Plastic shopping bag

cut plastic out of my life, and so is Charleston. Why, you ask? There are so many reasons, but I'll start with this:  "By the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish." Yes, you read that correctly. Here's the scoop Plastic never, ever, ever, ever, ever goes away. It will continue to break down, but it will never fully decompose. What does this mean for our ocean? It means that more and more plastic is getting into our waterways and ocean-life is consuming the plastic, thinking

between 500 billion and a trillion plastic grocery bags are used globally each year. The WorldWatch Institute states it takes 430,000 gallons of oil to produce 100 million plastic bags – so that comes to a staggering 4,300,000 gallons or 16,277,270 liters of oil to make a trillion bags. It’s been great to see a concerted effort by many individuals, some towns and states to ban disposable plastic shopping bags; but even if you have e started to kick the disposable plastic bag habit, chances are you may still

1.0 Introduction Plastic bags are widely used as an easy medium for packaging items purchased from groceries and shopping outlets. However, the irresponsible use of plastic bags has led to a number of impacts; particularly towards the environment. The negative implications on the use of plastic bags causes conflict where there is a need for the manufacture of plastic bags, especially the usual conventional bags used for shopping, to be reduced or banned. This brings up questions on whether the roles

audience to use plastic bags less and tote bags more General Purpose: To Persuade Introduction: Have you ever wanted to help the environment, but you just didn’t know how? When we go shopping we see a lot of people carrying bags made of plastic. I must admit; plastic bags can be very convenient at times, but the use of plastic bags has it disadvantages. If you knew about the dangers of the use of plastic bags, then I'm sure you will think twice about using plastic bags and use tote bags instead. I. Plastic

Silverman (2007), states that, “Plastic constitutes 90 percent of all trash floating in the world's oceans”. Plastic has become a well-known and wanted commodity around the world. It is a commodity that is involved in most things that we use; however, we are oblivious of its bad effects. In the article “Plastic is rubbish” it shows that in 2010 alone, Americans created 31 million tons of plastic waste such as containers, appliances, and cups (n.d.). When plastic is used this excessively it acts as

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

"Carbon dioxide levels in the air are at their highest in 650,000 years" "9 out of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000." "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is TWICE the size of continental U.S. and is believed to hold almost 100 million tons of garbage" "Our planet is now in the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals" "If every country were to consume as much as the United States alone it would be as if there were a global population of 72 billion people." Have I got your

that plastic bags remain noxious even after it breaks down? Billions of plastic bags are given out daily to consumers by the stores to carry their purchases in. They are additionally light, water resistant, and easy to carry in. Most of the plastic bags are made out from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), and these bags end up in landfills or waterways after using them (Plastic Rubbish, 2008). In addition, these plastic bags are non-biodegradable. There has been a new creation of plastic bags that

People spend seconds or even hours shopping for the products they want. We go through the checkouts, scan our cards or hand money to the cashiers, to pay for our items. The items are then placed into thin, plastic to go bags with handles. Usually the store's logo is imprinted on the bag as well. We never think about the bags that our purchases are placed in, but what if the government began to tax us twenty-five cents for each and every one of those bags? Bag taxes would not be an ideal law to pass

said “The plastic bag has come to represent the collective sins of the age of plastic”. (Freinkel) B. As in many other countries, USA can institute rules to prevent or prohibit the use of plastic and paper bags. C. Plastic bags are very convenient for shoppers and store owners, but they are hard to recycle and have damaging impacts on animal, human and environmental health, sometimes even fatal. D. Plastic bags come with a high cost in manufacturing for users and the environment, they have bag consequences