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get to the point, people all over the world nowadays accuse Plastic Bags as the one destroying their environment and even attempts to find ways to ban this type of product and encourages people to use paper instead, now do you think that's the right thing to encourage? from my point of view that's total insanity, just think, what type of material is used to create paper? the answer is Trees, so imagine a world where everyone uses paper bags what do you think will happen to our rainforest? yes that's right there ain't gonna be one and this is one of the reasons why plastic was introduced to save earth to save the green in the world, if you're one of those guys who encourage people to use paper instead of plastics then you're like encouraging people to chop down more trees, now do you still see yourself as Green, environment, Eco Friendly?As for the floods, people point the blame on plastic bags, for they claim to find more numbers of plastic bags than other garbage's, this is not true, we had our department of science check on one of our city's dump site, only 12% of trash are plastic bags, and to think that we use plastic bags to contain our trash and it only produce 12% of trash only means that these product is not the problem, people claim to find more plastic bags, because plastics are light in weight and it is usually the one to float while other trashes are submerged inside that is why we see more of plastic bags in the landfill, but in reality 88% of the trash are not plastic bags. So if you want to regulate garbage's I suggest you try to ban the 88% of it not the 12%, what good is there solving the 12% part when the big part is still around.
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for the clogging in creeks and sewers, let me refresh your brains from hypnosis and remind you that plastics are non living things and we shouldn't put the blame on non living things but rather put it on the living (Human Beings for example), also let me tell you that plastic bags are REUSABLE and RECYCLABLE, so if we the people in this world dump plastic bags in their proper dump stations then none of this problems would have happen, So in my conclusion paper, plastic or canvas and etc won't solve anything because any of those products would share the same problem if we people misuse it.The
answer to all this is DISCIPLINE, if we could apply these discipline on the road for car drivers why can't we apply it on individuals make it a strict rule of NO LITTERING and to SEGREGATE and put their garbage in a proper place which all of our government must provide such as garbage cans, and in return the recyclable products such as plastics that are segregated could be sold(IN A REASONABLE MARKET PRICE) to recycling companies, thus the government gets an added income, isn't this a better way for all of us? I know it is impossible to expect everybody to follow, but by strictly applying this rules will help get at least 50% of the people to follow, which would be good enough and more effective than what we are trying to do right now.Plastic Facts | Eco Friendly
- Did you know plastic grocery bags consume 40% less energy to produce and generate 80% less solid waste than paper bags?
- Paper sacks generate 70 percent more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.
- 2000 plastic bags weigh 30 pounds, 2000 paper bags weigh 280 pounds. The latter takes up a lot more landfill space.
- It takes 91 percent less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper. It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
- Current research demonstrates that paper in today's landfills does not degrade or break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic does. In fact, nothing completely degrades in modern landfills due to the lack of water, light, oxygen, and other important elements that are necessary for the degradation process to be completed.
- It takes 91 percent less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper.
- It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
Eco Friendly Save Earth Source:
http://www.interplas.com/packaging-earth-friendly
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