If you want to know more about the horror of plastic bags, you have to delve to the very root…

Plastics are products of petroleum. They come from polymers by virtue of ‘biogeochemical’ manipulation. One thing plastic bags and paper bags have in common is that they are both recyclable. In recycling plastic bags, they are melted and reformed. Re-melting is the process that sterilizes the plastic. After this process, plastic can be used to create hospital products.

Plastic can be recycled several times until unfit or brittle. The disadvantage of plastics, however, is that in the process of recycling, dioxins are given off. These destroy you and your environment. This is why plastic bags are considered monsters – ogres that destroy the environment and health.

Another drawback with plastic bags is that they do not compost. There is no such thing as biodegradable plastic. That phrase is merely made to deceive. Plastic products stay in landfill for centuries. Don’t be amazed when you see your plastic wares in your landfill still whole and strong. They don’t break down.

Perhaps, you should start worrying about the 450 trillion plastic bags that business is providing. Where do they go? Well, hanging around or under. Just imagine fast forwarding a few years. We could be buried in plastic bags.

Do you believe that it’s time to think about your children’s children? Don’t you think it’s time to consider reusing bags or opting for paper bags, which are biodegradable? When it comes to strength, paper bags are now vastly improved compared to the older version. Nowadays, paper bags are tough and cannot be easily torn.

When it comes to durability, paper bags already have the ability to be reused over and over again. In fact, they can even withstand snow exposure without damaging them.

When it comes to capacity, you may not know this but paper bags can hold four times the content of plastic bags. Hence, a paper bag can save you from carrying multiple plastic bags simultaneously.

Both paper bags and plastic bags destroy natural resources and the ecosystem. Both contribute to greenhouse gasses. However, plastic bags are more hazardous. When recycling or incinerating plastic, dioxins are produced and sent off into the air. These dioxins are the ones responsible for ruining the ecosystem and the environment in general. Only one to three percent of all plastic bags are recycled. The rest are found in the streams, floating on the sea and flying around the streets.

The best solution is the use of reusable paper bags. Paper bags do not pollute the environment the way plastic bags do. Also, they are biodegradable. Paper bags compost and become fertilizer or material for brick thus eventually becoming useful.

In time, paper bags have improved a lot. Materials are better, designs more diversified, shapes more experimental, quality more advanced and recycling process more environment-friendly.

Reusable paper bags are the best alternative to save your ailing environment as well as your poor health conditions. When will you take part in this cause? When it is already too late to react? Or when the world is already a big mess?

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