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❇️ BAN POLY BAGS ❇️​

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Plastic bags should be banned. Plastic is non-bio-degradable and thus causes pollution; as it cannot be recycled, burning plastic diffuses harmful smoke. Plastic also emits some radiation. Plastic bags can prove to be a choke hazard for small animals and people. Plastic water bottles are also thought to be carcinogenic.

Plastic causes :-

• Environmental damage
• Repairing the damage
• The great waste
• Non - biodegradable
• They litter our streets

Americans use an estimated 100 billion plastic bags every year. Although most plastic bags can be recycled, the vast majority of lightweight plastic bags end up in landfills or are set adrift in the environment, where they can wreak havoc on wildlife or infrastructure.

At least two Minnesota cities are exploring whether to ban businesses from handing out lightweight plastic bags for free. The Star Tribune reports that city officials in both Minneapolis and St. Louis Park are considering bans, which would be the first plastic bag bans in the state.

Bans or taxes on plastic bags are increasingly common across the world. But the policy measures have received some blowback from plastic bag manufacturers, who lobby the public and elected officials to oppose the measures.

Why ban plastic bags?

Opponents have a number of criticisms about plastic bags, ranging from complaints that bags hanging in trees mar the landscape to concerns that plastic bags are killing aquatic life.

The plastics industry argues that plastic bags are being demonized, and they challenge almost every fact cited by supporters of bans, although, to be fair, both sides in the debate often cite difficult to verify statistics.

Opponents say the fossil fuel-based bags are a waste of polluting and non-renewable resources. The industry correctly points out that plastic bags create less of a carbon footprint than the production of single-use paper bags, although it's not clear that people in areas with plastic bag bans or taxes automatically substitute paper bags

But there are other environmental concerns about plastic bags. Estimates of the time necessary for a plastic bag to degrade in a landfill range from 500 to 1,000 years, although there's no exact consensus among scientists.

They also account for a significant proportion of the trash in bodies of water, according to a United Nations Environment Programme report released in 2009. The bags accounted for about 8.5 percent of trash found in the Mediterranean Sea, and were commonly found on other beaches and in bodies of water studied by the agency.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes that marine animals can be harmed after eating or being tangled in plastic bags. Animals that eat plastic can starve, choke or be otherwise injured. A 2001 study of sea turtles cited by the agency found that 68 percent of them had eaten some sort of plastic, including plastic bags.

Windblown plastic bags that litter the streets, get tangled in trees or eaten by animals are also a problem in some areas. Some communities have banned the bags after they interfered with water infrastructure equipment. Bangladesh banned lightweight plastic bags in 2002 after it was found that they'd clogged drainage systems and contributed to widespread flooding in 1998 and 1988