Plastic Uses : The Use Of Plastics

Answering this question, Adams B. Summers asserts that despite public knowledge, plastic bags are not, in fact, harmful and dangerous and shouldn't be banned. He conveys this through citing facts and research analysis, appealing to audience's logic, and utilizing word choice and vivid language.

According to Ocean Crusaders, there is over 100,000 marine animals that die each year because of plastic bags. “Beaked whale species in particular are highly susceptible to swallowing plastic bags as they are believed to strongly resemble their target prey, squid,” Britannica Advocacy for Animals states. Animals do not know what a plastic bag is, and often mistaken them for food. When an animal ingests a plastic bag, the plastic bag will be stuck in the gut for a very long time, sometimes more than 1000 years! Also, food would not be able to go through the intestines anymore and would probable cause the animal to die slowly. Since a plastic bag takes around 1000 years to completely decompose, it means that by the time the animal decomposes, the plastic bag is still not fully decomposed and will be back in the ocean, ready to kill another animal. As you can tell, plastic bags are very harmful to animals, especially marine animals. When plastic bags are banned, there is no chance of it going into the ocean, and many animals will be saved.

Do you know that it will take 1000 years for a plastic bag to decompose? Our world is the most friendly planet for human beings and every other living thing. We should never take our planet for granted because there is no other like this one and in order for us to keep our planet safe and sound, we should get rid of plastic bags. The other most effective way to keep our planet safe is to recycle every plastic bottle that we used. Every plastic product should not be thrown to the garbage because plastic bottles will take several decades to decompose in soil.

Plastic bags begin as crude oil, natural gases, or other petrochemical derivatives. By some estimates almost 12 million barrels of petroleum oil are used to make 100 billion plastic bags. One solution is to stop using plastic bags. Plastic bag bans are spreading across the country with over 100 community bag bans across 16 states. Hawaii right now is the only state in the nation to adopt a full statewide ban. Internationally,19 countries from Bangladesh to Ireland have passed bans. Reducing plastic bag usage and shoppers to use reusable bags will help decrease our demand for a new fossil fuel and reduce our environmental impact. As a nation we need to begin to move away from the concepts of single use and waste. Plastic is made from oil.

The two pie charts compare the respective categories of US household garbage in 1990 and 2005. Overall, most of household garbage was the paper in both years while the percentage of plastics in 2005 rose by 10% compared to in 1990.

In response to the growth of our world indiscriminate use of plastic bags, Summers (2013) has stated that the plastic bad is harmful for people and environment in his article “Bag ban bad for freedom and environment”. He uses some facts, examples, statistical data and rhetorical question. Also, he tried to make emotionally readers when he explained how many jobs can be lost because of the bill and how much waste is caused by plastic bags to compare with paper.

- Hypothesis: If you cut a 5 mm piece of plastic dry-cleaning bag, a plastic kitchen wrap, a plastic sandwich bag, and a plastic grocery bag, and you added weights (2 pounds) to stretch the plastics, then the plastics will 90% stretch longer than their original 4 mm length.

Plastic bags are convenient for carrying gorceries, packing school lunches, and even picking up pet waste. But, they are also harmful to our environment. I think that we should get rid of plastic bags. For one it will help the evironment. For two it will be healther for the animals in the sea. For three it will healther for people and land animals.

characteristics and membership in certain social groups (John and Saks, 2014). Even though Gretchen thinks Regina is mean, she cannot exit the group due to the huge loss of her social identification and its merits. Being part of The Plastics mean that they are treated like celebrities on their school, and it also provides a sense of belonging, safety, and self-enhancement to the individual (Dick, Grojean, et al.)

What do you see when you drive on the highway, scenery, funny road-signs and garbage, plastic bags being the most common. Plastic bags are a serious problem for our country and is a problem that is getting worse. This is why states must ban the plastic bag, and instead use paper or reusable bags. Plastic bags are timely and costly, bad for the environment and wildlife, and costs states, cities, counties and taxpayers thousands of dollars.

According to greentumble.com, the author states that “Plastic bags and their associated plastic pieces are often mistaken for food by … marine life like fish and sea turtles.” This shows that any sea animal could be the next victim for the vicious plastic bag. According to conserve-energy-future.com, the author states that, “What happens when they consume these plastic materials is that their digestive system gets congested leading to the development of health infections and death when there is suffocation.” This shows that the effect of these plastic bags on the helpless marine life could get ugly very fast. According to the third and final article, ecowatch.com, the author states that “One in three leatherback sea turtles have plastic in their stomach, most often a plastic bag, based on a study of over 370 autopsies.” This shows that the plastic bags are on the attack and are searching for their victims at rapid speed. Plastic bags should be banned because they are ruthlessly damaging innocent creatures that mean no harm to

As the United States deals with the overwhelming amounts of waste building up, Nitin et al explain that “plastics take anywhere from 15 to 1000 years to biodegrade” once they are discarded (Nitin). Changes in recycling methods can no longer keep up with the exorbitant amount of waste produced in the United States. This is why some states choose to take their initiative one step further by placing either fees or a ban on the use of plastic bags. Due to the enormous waste the United States produces on a daily basis and the negative outcomes of this trash including adverse health effects, harmful impacts on nature, and the exponential piling of trash in landfills, the US government should ban plastic bags.

Along with carrying groceries, plastic bags carry environmental problems; banning them is necessary. Plastic bags that are less than 50 microns thick (excluding plastic bags used for hygienic reasons) should be banned. First of all, plastic bags contribute to pollution an extortionate amount. In fact, over 40,000 plastic bags were found at Canadian shorelines in the past year. This number could be heavily reduced if plastic bags were banned. Plastic bags have been found in tree lines and can clog up sewers and cause flooding. If plastic bags weren’t so readily available, they wouldn’t be littering streets and getting caught up in trees. Plastic bag pollution is definitely not limited to land. All over the world, plastic bags have ended up in oceans, lakes, and rivers. Fish are meant for oceans, yet studies show that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Canadian plastic bags have been found all the way in Scotland. This means Canada’s plastic bag problem is not limited to its territorial boundaries. Plastic bag pollution is very high because of the amount of plastic bags Canadians use. Canadians use 15 billion plastic bags a year, enough to circle the earth over 55 times! Because Canadians use so many plastic bags and don't recycle them, pollution has become a greater problem.

Picture this: A person goes out to the store to purchase a couple of necessities. Those necessities then get put into a plastic bag as per usual. They get home and take everything out of the bag. They then trash the bag because it is no longer needed. The plastic bag, then ends up in some landfill where it is blown away in the middle of the ocean. The plastic bag then goes on to danger the marine animals. Plastic bags should be banned from stores because there are other ways people can carry their things, they are dangerous to marine animals, and cause pollution.

The topic of banning the bag has been talked about across Australia for a while now as our waters become more and more polluted and our streets dirtier. However people are still clinging onto these plastic bags, fighting for them, even though they won’t look at the damage they’re causing. Plastic bags affect the environment the most. That includes ours and the many animals in the area. These plastic bags end up in our drains or floating around carparks, even ending up in our waters and lodged in the throats of poor turtles and birds. Plastic bags fill our landfill and take years to decompose meaning that we are producing and distributing more rubbish than we can get rid of. There is nothing to be proud of using plastic bags and it’s about time we, the nation agree on banning the bag.