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Plastic Bags Should Be Banned
Plastic Bags Should Be Banned
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 store
use the plastic bags as a tool to keep the things easy to carrying. Plastic bags aren’t just at the grocery store, there
every where, landfills, the oceans and lakes, hanging on trees around our neighborhoods and suffocating wildlife.
As a human being, I’m agree 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 an...
There are so many inconveniences that come with using plastic bags:
They flow into our waters
kill our sea animals
they get stuck in our trees
kill our birds
clog our sewers
India, Suicide Capital of the World: India is the suicide capital of the world. According to medical proof, suicidal
tendencies tendencies have been present in 1/3 of people with mild cases of depression and in nearly three quarters
of people who are severely depressed. No age, group or social or professional class is exempt from suicide, think of
the famous people who have killed themselves. Particularly shocking and by no means rare, is the suicide among
young. Out of every three cases of suicide reported every 15 minutes in India, one is committed by a youth in the
age group of 15 to 29.
India has the highest number of suicide cases in the world. More than 100,000 people in India die by suicides each
year. Here are some more suicide statistics in India:
1. The highest number of suicides and attempted suicides happen in Mumbai and parts of Maharashtra. The Crime
Bureau Data states that the people who commit maximum suicides include students, housewives, jobless youth and
pensioners. For every student who commits suicide, there are 13 who attempt it?
2. Three major reasons for suicide: academic disappointments, relationship failures and financial downfall.
Most of the colleges in India have namesake counseling centers, which are locked most of the times. Why does our
education system look down upon a child who is caught copying and treat her like an out-caste? Can you imagine
the shock the child goes through, the embarrassment of being torn apart by her parents, by her teachers and by
everyone she knows? Obviously, the child will try to seek an end to the misery.
• Do not blame the movies: Movies may be a trigger but the bullets are already loaded in the form of the
negative thoughts that fill up the child’s brain. If it wasn’t a movie scene, he would have killed himself
anyway by reading a novel or hearing about someone who committed suicide.