Plastic Bag

“Plastic bag or polybag is made with thin, flexible, plastic textile that are used for transporting goods”. Plastic bags are threat to human being, animals and the environment. In this essay the effect of plastic bags will be evaluate, and the solution will be given.

Plastic bags was invented by Sten Gustaf Thulin in 1965, when he was working for celloplast company, and he was bestow for inventing a bag made with wieldable material such as polypropylene, and plastic bags are being produced By Norrkoping company . Toronto Bans Plastic Bags ( 2012). In 1980s plastic bags became commonly used, between 500 billion and 1 trillion bags are being used in worldwide. (Sara Wittenberg,2005). Due to high numbers of plastic bags in the world, the issue surrounding their impact on the environ ment become very impartment, nevertheless because of how cheap and portable plastic bags are, it is now a threat to human being, animals and the environment, because of the way plastic bags are being deposits, now it has contributed to landfill, animals in sea and also donated to global warming.

plastic bags are used every day, and it does a great damage to the environment, air pollution occurs because of the emission of toxic chemicals and carbon oxide during the manufacturing of plastic bags .According to the Institute for Lifecycle Environmental Assessment (1990), also when being burnt it causes air pollution because it is made with different chemicals such as xylene, ethylene oxide and benzene which is toxic. THE HINDU (2010), and it is harmful to the environment and human health, plastic bags has various impact in human being, because it releases carbon oxide into the atmosphere and this causes various disease such as lung cancer, heart disease, also causes damage to the soil, because the plastic bags block the penetration of water into the soil and make soil infertile, for example if a famer is to use the land later to cultivate crops he/she has to buy fertilizer to make the...