Essay On Plastic Bags

Thy Thy Le

Eng 99

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Producing and Using Plastic Bags Negatively Impact Every Aspects of Life

Plastic bags The convenience of plastic bags has increased the production and use of plastic bags. Because of the high demand of plastic, it creates abundant worldwide negative issues, such as destroying the environment, hurting the economy, affecting humans’ health.... Unfortunately, human beings disregard the consequences of these influential issues, which impact directly on reality. The composition of plastic is not friendly with the environment and the use of plastic contributes to global warming. Plastic litter poisons animals and risks their lives. Human beings are harming each other by leaving plastic litter into the environment. Because of the unconscious behaviors of humans, they have caused several conflict that effortlessly affect animals. Plastic bags have many negative aspects, such as, the economy, the environment, and humans’ health.

Using plastic bags, hurts the nations’ economies dramatically. The world is wasting too much money in plastic and is harmed its own budget. Firstly, the process of manufacturing plastic bags cannot help the economy grow because it is expensive. According to Nikhil Athreya, “To create one ton of them, it takes $4,000. In a larger scale, it takes $4,000,000,000 to create a 100,000,000,000 of them. Since a ton only sells for a few hundred dollars, plastic bag vendors are not gaining anything by producing them” (Plastic Bags Hunters). A nations’ economy can be pulled deeply into debt if countries keep producing plastic. The input is not equal to the output of the cost of producing plastic items, meaning the economy gambles with plastic production leading to a fragile...

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...vernment has to restrict plastic bags’ manufacturing process, which limits the amount of plastic bags output. Besides, government should tax more on plastic, which is another way to promote banning policy. Prohibition on plastic encourages and boosts people voluntarily bring their own bags, which helps them to save money and rescues the global economy. In fact, the tax revenue of plastic can use running other significant policies and cleaning up the mess that currently exists. Humans should raise an awareness of the harmfulness of plastic bags on reality. The consequences of plastic bags are going to be out of imagination if plastic bags still continuously increase in the number of producing and using. The economy, the environment, the wildlife, and even the humans cannot be well-developed unless humans know their responsibilities of solving issues about plastic.