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1.Why is polythene bag harmful to our body?
2.What is it made of?

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1. Polythene bags are classified as non-biodegradable material. On production or combustion of polythene bags, various harmful and toxic gases will  release that causes air pollution. These toxic gases from the atmosphere thus enters into human body when we respire and ultimately reaches to the lungs and aggravating respiratory ailments such as emphysema and asthma and causes headaches, damage in the nervous system, liver or kidney, in the reproductive and developmental system.

2. Polythene is a polymerised form of ethene and is used to make bags commonly called as plastic bags

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1. when the polyethylene is heated, all the bi products or chemicals of the bag go into the food. “These chemicals do not have an immediate or onset effect, but a person who eats such food may develop a running stomach,” 

And when there is an increased exposure and intake of food prepared using polyethylene bag as cover, the resultant effect is that the body will not be able to digest the polyethylene bag bi products, and the person will be exposed to enormous consequences such as the development of many cancers in the body.

Toxic effect
“When the body receives an external or foreign element, the body mechanism retaliates by sending it’s cells to fight the foreign, in-taken harmful components. And when the body cells are over powered, abdominal, kidney and other cancers are likely to occur,”

If it is children, they may experience intensive diarrohea because their body systems are weaker compared to those of the adults.

Polyethylene bag has the same effect on human beings, just as it has on the environment.

t since some chemicals used to manufacture polyethylene bags like chlorine have a bad scent when exposed to heat, breathing in such chemicals have negative consequences on human health, such as allergies.

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Very-low-density polye thylene (VL DPE)[edit] VL DPE is defined by a density range of 0.880–0.915 g/cm3. VLDPE is a substantially linear polymer with high levels of short-chain branches, commonly made by copolymerization of ethylene with short-chain alpha-olefins (for example, 1-butene, 1-hexene and 1-octene).
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