I. Why are plastic bags so common?
Plastic bags are so cheap to produce, sturdy, plentiful, easy to carry and store that they have captured at least 80 percent of the grocery and convenience store market since they were introduced a quarter century ago
. II. In what other ways is plastic used?
high demand from companies such as Trex in Winchester, Virginia, for use in building materials.
III. What are the benefits of plastic bags?
Compared to paper grocery bags, plastic grocery bags consume 40 percent less energy, generate 80 percent less solid waste, produce 70 percent fewer atmospheric emissions, and release up to 94 percent fewer waterborne wastes, according to the federation and they are cheap.
IV. What are the dangers of plastic bags?
500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. Of those, millions end up in the litter stream outside of landfills—estimates range from less than one to three percent of the bags. millions of the plastic bags end up as litter. they also destroys the habitat were animals life like turtles.
.V. What has been done so far?
reused as book and lunch bags as kids head off to school, as trash can liners, and to pickup Fido's droppings off the lawn."
VI. Has it been successful? Why or why not?
It hasn’t been very successful because because they still very much plastic bags that are not recycled and they don’t seem to end.
IX. Industry based in Washington, D.C., said the right choice between paper or plastic bags is clearly plastic.