Usage Of Plastic Bags
The problem with plastic bags.
Usage of plastic bags. Governments frequently fail to offer subsidies for bags you can reuse. For moving use them to wrap things that might break during the move by wrapping small breakables in their own bags and wrapping the excess bag to keep the items from breaking. Some businesses have stopped offering their customers plastic bags and many communities are considering a ban on plastic bags. Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean.
Some states are experimenting with solutions like mandatory deposits purchasing fees and outright bans. I recycle my walmart bags and use my local grocery store bags for a good many of the uses on the list i e. For hungry sea turtles it s nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. The worldwatch institute estimates that 4 5 trillion plastic bags were produced in 2002.
When you are traveling plastic bags can be used to wrap up breakable souvenirs. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food filling their stomachs with toxic debris. We guess the number hasn t gone down since then and use the upper estimate of 5 trillion. Incentives aren t offered for single use plastic bag alternatives.
Plastic bags for national security duty free and airport bags export or agricultural uses. San francisco was the first to do so in 2007.