Plastic Bags

Some Facts about Plastic Bags

A plastic bag is constituted by a slender and willowy plastic film, used as a hauler for containing an abundant amount of products. Their importance can not be ignored for the fact that whenever you are to buy something from a mall, supermarket, you require a plastic bag immediately to put your purchased goods into them, they are likely to be more common in use because they are so cheap, sturdy, water resistant, low cost, plentiful and part of our daily life.

Producing in the trillions, they are the omnipresent consumer item on the Earth, yet according to an estimate it has been said that every year almost 100 billions consumed plastic bags are thwarted by Americans, only 1% of the total plastic bags has been recycled, the rest has been left over to meander about everywhere, titling them an environmental scourge. Because once used most of the people throw away plastic bags, and these discarded plastic bags take space in landfills but most of them go airborne and got caught in fences, trees, clogging gutters and waterways. More than a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtle die every year from eating or ensnaring in plastics as reported by Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conversation, it also maintains that problem with plastic bags is this that they can not be permanently removed, one can tackle with every type of marine pollution leaving the plastic bags aside as one can not master with them.

Yet on the other hand, the allies of plastic bags narrates that almost 100 billion plastic bags are sold and consumer’s first choice to carry groceries. Though lightweight, but an ordinary one ounce bag has the capacity of carrying 44 pounds. Plastic bags are used in multiple industries such as agriculture, mailers, hotels, fish, food, hosiery, dry cleaning, medical etc., what makes plastic bag the most wanted with the consumers is its quality of reusing again and again. Various types of plastic bags are available in the market, printed plastic bag help promoting your business, reinforced patch handles provided with them make them easy to handle. These manufacturers assure that as compare to paper bags, plastic bags are environmental friendly for the manufacturers release 94 percent less pollution into the water and 70 percent less air pollution, emitting no toxic perfumes when burned. Recycling of plastic bags has become an obligatory for the most of the supermarkets of US; they are recycled into plastic lumber, new plastic bags, then it has been estimated that 80 consumers reuse plastic bags in multiple ways in multiple times; plastic bags have another advantage over paper bags as the shipment of the same number of plastic bags cost less transportation expenditures.

Yet these arguments are refuted by people who claim that plastic bags do harm to marine animals, being lightweight they tend to go beneath the water under the ocean and get settled there, only 1% of plastic bags recycled today because the recycling of them again into plastic bags cost more than the making of an original new plastic bag. 50% of all marine litter is some form of plastic that was extinct from oceans 60 years ago.

To cut short the use of plastic bags 22 cent tax on plastic bag has been introduced in Ireland, while in the flood prone Bangladesh plastic bags have been proscribed since 2002 as they caused blockage of drainage system. The need of the hour is to utilize plastic bags in a more sensible way, once aloft they are in the air causing problems difficult to fix for.