Speech and Notes on Plastic Bags
NOTES
Every day over 10million new plastic bags are being created, that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year.
You may think plastic bags are harmless, but the every time you accept plastic bags at a check out, you are damaging the environment we live in.
For that one time you use that plastic bag, it can last from 500-100years.
You may think you are helping the environment when you are buying biodegradable bags, but they take just as long to degrade. But there is a way to help the en
As you may know plastic bags are a big problem in today’s society. They are damaging then environment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTurihxSTnI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4StKI8HkzSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9PC8s-r2Q&feature=related http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/01/plastic-bags-animals-making-the-wild-safe-for-wildlife/ * Les then 1%of bags are recycled * It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one * Costs $4000 t process and recycle 1ton of plastic bags which then can be sold on the commodities for $32 * Study 1975 showed ocean going vessels together dumped 8million pounds of plastic annually * World landfills weren’t overflowing with plastic was because most * Every day over 10million new plastic bags are being created, that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year. * Every square mile of water contains 46,000 bits of plastic litter * And kill at least 100,000 birds, whale, seals, dolphins and turtles every year. * 450 years in water * Paper bag decomposes in 3-6weeks time
Plan
* Intro * Plastic bag content (what’s in them) * Environment(how is it harming animal) * resources * Recycled * Conclusion
Plastics are made from non-renewable natural resources such as crude oil, gas and coal. According to the 2002 Nolan ITU Report for Environment Australia on Plastic Shopping Bags - Analysis of Levies and Environmental Impacts; just
Every day over 10million new plastic bags are being created, that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year.
You may think plastic bags are harmless, but the every time you accept plastic bags at a check out, you are damaging the environment we live in.
For that one time you use that plastic bag, it can last from 500-100years.
You may think you are helping the environment when you are buying biodegradable bags, but they take just as long to degrade. But there is a way to help the en
As you may know plastic bags are a big problem in today’s society. They are damaging then environment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTurihxSTnI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4StKI8HkzSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9PC8s-r2Q&feature=related http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/01/plastic-bags-animals-making-the-wild-safe-for-wildlife/ * Les then 1%of bags are recycled * It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one * Costs $4000 t process and recycle 1ton of plastic bags which then can be sold on the commodities for $32 * Study 1975 showed ocean going vessels together dumped 8million pounds of plastic annually * World landfills weren’t overflowing with plastic was because most * Every day over 10million new plastic bags are being created, that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year. * Every square mile of water contains 46,000 bits of plastic litter * And kill at least 100,000 birds, whale, seals, dolphins and turtles every year. * 450 years in water * Paper bag decomposes in 3-6weeks time
Plan
* Intro * Plastic bag content (what’s in them) * Environment(how is it harming animal) * resources * Recycled * Conclusion
Plastics are made from non-renewable natural resources such as crude oil, gas and coal. According to the 2002 Nolan ITU Report for Environment Australia on Plastic Shopping Bags - Analysis of Levies and Environmental Impacts; just
References: (1) Worldwide Home Environmentalists Network home.vicnet.net.au/~when/plastic.htm (2) Environment Australia, Plastic Shopping Bags - Analysis of Levies and Environmental Impacts (Nolan ITU, 2002) www.deh.gov.au/industry/waste/plastic-bags/bags-analysis.html (2) http://debatewise.org/debates/1011-should-plastic-bags-be-banned#point_5108_headline (3)