Does anyone have any good essays or articles I could read about recycling plastic bags? I need to give a presentation and it would really help!!!thanks lt;3
There are different types of plastic. Look at the bottom of your soda bottle, there is probably a triangle with a 2 in it. Now look on the bottom of another type of container, like tupperware. The number is different because it is a different formula of plastic. The caps on your soda bottles are even a different type of plastic than the bottle itself! Some municipalities even require that you remove all items not on their list from your recycling bin. This includes those caps and not putting your recycling out in plastic bags. One wrong item could ruin a whole batch of plastic being recycled because of the various melting points. Some grocery stores offer plastic bag recycling bins for customers. It is best to make sure there aren't receipts or other items in the bags before bringing them in. If you aren't sure if your grocery store offers this service, call their customer service desk. Tote bags have also become very popular for grocery shopping. I have a zip-up tote bag that I carry in my purse for when I go somewhere like a book store so I don't need to take a bag. Clothing stores still look at me like I have 2 heads when I say no bag, but I think it will catch up soon enough. The $1 tote bags they sell in the grocery stores are great! We only need 4 for all of our weekly groceries. We have only needed to replace 1 since we first bought them over a year ago. Some stores even offer a discount if you bring your own plastic, paper, or tote bag for your items. They are also a lot easier to carry as the heavier bags won't cut into your hands the way the plastic bags tend to do. We don't know how long it takes for a plastic bag to break down in a land fill, they are still pretty new. Please see the links below for more information and for a product that is a great substitute that I have found recently for regular trash bags. Thanks for doing your part to help the planet!
I don't have the essay but some leading points i can tell you a)these are being used in low quality plastic products like cheap plastic shoes(sleepers),toys etc. b) we should reuse them instead of getting new one.
Hello... Plastic Bags: Sword Towards Ourselves Five hundred billion used globally and one hundred billion of them end up in U.S. landfills, taking about one thousand years to decompose, but only 5.2 percent were recycled (Borrud, 2007, p.75).-These are the figures plastic bags have produced every year. Human beings invented plastic bags for the convenience of carriers and packers. However, just as other great inventions, say, nuclear energy and biotechnology, plastic bags are causing serious issues like global warming, environment pollution and energy consumption. They are gradually becoming sword towards ourselves. In responding to this problem, the city of San Francisco has become the trail blazer to prohibit non-biodegradable plastic bags in its large supermarkets and pharmacies. Actually, petroleum-based plastic bags should be banned because they consume colossal amount of natural resources and energy, cause inefficient in economics and can badly pollute the environment... You can get more info here:
