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Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?: All The Points

The document discusses whether plastic bags should be banned. It presents 11 reasons for banning plastic bags related to environmental damage, pollution, harm to wildlife, and waste. It also lists 15 reasons against banning plastic bags, including that a tax may be sufficient, it impacts consumer choice and costs, and alternatives also have environmental impacts. The document includes perspectives both for and against banning plastic bags, with arguments around the environmental impacts of plastic bags and alternatives, and economic and consumer impacts of a ban.

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Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?: All The Points

The document discusses whether plastic bags should be banned. It presents 11 reasons for banning plastic bags related to environmental damage, pollution, harm to wildlife, and waste. It also lists 15 reasons against banning plastic bags, including that a tax may be sufficient, it impacts consumer choice and costs, and alternatives also have environmental impacts. The document includes perspectives both for and against banning plastic bags, with arguments around the environmental impacts of plastic bags and alternatives, and economic and consumer impacts of a ban.

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Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?

Plastic bags should be banned. Plastic is non-bio-degradable and thus causes pollution; as it
cannot be recycled, burning plastic diffuses harmful smoke. Plastic also emits some radiation.
Plastic bags can prove to be a choke hazard for small animals and people. Plastic water
bottles are also thought to be carcinogenic.

All the Yes points:
1. environmental damage
2. Repairing the Damage
3. The Great Waste
4. Non-biodegradable
5. They litter our streets
6. Plastic bags suffocate and kill
7. Wildlife concerns
8. Spread Awareness
9. Environment destroyement
10. Paper
11. It messes up future with too much plastic bags and ends ups that we might have to
leave earth.
All the No points:
1. No need to ban, add a tax
2. Used as a marketing ploy
3. Freedom of choice
4. people forget their re-useable bags
5. Causes expense to consumers in a time of recession
6. causes loss of jobs
7. People can and do recycle plastic bags
8. the environmental war needs to be won elsewhere
9. Loss of Technology
10. so what do we carry our shopping in?
11. what if u bought them and u livd far away and you frove to the shopping centre and
you 4 got youor plastic bags
12. other packaging
13. products making
14. PLASTIC BAGS DONT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT
15. NO,need to ban just reduce the use of plastic

environmental damage
Yes because…
Plastic bags for use by consumers in supermarkets and other stores should be made illegal. In
the UK alone, over 13 billion plastic bags are handed to consumers each year, representing a
substantial proportion of all floating marine
litter[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/13/plasticbags.pollution]]. More
than this, plastic bags are responsible for the deaths of huge numbers of marine species, who
mistake the bags for food. Consumers must accept that it is hugely wasteful, massively
unethical, and potentially deadly to continue using plastic bags. Supermarkets must be told by
the government that continued supply of plastic bags will result in large fines, whilst those
supermarkets who remove all their bags can be rewarded.

No because…
Of all the sins of supermarkets, it is hilarious that plastic bags are the main cause of people’s
concern. From sweat shops, to over production; things which have much more disasterous
consequences on the environment and people than misely plastic bags. The reality is, the
environment argument is a smokescreen for people to moan about litter. A more diligent
approach to parenting and teaching would solve this problem more effectively.

Repairing the Damage


Yes because…
Charging consumers for using plastic bags should not result in profit for the supermarkets.
Instead, any supermarkets who refuse to totally ban plastic bags, and charge their customers
for using the bags (eg. 10p for bag), should be made to pay a fine to local governments. This
revenue should then be used to repeal some of the damage supermarkets reap on the local
economy, environment, and society.
No because…
DESTROY PLASTIC BAGS NOW!

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