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- Plastic bags are bad for the environment because with all the growing plastic bags (which are not biodegradable) blowing around, anything can ingest it.
- Animals and everything. also the materials to make plastic bags contribute to the global emissions.
- Plastic degradation at sea takes between 45-1000 years.
- Usually though, plastic bags don't biodegrade. They photo-degrade. Which means they break up into smaller pieces of plastic until eventually becoming plastics dusts.
- Plastic which ends up in the sea (through garbage dumps at seaside, river flow etc) winds up becoming food for marine life that mistake it for food especially of the jellyfish variety.
- Plastics bags have been found in the stomachs of endangered animals including the leatherback turtles, harbour porpoises and black footed albatross. Ingestion (swallowing) of plastic bags can result in blockages, internal infections, starvation and death.
- These occur in deserts as well (garbage dumpsites in deserts) where camels and other desert wildlife have been found dead with plastic ingestion.
- If animals don't die from plastic ingestion, they pollute the food chain instead. After all, we are the ones eating fish and meat.
- Moreover, it takes about 430,000 gallons of oil to produce 100 million non-degradable plastic bags. And we use 4 trillion to 5 trillion plastic bags worldwide annually. That's using up oil sources without recycling them.
- Recycling cost of plastic bags: it takes 250 bags to make 1 kilo of plastic - making recycling economically unviable. Furthermore, plastic is made of recycled materials, making them difficult to be further recycled. Burning plastic results in air pollution and toxic ash.
Paper bags are not as bad for the environment as plastic bags are. Paper is usually made of the fibrous substance of trees, which can eventually return to the natural system that the material came from. Plastic is taken from materials of the earth and then engineered to a substance that the natural world can't absorb. The bigger problem for the environment is people, actually the huge number of them and the amount of goods of any kind that we produce and consume.
To sum it up, the bad thing about paper bags in the manufacturing process it takes to supply the worlds need for them.
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What are the causes of recycling?
It helps the environment. For e.g we could recycle paper into a paper bag and many other things can be recycled so atop using plastic bags.
What scenario can lead to pest infestation?
Storing recyclables in paper bags by the back door
What is the meaning of to go mad and tear brown paper?
Brown paper was originally used on old war veterans. Doctors believed that these vets would mistake the brown paper for brown paper bags containing O.E. These bags, of course, did not actually contain O.E. and the vets soon discovered this after looking inside the bags. The absence of "good ol' E", as they called it, infuriated the old vets and they grew crazy. They began ripping their bags apart and chewing on dogs while they yelled "Haluqua Kalay!!!", meaning "spring water of Kalay!!!" Hence, the phrase- 'to go mad and tear brown paper' sincerly sackman Jones DLUX
What are 5 things that are translucent?
Wax paper, Tissue paper, screen doors,and lampshades. :)(:
What were some good and bad things about the atomic bomb technology wise?
the good things were. they tested out a neucleur wepeon and the bad things are killed loads of people the good things were. they tested out a neucleur wepeon and the bad things are killed loads of people
What properties of paper make it suitable for each use?
some of the things that could be used for paper is,setain towels,clothes like, pants and shirts.Also could be for bags like paper bags.
How are paper lunch bags made?
paper and bags duuu
Where did bags come from?
bags - I am assuming your meaning bags in which to carry things in there are paper, plastic and now the environmental friendly cloth bags. Paper bags are created by using trees - using the pulp in which bags are made from. Paper bags can be recycled. Plastic bags are typically made from oil by-products. Plastic bags can be recycled by it is process is hard. Biodegradeable plastic bags which are not made from petroleum products but derived from our food sources. Cloth bags made from cloth and can be washed and reused. Saving energy and our resources.
What are good things about paper bags?
* Paper bags are biodegradable. * They can also be recycled. * They are fairly lightweight compared to boxes and cans, so are cheaper to transport. * they make it easier to carry quantities of items
How do you keep animals out of trash bins?
Kraft paper bags can definitely be used as gift bags! If they are just plain bags you can decorate them with fun things such as markers, ribbon, and bows!
seed paper bags?
handmade plantable seed paper bags
How can you reuse grocery plastic and paper grocery bags?
Plastic: you could use it as a lunch sack or to carry things in Paper: recycle.
How are paper bags made?
by paper!
How the word paper bag came to be what they are today?
bags used to be made out of paper and glue. now, we call them paper bags because we categorize them in that family of bags.
Why should you encourage the use of paper bags?
paper bags are eco friendly to nature while plastic bags arent
What are some advantages using paper bags?
it is paper bags rip really easy
What are some advantages of using paper bags?
it is paper bags rip really easy
