This is part of an article taken off PlanetArk.com
Plastic Bags - Just say "No!"
20 million Australians currently use around 5 billion plastic check-out bags every year.That so few people can use so much plastic says a lot about our wasteful habits.
A person's use of a plastic check-out bag can be counted in minutes - however long it takes to get groceries from the shops to their homes. These bags, however, can last for hundreds of years.
Combine the growing number of plastic bags used every year with the time it takes for them to break down and you have a major environmental problem.
Whether it's inadvertent or deliberate, plastic bag litter creates many problems. Bags get caught in fences and median strips. They end up blocking drains and trapping birds. When eaten they kill livestock.
At Bathurst's Mt Panorama race track, they even disable racing cars.
In the marine environment, plastic bag litter is lethal, killing thousands of whales, turtles and other sea life every year.
20 million Australians currently use around 5 billion plastic check-out bags every year.That so few people can use so much plastic says a lot about our wasteful habits.
A person's use of a plastic check-out bag can be counted in minutes - however long it takes to get groceries from the shops to their homes. These bags, however, can last for hundreds of years.
Combine the growing number of plastic bags used every year with the time it takes for them to break down and you have a major environmental problem.
Whether it's inadvertent or deliberate, plastic bag litter creates many problems. Bags get caught in fences and median strips. They end up blocking drains and trapping birds. When eaten they kill livestock.
At Bathurst's Mt Panorama race track, they even disable racing cars.
In the marine environment, plastic bag litter is lethal, killing thousands of whales, turtles and other sea life every year.
To find out more about plastic bags and their environmental affect just search google
here i have added a few websites that have some more basic information:
http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page1976.aspx (for amusement)
Should we be following the trend and start charging for plastic bags in our retail outlets?
What do you think?
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