Plastic Bags Affecting Low Income Families

Did you know that plastic bags are contained with recyclable materials. Paper bags are hurting low income families and cause us to use more of our non-renewable resources. It´s affects the low income family because maybe they're on a budget and can’t afford to go over it. Also it affects us because we are running out of nonrenewable resources. This is a problem because low income families are trying to feed their family on a budget. It will take more nonrenewable resources and after a few years , it will be gone. We won't be able to get it back if we ban or have a fee on plastic bags.There shouldn’t be a fee on plastic bags. Plastic bags are less harm to the environment than paper bags. Plastic bags make up a very small percent of the municipal …show more content…
According to Reason.org ,Skaidra smith-heisters, April/17/08.”Paper requires a great deal of energy and 15,100 barrels of oil”. What Skaidra Smith-Heisters is saying is that paper bags need more non-renewable resources to make because it will take barrels of oil to make paper bags. Oil is a non-renewable resource and we are running out of it. If we don’t have a ban or a fee on plastic bags, we wouldn’t use all of our non-renewable resource . Paper bags need more oil and energy to be made. It takes a lot to make paper bags than plastic. Now, some might argue that plastic bags hurt the environment. But the argument that plastic bags are more environmentally friendly than paper bags because plastic bags require less energy and water to make is still true because plastic bags won't need barrels and barrels of non-renewable to make, but paper bags does need a lot of non-renewable resource to be made. The key point is that plastic bags are not hurting the environment. Paper bags are the one hurting the environment,by using a great amount of oil that is a nonrenewable resource and hurting the environment …show more content…
As Lee Califf, Executive director American Progressive Bag Alliance, UpFront Magazine, 2016, has made it clear, ”Plastic bags make up a tiny portion less than 0.3 percent of the U.S municipals solid waste stream”. Points is that plastic bags make up a tiny percent of waste, so it is not an issue to us. The evidence proves the claim because 0.3 is a tiny percent, and plastic bags make up that 0.3%. Itś not a big issue to worry about because it makes a tiny portion of the waste. Of course, it is possible to disagree with the view that plastic bags make up a small percent of the municipal waste stream at 1% and it is not a significant litter issue and instead argue that they don not make up a tiny percent of waste. However, the weight of the evidence is on the other side. What must be remembered is that plastic bags make up 0.3% of the U.S waste stream, so it doesn't matter if plastic bags are in the waste stream. It won't make a big deal in America. That tiny number doesn´t mean anything in the U.S municipal waste stream. The key point is that plastic bags is not a huge waste problem, it is not causing problems in the waste