Do you realize how many things around you are plastic? This morning when you woke up to your plastic alarm clock, you jumped in the shower with a plastic curtain and used shampoo and conditioner from a plastic bottle, and you shaved with a plastic razor. As you dried your hair with a plastic blow dryer, you used a plastic hair brush, then you brushed your teeth with a plastic toothbrush. In the kitchen you might have drank from a plastic container of milk or orange juice, ate out of a plastic bowl or might have used plastic silverware. In front of you now, at your desk, you can notice your pen is plastic, your ruler is plastic and your chair is plastic. Look over at the computer. Did you realize the mouse, the keyboard, and the monitor are
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But wait, studies have shown that 85% of the population reuses plastic grocery bags for lunch sacks, wet laundry, picking up after pets and lining small trash cans. So plastic grocery bags are recycled. As far as littering is concerned, no one is going to toss their grocery bags out the window for it to get wrapped around a turtle’s neck. If the wind is blowing plastic grocery bags out of garbage bins, shouldn’t there be restrictions and fines set for the waste management companies to keep tighter locks on their garbage containers. For the argument of harming marine animals, our oceans are way too enormous for plastic grocery bags to wipe out the sea life. Plastic is not a major component of our waste stream. Plastics represent 7% of the garbage you see in photos of trash in the oceans. The harm plastic grocery bags cause against marine wildlife is exaggerated and was misquoted in 2002 when an Austrailian reporter misquoted a Canadian study from 1987. The marine deaths were caused from fishing lines and nets, not plastic grocery bags. As far as the plastic grocery bags being biodegradable, that is a good thing. If they were not biodegradable they would crumble like dirt and not hold the heavy weight of groceries and protect us of spills and contamination. The biodegradable plastic makes them less prone to tearing and easier to carry than other types of grocery
But wait, studies have shown that 85% of the population reuses plastic grocery bags for lunch sacks, wet laundry, picking up after pets and lining small trash cans. So plastic grocery bags are recycled. As far as littering is concerned, no one is going to toss their grocery bags out the window for it to get wrapped around a turtle’s neck. If the wind is blowing plastic grocery bags out of garbage bins, shouldn’t there be restrictions and fines set for the waste management companies to keep tighter locks on their garbage containers. For the argument of harming marine animals, our oceans are way too enormous for plastic grocery bags to wipe out the sea life. Plastic is not a major component of our waste stream. Plastics represent 7% of the garbage you see in photos of trash in the oceans. The harm plastic grocery bags cause against marine wildlife is exaggerated and was misquoted in 2002 when an Austrailian reporter misquoted a Canadian study from 1987. The marine deaths were caused from fishing lines and nets, not plastic grocery bags. As far as the plastic grocery bags being biodegradable, that is a good thing. If they were not biodegradable they would crumble like dirt and not hold the heavy weight of groceries and protect us of spills and contamination. The biodegradable plastic makes them less prone to tearing and easier to carry than other types of grocery