Plastic is a new foundation for human life: food comes packaged in plastic, sports are played on grass made out of plastic, supplies are wrapped in plastic, and accessories are encased in plastic. Plastic also has a way of getting into trees, bushes, oceans, animals, and makes the environment look awful. As of watching our backyards and oceans get filled with plastic bags, we have realized the trouble plastic causes for the environment. San Francisco, California, Laredo, and Eagle Pass have banned plastic bags, should the whole United States ban plastic bags in order to keep the environment safe and green? In 1965 a U.S. patent got an idea to call the plastic bag, “The T-shirt plastic bag” (Laskow). The plastic bag was never that popular during the 1960, but later on it slowly started to excel in the economy. Sarah Laskow explains how the plastic bags were in the economy:
From the 1960s on, the company had pursued an aggressive policy on polyethylene packaging patents and by 1977 was producing its own bags. Plastic grocery bags were introduced in America in 1979; Kroger and Safeway had picked them up in 1982. But relatively few stores were using them. In 1985, the Society of …show more content…
The plastic bag ban got approved with a 67 passed with 52 percent of the vote (State). The ban was supposed to take effect on July 1, 2015, but a referendum forced the issues onto the ballot for November 2016 (State). A lot of people disagreed with the ban, they didn’t like the fact they had to pay 10 cents for a bag, and some people even told the employees they were never going to come to this store to shop. Very little disagreed with the plastic bag ban, but a greater amount agreed with the ban. For the ones who agreed, they believed it was a positive thing; “the bags get loose and blow around. We’re kind of slobs. We don’t want to pick up anything”
From the 1960s on, the company had pursued an aggressive policy on polyethylene packaging patents and by 1977 was producing its own bags. Plastic grocery bags were introduced in America in 1979; Kroger and Safeway had picked them up in 1982. But relatively few stores were using them. In 1985, the Society of …show more content…
The plastic bag ban got approved with a 67 passed with 52 percent of the vote (State). The ban was supposed to take effect on July 1, 2015, but a referendum forced the issues onto the ballot for November 2016 (State). A lot of people disagreed with the ban, they didn’t like the fact they had to pay 10 cents for a bag, and some people even told the employees they were never going to come to this store to shop. Very little disagreed with the plastic bag ban, but a greater amount agreed with the ban. For the ones who agreed, they believed it was a positive thing; “the bags get loose and blow around. We’re kind of slobs. We don’t want to pick up anything”