Plastic bags and Paper bags

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Plastic bags and Paper bags Plastic bags and paper bags are commonly used among our everyday life. They are inexpensive and convenient. At the same time people use plastic bags and paper bags, the price we pay to our planet is much greater than inexpensive and convenient. Plastic bags and paper bags are hard to recycle; it is possible that a few bags of 100 billion bags get recycled. A plastic bag is harder to recycle than the paper bags. If we combustion to plastic bags and paper bags. It will to effect of our environment. Also plastic bags are more to effect our environment than paper bags. Plastic bags and paper bags same as it is all bags in our daily life to use, it is inexpensive and convenient. They are different by recycled and plastic bags are more useful than paper bags. Plastic bags and paper bags are have same and different. Plastic bags can be recycled only 1 percent of 100 billion plastic bags and current estimates say 500 billion to 1trillion plastic bags which are petroleum, are used every year worldwide only 1to 3 percent is recycled. In fact 600 bags per second in CA and unfortunate pare is we only recycle approximately 1 to 4 percent. But by the paper bags we can have 10 to 15 percent to recycle. Also the numbers are astounding: Californians use more than 19 billion plastic grocery bags each year, creating 147,038 tons of waste in our landfills. With Californians throwing away over 600 bags per second, they are creating enough waste every year to circle the planet over 250 times. By California bag recycling law, more than 7000 retail stores in California will be required to prominently display plastic bag recycling bins. With the exception of curb-side recycling, the 7000-plus receptacles represent the greatest number of points of collection for any recycling endeavor in California. The bill also requires stores and bag manufactures to fund an
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