Plastic Bags

Plastic Bags

A surprising fact:

Australia uses around four billion plastc check-out

Bags a years.

And that’s only Australia-globally hundreds of

Billions are used!

We’ve all seen them ; clinging to trees,drifting along

Footpaths and swirling around oceans.

Danger to life

Produced plastic well during the process harmful

greenhous gases are emitted.

Environmentalists reckon thousands of birds and

Marine animals die each year because they swallow

The plastic or get caught up it.

In 2000,this whale died on a beach in Queensland-

6 metres of plastic was found in its tummy.

Polyethylene,or plastic , takes hundreds of years to

be destroyed so once plastic bags are made,they hang

around for a very long time.

Human to protect themselves

We haven’t always used them-back in the 60s it was

Paper bags and boxes.

And since people have realised how much of menace the

plastic ones can be reusable and biodegradable bags have

been introdced.

The Government make about laws

The Government will hold another meeting in six months.

By then we will have used another two billion

Plastic bags