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What happens to the plastic you throw away?, A single paper bag can…
What happens to the plastic you throw away?
SOFIYAH
Cotton on the other hand degrades substantially in a few months and the paper bags break down completely in just 90 days.
Fortunately ,researchers estimate that 40% of HDPE bags are reused at least once for throwing out waste
HDPE bags are heat-resistant and insoluble, they stick around long after we were done with them
Recycling these bags also offsets their carbon footprint but it is no universally possible for each material
EISYA
Animals like seabirds get entangled in the mess as they mistake the brightly colored plastic bits as food. Which resulted in making them feel full when actually they’re not.
Most plastics dont biodegrade, which means they’re destined to break down into smaller and smaller pieces and might rotate in the sea eternally
poisining ecosystems and harming wildlife
TISYA
Plastic bag contributed an estimated 1.6 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A single paper bag can be responsible for about 5.5 kg of carbon dioxide. And the production of a single cotton tote emits an estimated 272 kg of carbon dioxide.
To sum up, buy less plastic. Second, when we do buy plastic, try to reuse it as much as possible. Third, for anything we can’t reuse, find out if it can be recycled in our area
What actually happens to the plastic we throw away? Hundreds of millions of tons of its plastic brethren, ends up in a landfill. Next, floats on a trickle that reaches a stream, a stream that flows into a river, and a river that reaches the ocean.
Which bag is best -- paper, plastic or cotton? Surprisingly, the answer is plastic bag since it more sturdier as it made of polyester, vinyl and other tough plastics. They’re durable and reusable, like cotton, but have a lower carbon footprint than cotton or paper.
FARA
They take an excruciatingly long time to decay, up to a thousand years. It degrades over time into smaller bits known as microplastics, which can be exceedingly harmful to the environment.
Plastic fragments can be mistaken for food by marine animals, and they may eventually infiltrate human food chain.
Plastic bags frequently wind up in landfills or in streams and oceans when they are discarded.
ALIA J
PRODUCTION
plastic made out of HDPE and 1 plastic bag contribute 1.6kg of CO2 the same amount as a car produce
Paper is made from wood pulp, a single paper bag can be responsible for about 5.5 kg of carbon dioxide.
growing cotton is an extremely energy and water intensive process. The production of a single cotton tote emits an estimated 272 kg of carbon dioxide.
ENVIROMENTAL IMPACT
if we reuse paper bag three times, it has a lower net impact than a single-use plastic bag
a cotton tote can similarly be lowered, if it’s reused 131 times
grocery bag is the best option we can get it at the grocey store for rm5
what actually happens to the plastic we throw away?
leachate, which can move into groundwater, soil and streams,1,000 years to decompose.
from strem to river to ocean trapped with millions more of plastic at Great Pacific Garbage Patch
NABIL
A single paper bag can actually be responsible 5.5 kilograms
melt the materials down and spin them into sheets of plastic
it’s contributed an estimated 1.6 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere##.
FOLDED INTO
BAGS
The typical thin and flimsy plastic bag is made of High-Density Polyethylene, commonly known as HDPE.
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COAL POWERED MACHINES
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