Every year, Americans reportedly throw away 100 billion plastic grocery bags.
Oct 31st 2011Mr. Morphis' Class blogUncategorized
This has got to stop! These garbage patches are growing and are harming specific species, and the overall health of our oceans. If you have to get a bag, a reusable bag is preferable and easy! My wife and I purchased five of them for $5 and use them every week. If we forget, which happens at times, we just ask for paper bags rather than plastic. We use these paper bags as trash bags also. Simple, easy, and if more people would do this, we could at least stop adding to this trash heap that is “piling” up and degrading our ocean ecosystems. 🙂
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Yvonne on 18 Nov 2011 at 9:27 am #
Why aren’t the bags and plastic bottles banned by the government from production if they are trashing the ocean and the environment?
Some plastics won’t disintegrate(?) at all. People will continue to be lazy and not recycle or will throw their trash wherever they happen to be—-ocean,rivers,forest, roadside. They ought to make the deposits much higher
on cans and bottles to make it worth while for people to want to return them.
How about $2 a 6 pack?
yvonne
Mr. Morphis' Class blog on 18 Nov 2011 at 4:18 pm #
Hi Yvonne
Thanks for your comment, which makes a great deal of sense! Here in Oregon, there is legislation at the city level in many cities, that is looking to ban plastic bags from being used, and I know there has been talk at the state level as well. It would be nice if we as a country would start making it protocol to ban the production of items that are a source of pollution or that cannot be recycled easily.
Mr. M