Polythene bags must be banned!

Plastic bags pollute our land and water. Because they are so lightweight, plastic bags can travel long distances by wind and water. They litter our landscapes, get caught in fences and trees, float around in waterways, and can eventually make their way into the worlds oceans.

Plastic bags are made from non-renewable resources and contribute to climate change. The majority of plastic bags are made of polypropylene, a material that is made from petroleum and natural gas. Both of these materials are non-renewable fossil fuel-based resources and through their extraction and production, they create greenhouse gases, which contribute to global climate change.

The production of these bags is also very energy intensive. To produce nine plastic bags, it takes the equivalent energy to drive a car one kilometre (more than 0.5 miles).

Using these non-renewable resources to make plastic bags is very short-sighted, considering that the typical useful life of each plastic bag is about 12 minutes.

Plastic bags never break down. Petroleum-based plastic bags do not truly degrade. What does occur is that when out in the environment, the plastic breaks up into tiny little pieces that end up in the ocean to be consumed by wildlife. Today, there are an estimated 46, 000-1, 000, 000 plastic fragments floating within every square mile of our worlds oceans. Other governments are banning plastic bags, so yours should too or at least make people pay for them. To date, more than 40 countries and municipalities around the world have instituted plastic bag bans. The United Nations Environmental Programme Secretariat has recommended a ban on all plastic bags globally.

In my opinion, polyethene bags usage must be reduced in a systematic manner and the rules for regulating the use of polyethene bags must get stricter each and every month and people should be made aware of these rules and regulations in advance so that the transition to paper bags or other cloth bags becomes smoother and majority of plastic goes for recycling rather than in a dustbin.

Government should also create laws for using only certain type of plastics where you cannot replace it with any other material and shop owners must apply for permission to use it in a certain manner while obeying the laws made for disposal and recycling.

According to my point of view, polyethene bags must be banned because those bags are very harmful to our humans.

Nowadays we can see any were this polyethene bags are using more and those bags will through it out.

Some animals like cow goat etc eat that polythene bags so it will cause harmful diseases like cancer so don't through the polythene bags on the outside through it in the dustbin.

So keep our city clean and green.

When we through the polythene in dustbin the municipality will take the those used polythene bags will send to dumping yard. So don't use polythene bags and save the environment.

Hi friends as per my opinion, before banning the polythene bag we should find the replacement of polythene bag so that there is no difficulty for the common man. And government should well awareness program about the plastic ban. And rather than banning the plastic bag we can gradually decrease the use of it so that we get control over it.

Polythene Should not be banned, even government should have applied the hard penalty to everyone who provided polythene to customers. Because as for my opinion in India nobody really Want to understand anything instead of their profits when we put such steps like penalties and hard sentences then polyethene would have removed itself probably.

Hi friends,

As per my opinion, we should use polythene bags properly. We should not throw polythene bags here and there after using it. We should use polythene bags as much as possible to use. Polythene bags should use very carefully because if we ban the polythene bags then we have to use paper bags and it will cause deforestation in the environment.

The government should take strike action about it, but not only government shutdown do this we are also the members of the society so it is our duty to ki our surroundings clean and healthy.

At last, we should avoid plastic as much as we can do. And if are using polythene bags then we should carefully while using.

Polythene bags create such a pollution that is not created by a harmful chemical also. As it does not degrade or decompose in soil.

Yeah, definitely.

Polyethene bags should be banned as they create much disturbance for many other.

Many living organisms die due to its composted smell.

Due to the heavy disposition of plastic, it may pollute and contaminate the water.

Hi I'm Shreyash.

Coming to our topic, my opinion is that polythene bags must be banned because it is affecting our environment because when if we have used the polythene then we throw it and the sweepers is started burning that's why it affects the environment thank you.

Greetings to all,

As per the topic, polythene should must be banned. According to me, it must be banned as soon as possible. Our government should make a very strict rule on the consumption of polythene. And one more thing I want to add here is, people should also aware about how polythene is unbalancing our environment. Not Only government will focus on it people should also understand about it. Advertisement company should make an ad on the consumption of polythene like we see on Cancer. Two days ago I read in newspaper that Bengaluru announced a complete ban (gazette notification) that polyethylene bags is not allowed in any shops except plastic for export, packaging materials for use in forestry, milk packets and hospitals.