How to Ban or Recycle Plastic Bags?

Nowadays, people always use plastic objects, like bags, bottles and toys. Plastic made our lives much convenient than many decades ago. Even though people knew that the plastic is made from an unrenewable resource, humans are still using it for their own benefit. Many people said plastic things could be dissolved or melted easily, but the truth is if nothing is done to them, they will exist on the earth for many decades. Using plastic bags is bad, but the worst thing is that humans throw them everywhere, on the river, lake, and street. Some marine animals don’t know what those floating-on-the-water things are. Curiosity makes them swallow the floating-on-the-water things; therefore, they die from suffocation or being poisoned. Plastic bags on the pavements or roads affect land animals too. When the wind blows, plastic bags could be easily brought to trees and hang on there, which can make the cities ugly and birds die, humans will be poisoned too. Since we eat those “poisonous” animals, our health will be affected. People always say recycle plastic bags! Signs can be always seen in malls, grocery stores. Nevertheless, salesmen and consumers are still using it and factories are still making those plastic bags.
It has always been a question: HOW TO recycle/ban plastic bags? There are many ways to solve the problem. For example, in China, every grocery store and mall still has plastic bags, but it costs you 0.1 or 0.2 Yuan (0.5~1 baht) to pay for it. Citizens in China think why they have to spend money on small, unrecyclable, and useless plastic bags, which are also bad to the environment. From that day on, Chinese people always bring their cloth or paper bags shopping. Those plastic bags are still here, but the number will never change too much. The plastic bags are only for the emergency uses. Also, according to an article I read, Shenzhen announced that anyone who gives the plastic bags for free would be fined from 5000 to 50000 Yuan (about 667 to 6667 dollars)
The second way to ban the plastic bags is to have paper boxes or paper bags instead. In Villa Nichada, there is no plastic bag. It “forces” you to bring your own. But if you forget and you buy a lot of food, they will give you a paper box that was used to contain other things. This is so much better than plastic.
There are still many ways to recycle plastic bags too. Some creative people collect those used plastic bags, and put them together to make a big bag, which is more stable, harder and more useful than the original plastic bags, which could be used for many times. If you are not that creative, you can also use it to line small trash cans instead of buying new wastebasket liners, which can be used many times and won’t be damaged. After using it, you can wash it gently and reuse it again. You can also cut those plastic bags to strips and use it to protect the fragile objects you have during shipping.
Plastic bags have another usage. If you have plants at your home and if you worried about your plants might die in a bleak winter, the problem is simple to be solved. Reuse the plastic bags to protect them from frost. If your plants are potted, you can wrap the whole thing to protect the root, too!
There are so many ways to ban or recycle plastic bags, and they are very simple. If you are willing to spend only a little time of your life to do these things to save the earth, it is not too late to reduce global warming. If everyone does that, countless plastic bags will be banned or recycled. Therefore, let’s do something and save our planet!


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