Plastic bags.
@Nevena83 (65280)
Serbia
November 20, 2018 3:58pm CST
Good evening friends.
I was thinking about what I would write and I remembered that I had an ideal theme, and that's plastic bags. They are very much used in my country and they end up in the streets, the forests, the rivers and the land becomes more polluted. A few months ago, a new law came that says that if you want a plastic bag, you have to pay. And people are now increasingly buying plastic bags because they do not want to pay. They started wearing their bags. Starting next year, a law will be introduced in the capital to ban full use of plastic bags in order to reduce pollution.
How about plastic bags in your country?
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
1 Dec 18
A law was implemented against the use of plasric bags. Thus people are niw using reusable bags or what we call ecobags instead to put the things they shopped. If you don't have one they are anyway plced in a paper bag which is so inconvenient specially whe n you shopped for heavy products. But you can always buy ecobag right there from the cashier.
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
1 Dec 18
They have not been ejected from us yet, but people take them less because they have to pay for them now. I hope that soon they will get used to wear linen bags.There are no paper bags in our country.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
21 Nov 18
the plastic bags here, we use them to collect our kitchen trash; we tie them securely for disposal.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
28 Nov 18
@Nevena83 it is our own way of following environmental requirements of segregating our garbages
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
28 Nov 18
@ridingbet But as if we do not have the basic knowledge of contamination, we throw the garbage on the street as if we do not know that it destroys the place where we live.
@resukill22 (25052)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
21 Nov 18
Some place here especially stores are not allowed to use plastic bag, they use is paper bag,
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@resukill22 (25052)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
21 Nov 18
@Nevena83 oh I see, why don't you try to tell her to use paper bag instead hehe
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
21 Nov 18
@resukill22 Nobody ever listens to anyone :)
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 Nov 18
I reuse the bags in small garbage pails at home and then they go out in the garbage. I can't imagine polluting the woods with my plastic bags.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 Nov 18
@Nevena83 That is horrible, not that Americans don't litter, they do but not so much plastic bags.
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
21 Nov 18
@BelleStarr I hope that our people will become more responsible.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
13 Dec 18
We see plastic bags in the stores. If we bring them home with groceries or other things, we toss them into the recycle box and they are picked up by the weekly garbage company. They are never just tossed into mother natures beauty. That photo is disgusting...can't imagine people just tossing then away...
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
14 Dec 18
@PainsOnSlate Yes, I hope that people will change
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@almostoveryou (4250)
• Philippines
22 Nov 18
There's already a widespread ban on plastic bags here in my province but there are a few exceptions. We now bring our own produce bags to the grocery. The paper bags that we get from shops are used to line our trash bins here at home.
I still buy plastic bags for garbage disposal but I make sure that they're made from biodegradable materials like corn husk for example. Apparently, they biodegrade in 6 months.
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@almostoveryou (4250)
• Philippines
23 Nov 18
@Nevena83 We're slowly getting there. We still have a lot of cleaning up to do in this country. I think it's important that we educate our people first-hand about cleanliness and being environmentally aware.
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
23 Nov 18
@almostoveryou Yes, that's right. People behave irresponsibly towards nature without realizing that they are also destroying their lives.
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@florelway (23158)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Nov 18
There are also moves here in my country to refrain from using plastic bags, Some cities have already implemented them.
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@nawala123 (20852)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 18
it is terrible in here. my country plastice in huge number, just below china
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
21 Nov 18
It's awful, people do not care about the environment they live in.
@Marilynda1225 (79909)
• United States
21 Nov 18
So far plastic bags are still readily available here
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
21 Nov 18
Really? Do people throw them into containers or have them in the streets like ours.
@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
20 Nov 18
When payment was introduced here, the usage reduction was immediately felt, but there are still many of them.
@Shellyjane (462)
• United Kingdom
20 Nov 18
I think they should ban single use plastic bags, they are unnecessary, I try my best to remember to take reusable ones but I often forgot, it would be much better if I had no choice.
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
21 Nov 18
Yes, you are right and I hope that the use of plastic bags will be completely prohibited.
