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Harms of Plastic Bags
Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).With the excessively growing population the use of plastic bags has become a large issue that has escalated quickly because of the abundance, with no immediate solution (Green). Plastic bags are accountable for a large majority of waste in the world’s landfills because they were created with the intent to be used as a single use, toss away item (De Groot, Abrahamse, and Jones). Plastic bags are known to be a hazard to mammals, birds, marine life and the environment. Plastic bags can only break down into tiny fragments over a time lapse of 1,000 years. These tiny fragments are often consumed by wildlife and marine life because of the mistake thinking that the plastic is food, which leads to sickness and even death for these animals. Plastic bags consume an overwhelming amount of non-renewable natural resources for their production. Not only does it take a massive amount of natural resources to produce these plastic bags for a throwaway society, but these resources also release carbon emissions that pollute the atmosphere (De Groot, Abrahamse, and Jones). Plastic bags are also made with a chemical called polychlorinated biphenyls which releases harmful toxins into water (Derraik). Over 557 species has been determined to have been affected by plastic bag debris (Kühn, Susanne, Rebolledo, and van Franeker). Plastic jeopardizes the existence of all living organisms, especially marine life. Marine life has a high probability ingesting plastic bag particles and high risk of getting entangled in the plastic (Lambert, Sinclair and Boxall). Every year an average of one billion sea birds and mammals wound up dead because of the obsessive amount of plastic bags that are in the water ways (De Groot, Abrahamse, and Jones). With every use of a plastic bag there is always a negative, long term consequence that follows.
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Derraik, Jose GB. "The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris: a review." Marine pollution bulletin 44.9 (2002): 842-852. Retrieved from web http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X02002205
De Groot, Judith IM, Wokje Abrahamse, and Kayleigh Jones. "Persuasive normative messages: The influence of injunctive and personal norms on using free plastic bags." Sustainability 5.5 (2013): 1829-1844. Retrieved from web http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/5/1829/htm
Green, Dannielle Senga, et al. "Impacts of discarded plastic bags on marine assemblages and ecosystem functioning." Environmental science & technology 49.9 (2015): 5380-5389. Retrieved from web http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b00277
Kühn, Suhttps://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Talk:Plastic_bag&action=submit#sanne, Elisa L. Bravo Rebolledo, and Jan A. van Franeker. "Deleterious effects of litter on marine life." Marine anthropogenic litter. Springer International Publishing, 2015. 75-116. Retrieved from web http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-16510-3_4#page-1
- Thank you for your editorial against the use of all plastics, but the material is really not needed. Many of similar points have been made in:
- the environmental section of this article
- Plastic, in the Environmental Effects section
- Plastic pollution
- Great Pacific garbage patch
- Plastic particle water pollution
- Plastic shopping bag, Environmental concerns section
- Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags
- Plastic pollution
Your material also does not follow the Wikipedia editorial requirements. Thus it has been removed. Pkgx (talk) 20:40, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
History
In 1961, the plastic bag was invented in Germany. First plastic bags were used by German company Horten AG in Neuss.