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Jasmine Patricia Tan Yiu

Professor Roce Jane Limoso
English 12
26 January 2015
Thesis Statement: Although plastics can be reused for future purposes (shopping, take-out meals) and are more
durable compared to other alternatives such as paper, plastics are one of the causes of flooding, pollution, global
warming thus preventing the natural environment from having no wastes.
Implementation of the Plastic Ban in the Philippines
Ideas References
I. Introduction
1. I will state the evident use of Plastic bags. P Plastic bags have been popular ever since
people found it to be durable. Supermarkets use this
bag for customers’ use knowing that they are
designed to be lightweight and easy to bring around.
(Canadian Plastics Industry Association)

D From holding your bags to holding your

trash, they are immensely useful given their low
cost. (Wong 4)

2. I will state the disadvantages of the bag. 2. However, these bags destroy the natural
environment of the country. (my own)

P Plastic bags are made from petroleum

goods, which cannot be produced readily in the country.
It is also a highly toxic chemical that manufacture

bags that are not even healthy in nature.

(Clapp and Swanston 317-318)

3. I will relate my examples in the Philippine D Legarda cited from a study that around 500
setting. Billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed each
each year, causing pollution and death to animals.
(Manila Bulletin)

P In Quezon City, they implemented the

Plastic Ban policy requiring all business
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establishments to insert an environmental fee for