Plastic Bags Should Be Banned In All Stores
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Plastic Bags Should Be Banned In All Stores
Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. At the supermarket check out you are given a choice - paper or plastic? The answer should be 'Neither thank you I have my own reusable grocery bag'!
Plastic bags harm the environment, wildlife and contribute to global warming. Yet we do have a choice and we should vote with our actions.
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“Use a plastic bag for 30 minutes to carry your groceries home. It will be here for 1000 years.”
Plastic Bags Suck
Why Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?
Why should we use less plastic?
- To make a plastic bag takes non renewable resources such as petroleum and natural gas. Not only does this have a big environmental impact, but it also increases our reliance on foreign suppliers.
- The energy used in the manufacturing on plastic bags contributes to global warming and releases toxic chemicals into the environment.
- Hundreds of thousands of animals and marine life each year are affected - they suffer a painful and slow death when they accidentally ingest or become tangled in plastic bags .
- Plastic bags can contaminate the food chain. Toxic chemicals from plastic bags may leach into foods, the sea and the environment which then in turn contaminates the food that we eat.
- Estimates say that over one billion plastic bags are handed out per day. You can make a difference. Easily. Get a reusable grocery bag and say no to plastic!
- Plastic bags go to landfill sites. What you have used for maybe 30 minutes will be with the earth for over 1000 years.
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Plastic Bags Should Be Banned In All Stores
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iawara says:
yes should be Banned !!!
Posted December 03, 2011
Koupie says:
I agree, and it is getting to that point now where I live. Now you have to pay for bags if you want one , and there are always reusable shopping bags you can buy for 99c at my grocer store if you forget your bags.
Posted November 22, 2011
VickiSims says:
Unfortunately there are too many people that won't change their ways voluntarily, so sometimes governments have to intervene by banning things that cause harm to the entire planet.
Posted November 14, 2011
desa999 says:
Yes, I was amazed to see there is huge area of the northern pacific ocean thick with plastic waste. Enough said!
Posted November 04, 2011
jackie says:
I have a couple of reusable bags and have'nt needed plastic bags in a long time. Most stores take 5cents off your bill if you take your own bag. Now if someone would do something about those disgusting (non-biodregradable) disposable nappies.........
Posted August 13, 2011
jackie stead says:
I always take my reusable shopping bag. Have'nt needed a plastic bag in a long time. Now if someone would do something about those disgusting non-biodegradable disposable nappies i would be happy.
Posted August 13, 2011
kath mayall says:
I am waging a one woman campaign in The Gambia, against plastic bags.
Posted August 13, 2011
kath mayall says:
I agree! I heard that plastic bags are confiscated on arrival at Rwanda airport. They are ILLEGAL in the country!
Posted August 13, 2011
No way, Monkeybrain!
SandyPeaks says:
It's good to reuse them for supermarkets, but we have to use something to put donated clothes in to recycle them, or to recycle bottles, cans etc - or to items from local sales, or else we'd have to return to the days when everything was wrapped in paper and tied up with string as they did once. Then people would complain about the piles of string and paper!
As long as we have to throw away expensive electronic goods which are mendable just because it's cheaper for the stores, we'll never stop wasting space on landfill.
Posted March 18, 2011
tandemonimom says:
Well, we need to phase them out but ... hmm ... I find it hard to support government intervention (a ban) on something that should (and could) easily be handled by social pressure. Stores and growing consumer pressure are taking care of it, gradually, but it is happening.
Posted December 29, 2008
MoreThanMommy says:
We use the plastic bags for trash. If we didn't get them when shopping, we'd have to buy them; we need bags either way. I like the incentive approach. Really, unless we're going to ban all plastic bags, it's silly to just ban those for shopping. Why should the government (or you) decide when it's ok to use a plastic bag and when it's not?
Posted September 22, 2008
FindYouLive says:
A bit of common sense is better than legislation. Just do your part. Personal responsibility has it's merits.
Posted September 21, 2008
KimGiancaterino says:
I think it's better to charge people for bags and reward people who do the right thing. Our Trader Joe's holds a weekly raffle for customers who bring in their own bags.
Posted August 04, 2008
JigsawForte says:
I like IKEA's solution: Charge for 'em! A monetary hit now is far more persuasive than an outright ban.
Posted June 30, 2008
spirituality says:
Banning is too drastic. Some people will forget to bring a bag. Charge a bit for them, or only give them out if people ask for them.
Posted April 20, 2008
stevecrenshaw says:
I have to agree with Oosquid because everything does not need to be banned. I have switched to paper but I am considering the canvas bags. I am a devout Christian and I am trying to get my friends to see this as a need. My grandmother used her own bags in the 1980's. I don't know why she just did.
Posted April 08, 2008
Oosquid says:
Why ban? Why does everything have to be banned? Ban smoking, ban this ban that.
Encouraging reuse of plastic bags makes sense but as paper bags are not offered as an alternative here (UK) I'd be snookered if I got to the checkout and forgotten to bring a bag with me, which is quite likely.
I use plastic supermarket bags for waste disposal, so they are not just used once.
Posted February 24, 2008
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Koupie Nov 22, 2011 @ 8:17 am | delete
- Have done so for years now, I have so many and some nice ones , I love the fold ups that you can pop in your handbag :)
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VickiSims
Nov 14, 2011 @ 10:47 pm | delete
- A great timely topic for debate. Many cities are passing laws to ban plastic bags ~blessed
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Tipi
May 9, 2011 @ 8:39 pm | delete
- I visited my sister a while ago and we went to Lake Superior to find driftwood, Lake Superior glass and rocks. Shell brought us to the landfill which is less than a mile from the lake. The scene there was tragic with the woods the road littered with plastic bags hanging from tree branches. One picture does paint a thousand words.
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SandyPeaks
Mar 18, 2011 @ 3:25 pm | delete
- If manufacturers stopped making flimsy plastic parts and made high quality ones as they used to thirty years ago, we'd throw less gadgets away too. It's very annoying to throw a flashlight away when the vital parts break because they are paper-thin!
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vallain
Feb 3, 2010 @ 11:55 pm | delete
- I'm trying to be good about this. Some grocery stores in Canada charged 5 cents a bag if you used their bags. Everyone in line had their own cloth bag. Good method to get people to change.
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