Polythene Bags

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. ~ Norbert Wiener

Polythene is not biodegradable
Polythene threatens the life in the water bodies. The polythene articles (e.g. six pack rings) affects the survival of animals the aquatic and marine Eco systems.
Polythene is also likely to clog the drains causing problems in the water flow of the pipes. The pipe blockages would cause flooding and the free flow of water is disturbed.
Polythene is harmful for animals if swallowed. It can accumulate in the bowels which ultimately becomes lethal to the animal.
In most households poly bags are used to preserve food items. Reused bag may be contaminated by materials harmful to human health.
Environmental preservation and conservation have been fads these days.
The hard work of nature advocates has seemingly achieved success and a product of this is the campaign to ban the use of plastic bags in many places worldwide.
Plastic bags, as noted by environmentalists, are among the main causes of nature degradation. Current plastic bag use and disposal, both by consumers and through waste management activities, not only create environmental problems, but also reinforce the perception of a wasteful society. Plastic bags as litter create a visual pollution problem, and affect our aquatic wildlife, while the heavy reliance on ‘disposable’ plastic bags by the Malaysian consumer raises questions of resource consumption and resource efficiency. Many of the grocery stores use the plastic bags as a tool to keep the things easy to carrying. Plastic bags aren’t just at the grocery store, there everywhere, landfills, the oceans and lakes, hanging on trees around our neighborhoods and suffocating wildlife. As a human being, I’m agreeing that plastic bags should be banned permanently. This is because plastic bags are not biodegradable, so where ever people leave them, they will stay, forever.
Firstly, they use up natural resources to make the plastic bags. The most common plastic bags you see today are made from polyethylene. This material is made from crude oil and natural gas. "Every time we use a new plastic bag they go and get more petroleum from the Middle East and bring it over in tankers," said Stephanie Barger, executive director of Earth Resource Foundation in Costa Mesa, California. "We are extracting and destroying the Earth to use a plastic bag for 10 minutes." It shows that the plastic bags didn’t bring any benefits to environmental but we use the natural resources not to a right ways.
Moreover, they harm wildlife and marine life. Plastic bags are now ubiquitous in our environment, and animals both on land and in water are being strangled, choked and killed by them. Plastic bags are now the fifth most common debris item found on beaches.
Meanwhile, Planet Ark, an international environmental group, estimates that, worldwide, 100,000 whales, seals, turtles and other marine animals are killed by plastic bags each year. This senseless act is killing innocent sea animals at a...

They are not biodegradable so when people throw these bags away they will just end up piled up in pits. If burned, plastic bags will release harmful chemicals which are not only hazardous to our health , but damaging to the ozone layer as well . When thrown in bodies of water , plastic bags pose more danger as these do not only pollute the water but also kill fishes and other sea animals . These and more reasons make the banning of plastic bags quite agreeable. However, it should be noted that banning is not an appropriate solution for the pollution problem that we now have.
When examining the reasons why the use of plastic bags should be prohibited , one can 't help but notice that the real problem is not the utilization of plastic bags . Rather , the problem stems from the methods of how the bags are disposed of . So , it would probably be better if the environmental campaign would start at a grand crusade to promote the effective use and disposal of plastic bags . Instead of asking people to stop using bags and forcing them to engage in a dilemma of...