Whats the problem with plastic bags?
Millions of plastic bags are handed out free every day around the world. They are cheap to make, lightweight, come in all sizes, are waterproof, and most of all, convenient. The flipside to this convenience is that plastic bags are practically indestructible. Plastic bags are dumped as landfill, end up as litter, or have barely a 1% chance of getting recycled into a new product. They fly, they float and they can clog drains reeking-havoc in major cities. The most disastrous is when they find there way into creeks and rivers, eventually ending up in the marine environment where they can remain for hundreds of years. Plastic photo degrades eventually breaking down into tiny plastic polymer molecules. These molecules then get distributed in our oceans, sea life, soils, land animals, and even us.
