O. Wilson There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.  ~Robert Orben Don’t blow it - good planets are hard to find.  ~Quoted in Time We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  ~Thomas Fuller‚ Gnomologia‚

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    Pollution Human beings have always caused some environmental pollution. Since prehistoric times‚ people have created waste. Like garbage today‚ this waste was either burned‚ tossed into waterways‚ buried‚ or dumped aboveground. However‚ the waste of early peoples was mostly food scraps and other substances that broke down easily by natural decay processes. Prehistoric populations were also much smaller and were spread out over large areas. As a result‚ pollution was less concentrated and caused

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    COMMON SYNTHETIC PLASTICS        INRODUCTION Plastic molecules are made of long chains of repeating units called monomers. The atoms that make up a plastic’s monomers and the arrangement of the monomers within the molecule both determine many of the plastic’s properties.                                                                                                              Plastics  are one of the classification of polymers     .If a polymer is shaped into hard and tough utility articles 

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    Pollution‚ we hear it every other day at school‚ college and read about it in newspapers. So what is it? Pollution occurs when pollutants contaminate the natural surroundings; which brings about changes that affect our normal lifestyles adversely. Pollution occurs in different forms; air‚ water‚ soil‚ radioactive‚ noise‚ heat/ thermal and light. Every form of pollution has two sources of occurrence; the point and the non-point sources. The point sources are easy to identify‚ monitor and control

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    POLLUTION Pollution is the introduction of a containment into the environment. It is created to mostly by human actions‚ but can also be a result of natural disasters. Pollution has a detrimental effect on any living organism in an environment‚ making it virtually impossible to sustain life. Pollution harms the Earth’s environment and its inhabitants in many ways. The three main types of pollution are: Land Pollution‚ Air Pollution‚ and Water Pollution. AIR POLLUTION Air Pollution consists

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    Environmental pollution is the biggest menace to the human race on this planet today. The environment consists of earth‚ water‚ air‚ plants and animals. If we pollute the environment‚ the existence of man and nature will be hampered. Although most of people know that but they still destroy their own life. There a numerous kinds of environment pollution. However‚ I split it to 3 groups: water pollution‚ air pollution and soil pollution. Nowadays‚ the water of rivers and sea all over the worlds is

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    In this 21st century‚ environmental issues have been everyone’s concern. The rate of pollution in our country is getting higher and has reached a dangerous level. Therefore‚ everyone must play a role in safeguarding the environment. Yet‚ before looking up for the ways to overcome this issue‚ we must find out the types of pollutions first.               Firstly‚ one of them is air pollution. Nowadays‚ almost every family has at least a car at home. Although the car is convenient for our daily lives

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    stated that plastics are polymers and are chemically unreactive because they are held together by stable single bonds‚ which also results in their chemical stability. The stability of plastics makes them resilient to breakage making them good replacements for fragile items such as glass. Some plastics are weakened and dissolved by organic non-solvents so not all plastics can be used for the same purposes. Plastics are moulded to different shapes with some being flexible like plastic bags and others

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    Plastic Bag

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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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