Great idea and initiative, plastic bags end up in the ocean and are not biodegradable . Its great to see some supermarkets using paper bags or BYO bags !
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Zoe Shen
9 years ago
BAN PLASTIC BAGS!!!!!!!!
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Pia Bobeff
9 years ago
Is is up to someone to ban plastic bags so lets make that person us ban plastic bags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pippa Caillard
9 years ago
Plastic bags are everywhere in our environment. When we go to buy our groceries, we use plastic bags because they are easy. In fact, in our lives, it has become part of us. However, the convenience of these plastic bags come at a very high cost to the environment and badly affects human health. Several cities and states globally have begun banning the use of plastic bags while some have got restricted laws against the use of plastic bags because of the negative effects of the use of their usage. Victoria hasn’t banned them yet, and we are all expecting that to change.
There are approximately 46,000-1,000,000 plastic fragments floating within every square mile of the globes oceans. There is even one island made entirely out of plastic and rubbish, that most people don’t know about (find attached a picture of it), called the GPGP (Great Pacific garbage patch). It is double the size of Texas already, and is growing rapidly. Plastic bags disintegrate over 1,000 years. The number of plastic bags there outnumber the amount of marine life nearby there 6 to 1.
Plastic bags can kill and seriously harm animals, especially those that live in the ocean. We might throw them out, or even when they are in the tip, they can find their way down to our oceans, and wrap themselves around unsuspecting dolphins’ mouths, or other creatures can eat them. Over 1,000,000 seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals die a year.
Wikipedia defines pollution as:
‘Marine pollution occurs when harmful, or potentially harmful, effects result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms. Most sources of marine pollution are land based. The pollution often comes from nonpoint sources such as agricultural runoff, wind-blown debris and dust.’
Plastic bags can absorb toxic chemicals from other types of ocean pollution, therefore poisoning whoever eats it. Plastic does not degrade; instead, it breaks dow
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Pia Bobeff
9 years ago
BAN plastic bags. They are killing loads of animals and are making animals endangered. When you walk down the street and see plastic bags it's a terrible sight! So ban Plastic Bags!
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Emma Cook
9 years ago
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If we want to protect our environment and our animals within our environment, we need to act now! Don't wait until it is too late. We need to look to the future and how better plan for it, and all take a part in doing something for our world. If other states around Australia and other countries have the sense to take action, why can't Victoria? It seems like a no brainer!
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Grace Wong
9 years ago
We need to stop polluting the a earth I was in the city and I could see a huge line of just brown air. Things are getting worse and worse we need to do something about it.
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Claudia Jackson
9 years ago
Ban Them. Help our environment!!
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Samantha Sun
9 years ago
We need to ban the plastic bag. just by ourself.
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Isabelle Kim
9 years ago
Ban plastic bags now to help save the environment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck kiddo
Good Luck Guys!
Great cause
BYO bags people its such a waste!
We need to ban plastic bags!
Great idea and initiative, plastic bags end up in the ocean and are not biodegradable . Its great to see some supermarkets using paper bags or BYO bags !
BAN PLASTIC BAGS!!!!!!!!
Is is up to someone to ban plastic bags so lets make that person us ban plastic bags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plastic bags are everywhere in our environment. When we go to buy our groceries, we use plastic bags because they are easy. In fact, in our lives, it has become part of us. However, the convenience of these plastic bags come at a very high cost to the environment and badly affects human health. Several cities and states globally have begun banning the use of plastic bags while some have got restricted laws against the use of plastic bags because of the negative effects of the use of their usage. Victoria hasn’t banned them yet, and we are all expecting that to change. There are approximately 46,000-1,000,000 plastic fragments floating within every square mile of the globes oceans. There is even one island made entirely out of plastic and rubbish, that most people don’t know about (find attached a picture of it), called the GPGP (Great Pacific garbage patch). It is double the size of Texas already, and is growing rapidly. Plastic bags disintegrate over 1,000 years. The number of plastic bags there outnumber the amount of marine life nearby there 6 to 1. Plastic bags can kill and seriously harm animals, especially those that live in the ocean. We might throw them out, or even when they are in the tip, they can find their way down to our oceans, and wrap themselves around unsuspecting dolphins’ mouths, or other creatures can eat them. Over 1,000,000 seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals die a year. Wikipedia defines pollution as: ‘Marine pollution occurs when harmful, or potentially harmful, effects result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms. Most sources of marine pollution are land based. The pollution often comes from nonpoint sources such as agricultural runoff, wind-blown debris and dust.’ Plastic bags can absorb toxic chemicals from other types of ocean pollution, therefore poisoning whoever eats it. Plastic does not degrade; instead, it breaks dow
BAN plastic bags. They are killing loads of animals and are making animals endangered. When you walk down the street and see plastic bags it's a terrible sight! So ban Plastic Bags!
If we want to protect our environment and our animals within our environment, we need to act now! Don't wait until it is too late. We need to look to the future and how better plan for it, and all take a part in doing something for our world. If other states around Australia and other countries have the sense to take action, why can't Victoria? It seems like a no brainer!
We need to stop polluting the a earth I was in the city and I could see a huge line of just brown air. Things are getting worse and worse we need to do something about it.
Ban Them. Help our environment!!
We need to ban the plastic bag. just by ourself.
Ban plastic bags now to help save the environment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!