Poly-bags have today become the part and parcel of our daily necessity. We use them in different sizes without paying any attention towards their adverse effects on our health and hygiene. We use them proudly as a carrier of our items and other accessories of our daily use. While making their use, we feel only their comfort and convenience, they provide us, but we do not keep in mind their side effects. As these bags are non-biodegradable in nature, so they remain in existence for a longer period, and thereby they cause inconvenience.
Polythene shopping bags and wrappers are a menace and potential threat to the environment. They choke your drain and sewer system and cause, insanitary conditions. This gives birth to many deadly germs and other fatal diseases. Poly-bags impure the atmosphere and create an unhealthy effect on the life of all the living beings. We should be very cautious in their use.
Here are some facts about the impact of poly-bags on our environment:
- Every year 100,000 sea turtle and other aquatic animals die because of plastic bags, when animals mistaken them for food.
- Tones of carbon emissions are done by the manufacturer of plastic bags, which harms the ozone layer and our environment.
- In the UK, banning poly-bags for a year would be the equivalent of taking 20,000 cars off the road.
- Each year around 1 trillion poly-bags is used worldwide.
- Most Poly-bags takes over 400 years to break down and biodegrade.
- Each day China uses 3 billion plastic bags.
- Each year around 500,000 plastic bags is collected in Australia during Clean Up Day.
- Each day 250 tone of plastic wastes comes out of various colonies of major cities in many countries like India, Pakistan.
- Each year around 100 million barrels of oil is required to make the world’s plastic bag.
Keeping in view the impact of plastic and poly-bags on us, some governments around the world have either banned the use of poly-bags or discouraging their usage.
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