Thursday, March 10, 2011

Plastic bags

In the old days our grandfathers used paper bags when shopping. You know why? Because it’s healthy and they can use them for many purposes and also they can use them more than once in shopping. Now I will write about the plastic bags and how they can be a big problem if we don’t try to control the usage.

Plastic bags are made of polyethylene and this material is made of crude oil and you know the crude oil is poisonous and sometimes causes skin cancer. Also in tests they found that the plastic bags need ten thousand years to degrade. So imagine how it can be if we use these kinds of bags every day and after we use it we just throw them in the garbage.
Here are best two solutions about how we can protect our planet and how we can control the usage of plastic bags. First we try to inform the people about the biggest problem we face with this kind of bag. Second we should use the papers bags or we should recycle the plastic bags to protect our environment.