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njoycjoy (27) 5 years ago

Plastic bags are accumulating in our environment at an alarming rate everywhere. Trillions of plastic bags end up as ugly, wind-blown garbage strewn along roadways, rivers, mountains even in high altitudes, trees, piled up beneath our kitchen sinks, near hospitals, garbage bins heaps of garbage with unbearable stench and swarms of flies. They also play a big part in city getting flash floods as their long life expectancy chokes the drains.Against a common belief that plastic bags decompose and disappear the fact is that they actually slowly break down into toxic bits that pollute our oceans, seas, rivers, lakes and soil. The fact is that we cannot get rid of a polythene bag unless and until it is burnt away completely. Beyond plastic-enriched shorelines, researchers found that plastic particles are now common in the high seas. Beaches worldwide bear witness to the ugly impact of plastic debris on our oceans. We often leave back our stuff like milk jugs, water bottles, cigarette lighters, diaper liners, jar lids, cheap toys unaware that the microscopic bits of plastic have sifted, unseen, throughout the marine environment. The plastic not only litters the beach, it is like fine bits of sand—becoming the beach.countless animals, most notably marine mammals, choke to death after mistaking plastic bags for food. Are they worth such deception? One of the most dramatic impacts is on marine life. Plastic bags kill about 100,000 whales, seals, turtles and other marine animals each year worldwide, In August 2000, an eight-metre whale became stranded and died on a Cairns beach. As reported by Planet Ark autopsy found the whale's stomach was tightly packed with six square metres of plastic, including many plastic bags.A report of Ocean Conservancy had confirmed that they had collected more than 354,000 bags out of which most were of plastic during an international cleanup of costal areas in the United States and 100 other countries. On needs to understand that like we human beings plastic bags cannot be digested or passed by an animal. They stay in the gut, causing pain and certain death. When dead animals decay, the bags are freed and often eaten again by other animals for many years to come. Marine animals often mistake them for jellyfish and eat them, and birds, who cannot fly once they are entangled in them, die of starvation.Aren't we guilty?Can I have your feelings please?Say NO to the use of killer bags: LET’S SAVE THE WORLD

 

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lilaclady (22763) response was accepted on 3/29/2007.
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tags:  buy, clean, death of animals, future, innocents
 
1. myLot reputation of 99/100. lilaclady (22763)   5 years ago

I agree they are a problem but if they do ban them I certainly hope the garbage bags you are then going to have to buy for your bin is made of a better form of plastic, and while I am at it, they should stop letting balloons go to float to the oceans and the same places the plastic bags end up, and it is government departments and fuctions that are good at doing it....


njoycjoy (27)  5 years ago

Agreeed that govt bodies are taking up the issue but are they responsible?No.It is we who are responsible.It is now our moral reponsibility that what we did unknowingly for last 30 years should be undone.There are many countries who are banning the use of plastic bags.Let us save our world.As such what are we leaving then for our future generations?War,pain,death,pollution,no?Say No to plastic bags and discourage your friends,neighbours,family members to use,you then really be of great help


myLot reputation of 99/100. lilaclady (22763)  5 years ago

I agree with you 100%, we must clean up our ways....

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