Plastic Bags Are for Life, Not Just for One Shopping Trip

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Why should you care? Plastic bags are used by everyone; therefore it has a huge effect on everyone in every country. Why do we need plastic bags when we are only using them for an average span of twelve minutes? In those twelve minutes you are only using the plastic bag to carry your items to your car then into your house. Plastic bags are terrible for our environment and are killing several animals each year; and poisoning us. Plastic bags however have a few benefits and in this essay it tells you some helpful tips to reuse those unwanted plastic bags. There are organisations out there to help get rid of these plastic bags but not a lot of people know about them. Get involved make a difference in your community. Plastic bags, you may think of them as a convenience. Most of the plastic bags that get thrown away end up in the ocean and get wrapped around sea turtles and other animals. About 100,000 animals such as dolphins, turtles, whales and penguins are killed every year due to plastic bags. In general, plastic bags take anywhere from 20 to 1,000 years to break down. They don’t decompose, instead breakdown into smaller and smaller pieces where birds and other animals eat them passing on these bad toxins called plastic. I know what you’re thinking...How does this affect me and why should I care? Well it affects our health. Not only are the animals getting poisoned but we are too. When a bird eats plastic thinking that it is its food then a human comes along and kills that bird and when we eat it, all the plastic toxins from the bird goes into our digestion and makes us feel sick. Also Plastic bags are a huge danger to our children. Over twenty-four babies under the age of one get killed by plastic bags from suffocating each year. In 2008 Alberta handed out nine hundred million plastic bags to consumers and in the United States of America billions of bags are

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