Hypothema #1: Paper bags are no better than plastic ones
Evidences:
1. Paper bags are no energy saver. It took four times as much energy to manufacture paper bags than polyethylene ones. To produce it, people would also need to use water twenty times as much water plastic bags use. Paper bags also comes from trees, so it has a big potential to destroy forests. Each year in US only, the consumption of 10 million plastic bags sacrificed 14 million of trees.
2. Paper bags take much less energy to recycle than plastic ones, but the number of them that are actually recycled is only 5%. So much to be eco-friendlier, eh?
and it could also lead to a trainwreck of plastic surgery
Evidences:
1. Biodegradable plastic bags contain additives to help them degrade into smaller pieces more quickly with the help of heat or light. But a report said adding the metal compounds to the plastics did not improve their environmental performance and ''potentially gives rise to certain negative effects''. The same report also casts doubts on our ability to exactly estimate the time these "eco-friendly" bags need to decompose.
2. These bags would never decompose in the absence of oxygen---while in landfill, oxygen barely exists. The "solution" would be throwing them away to marine ecosystem in hope for faster decomposition, but as the consequence, they would pollute oceans and possibly intoxicate sea creatures when they release chemical substance during decomposition!
Plastic Ocean, as oppose to Pacific Ocean.
The bottom line is, try to reach for something that doesn't need to be recycled in order to be reused. Probably something like this?
PS: We don't know what 'hypothema' means :)
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BalasHapusFrom Ikhsan loves the Earth
From Seminar on The Environment for the Loving Earth.
i agree with your opinion but if this article your hand write..
BalasHapusit's not about opinion or what because plastics indeed could me more dangerous than we have ever been thinking. proven by the pieces of truth mentioned above, we need to admit that plastics or plastic bags are not good. this way we need strong commitment that it can contain us so many reasons why we should reduce the use of plastic bags. the plastics can never buy us a better environment, beside the common truth that using plastic bags is way much more simple and easier due to its availability around us. people wont be bothered searching for alternatives as long as they have found something comforting themselves, which is using plastic bags rather than, perhaps, canvas bags. therefore strong commitment would certainly take a bigger part in this situation.
BalasHapusgunakan lah apapun seperlunya kawan, sederhana kan.
BalasHapus