The video shows that ridding of plastic bags is possible, but there needs to be a change. Plastic bags are environmental hazardous, and even though there is a simple solution they are still being used. Until we show companies that plastic bags are no longer needed or wanted companies will still use them. There are many negative environmental effects of having plastic bags. Besides being unsightly plastic bags adds to the negative effects of greenhouse gases. According to the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority, “Based on using ten lightweight plastic bags per week over a 2-year period, the greenhouse gas impact has more than three times the greenhouse gas impact of a reusable ‘green bag’”. (Environmental Impacts) This means…
Plastic bags drifting through the wind have many references in popular culture. From Katy Perry’s song fireworks to a random episode of Family Guy, somehow a mindless act of a piece of plastic being tossed around in the blowing wind has made an impression on today’s culture. Plastic bags, however, have been up for debate as to whether or not they should be used or banned. Some say they use up resources that we can not get back; release toxins into the air, water, and ground; kill animals that do…
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…
Plastic bags should be banned becaues they contribute to the pollution in our world. Plastic bags are lightweight, so they can travel long distances by water or wind. Because they are lightweight they can easily blow out of trashes and they can possibly clog waterways, damage land (10 reasons why plastic bags should be banned, 2017,October 26). Also plastic bags can contribute and make ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes (which countries have banned plastic bags?, 2003-2018). They also litter…
The following archaeological analysis, describes the examination of material remains inside a large plastic bag. The plastic bag was discovered in the old downtown district of Seattle, Washington on April 16, 2116. The remains were located in an old abandoned apartment building complex 30 feet underneath the ground in the old downtown district of the city. Several construction workers discovered the plastic bag while working on a renovation project for their construction company. The company…
Since the appearance of plastic bags in stores in the United States in the late 1970s, they have been presented all over the world. When buying any items from stores, most buyers are served plastic bags to wrap or package. The first plastic bag was invented 150 years ago, soon after, consumers around the world quickly realized that plastic bags were the most common way of packing goods. Plastic bags have such common usage mainly because they are strong and convenient (Hayabuchi et al., 2005).…
The article is about the use of plastic bags and the negative environmental effects that it had in Cordova. It articulates the measures taken to reduce the use of plastic bags. As more plastic bags are used an uneconomic use of the resources is taking place thus market failure occurs. Market failure is a situation whereby the allocation of resources by the free market is inefficient. It can be exhibited in the form of, the existence of externalities both positive and negative. An externality…
bagging goods at shops, from plastic to paper. That is a great step, the community made, that helps me become aware of the issue and what I can immediately do. Products that are not recyclable should not be a product I should continue using; and even if they are recyclable, I should strive to lower my usage as the recycling process contributes to the emissions issue and part of the on-going problem with climate change. But, although removing usage of plastic bags are great, I am still unsure of…
I found my dad (amazingly) and we watched the engines start up, with water whirling everywhere below the surface. I ran to the front of the boat to look down into the water and I kept noticing all these little white puffs everywhere. From where I was, they kind of looked like plastic bags floating through the water. I called Kristi and my dad over to see them. As we were watching, these poofy little balls kept appearing out of nowhere, there must have been hundreds. Finally, a really big one…
the store, then it’s like her whole world is collapsing. Her entire life revolves around a box of cereal. I am also tasked with taking out the garbage. It isn’t a hard job, but my grandma is set in her ways, so everything has to be done a certain way. For instance, the garbage in the bathroom, which is already in a white Walmart bag, must be dumped into a grey Walmart bag before being put in the large, white garbage bag from the kitchen. Additionally, things like banana peels cannot simply be…