Problems about plastic bags.

Have you ever wondered what plastic bags are really doing and how much it really costs to make them not just cash, but the air we breathe, and the food we eat are all getting affected. Which means these simple single use plastics that we love;use are actual destroying us more than we could possibly know and heres how.

The problem with plastic bags isn’t just the pollution its that we only use it for one purpose only shopping. Americans use 100 billion plastic bags annually you can say of the least because with human population increasing more and more we are going to be using more and more plastic bags to fulfill our needs. Instead of using plastic bags we can use the fossil fuels for something greater than just shopping how about transportation. Did you know it take 14 singe use plastic bags to make enough gas to drive exactly one mile. Imagine how much gas we are technically wasting on a single use plastic that has no purpose besides holding our items.

Plastic bags are near 1/3 of what we waste each year and guess what it is just used for one thing and one thing only. The average american actually takes home about 1,500 plastic bags a year; Do you think that’s a problem or an achievement? The biggest problem is that we use all of this time to make a bag but we don’t even recycle them. Only 1 percent of plastic bags a year are recycled which means that we our using non-renewable resources for something wasteful. With these statistics it shows that the average family recycles enough plastic bags for one mile of gas thats it. (10factsaboutsingleuseplasticbags.com)

Whats our purpose if the only thing we can do is consume and destroy the world with our demands and needs. What are we going to do when our whole life is impacted by the death of everything around us from the pollution we started in the 1800’s. Yes, I said we because everyone is responsible because I bet you grabbed a plastic bag and brought home groceries with it last week or even today. The use of plastic is killing our animals; over 100,000 marine animals are killed by these little handy bags annually which means that the world might slowly end right in front of our generation. Like plastic bags only are used for a total of 12 minutes on average.

But what we can do to change this world problem is to make bags out of algae. Since, the bags will be made out of algae our problems will be solved because while the algae is decomposing it will create oxygen, and soil while it is in the land fill and if it goes into the ocean plankton can eat it and get rid of it without any health problems like todays plastics. If we just gave up or consuming nature and worked together to fix this world problem of people just buying. We could save so many resources instead of buying the newest thing, because now a days people waste so much resources on new items that we don’t even need that our planet is slowly dying.

The coral reef is dying because of oil pollution like the oil spill and the plastics all over the ocean. One other place that is falling apart is the rainforest because all we do is use,use, use and never replace what we take. I hope that you readers have learned something to help save our world that we live in because if we just let this world die. All of us will die; from the faults that we are all a part of.