Plastic Bags

*Why are plastic bags so common?
-People use them to carry things when they buy them, they are also used for the trash because they save the bad smells.

*In what other ways is plastic used?
-Alight in trees, billow from fences like flags, clog storm drains and they are also used as bottles.

*What are the benefits of plastic bags?
-That they are so cheap to produce, sturdy, plentiful, easy to carry and store that they have captured at least 80% of the grocery and convenience store market. Plastic grocery bags are some of the most reused items around the house.

*What are the dangers of plastic bags?
-Their colorants contain some con
-Contamination in the ocean: they are killing the animals that live there.
-Turtles eat them.
-They descompose in about 100 years.

*What has been done so far?
- Recycling them and using them as other items such as bottles and stuff like that. Plastic bags are being downcycled, meaning that they're being put into another product that itself can never be recycled. There are different campaigns for saving the ocean, and cleaning it. But people are still throwing them and making pollution grow.

*Has it been successful? Why or why not?
-In some ways it has, but there are steel a lot of bags floating in the ocean, because people continue throwing them. But there is steel some confusion about it.

a. What are some of the potential benefits of charging fees for and/or banning plastic bags?
- We will helpo to clean the enviroment.
-With the money the win, they could help cleaning lakes and oceans.
-The people will now change and they will start helping cleaning and recycling.

b. What are some of the potential drawbacks of such programs?
-The costs will incriminate and the fabrics of plastic bags will break. People are beign afected bye the economic climate.

c. Which benefits and drawbacks seem the most compelling? Why?
- The most imortant benefit is that people will star carring about our enviroment and the contamination will stop.

d. Would you support a local law charging fees for (or banning) plastic bags? Why or why not?
-Yes i will because I am worred about the contamination that is affecting not only the enviroment, it is affecting all the people. And I could also hepl the economic crisis by re-using the bags.

1. Do you agree with this new law? Why or why not?
-Yes, because making baggs of other materials that can desapear in a little period of time, makes good things for the enviroment, and for the pollution too.

2. What has been done so far?
-They are only proposing what to do, and they are getting together to see what is going to happen.

3. What needs to be done to enforce such a law?
-That pople from fabrics, are interested in helping the Green Party, so that they can colaborate elaborating the new baggs.

4. What campaigns would you suggest?
-To make baggs from organic materials, and that everybody recycles them so that the enviroment would be clean. And to make comercials about how the situations with baggs is affecting the enviroment.