Plastics
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Hundreds of billions of plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, with less than 1% being recycled as it is more expensive to recycle bags than produce new ones. Most plastic bags are not recycled and instead end up polluting soils, waterways and oceans, having catastrophic effects on wildlife which often ingest or become entangled in plastic bags, mistaking them for food. Many countries and jurisdictions have implemented bans on plastic bags to reduce their environmental impact.
Plastics
- 1. Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 2. Less than 1% of bags are recycled. It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one. http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 3. There's harsh economics behind bag recycling: It costs Rs. 172,000 to process and recycle 1,000 kg of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for Rs. 1,376 http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 4. Then Where Do They Go? http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 5. Of the lot that we throw out as wastes, a lot of them end up in contaminating soils and waterways http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 6. A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. The real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean-fill http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 7. Bags get blown around http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 8. to different parts of our lands http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 9. and to our seas, lakes and rivers. http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 10. Bags find their way into the sea via drains and sewage pipes http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 11. Plastic bags have even been found floating north of the Arctic Circle http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 12. Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the Indian coastline http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 13. Plastic bags photodegrade: Over time they break down into smaller, more toxic petro-polymers http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 14. The effect on wildlife can be catastrophic http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 15. Birds become terminally entangled http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 16. Nearly 200 different species of sea life including corals, whales, dolphins, and turtles die due to plastic bags http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 17. They often choke to death ingesting plastic bags which they mistake for jellyfish, their favourite food http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 18. 皆看 What do we do? http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 19. If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 20. That's 24 bags a month http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 21. That's 288 bags a year http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 22. That's 22,176 bags in an average life time http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 23. If just 1 out of 5 people in India did this we would save 4,435,200,000,000 bags over our life time http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 24. Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 25. Reducing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 26. China has banned plastic bags and will thus save 37 million barrels of oil each year! http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 27. Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Singapore, and many others world over have banned or are moving toward banning the plastic bags! http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 28. On this June 5, World Environment Day, 2008, or June 8, World Ocean Day lets decide to make Our India plastic free! Say NO to Plastic Bags! http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com
- 29. You Can Make A Difference! Thank You Ramjee Nagarajan Ramjee.N@gmail.com http://ramjeenagarajan.blogspot.com ; Ramjee.N@gmail.com