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 how do plastic bags affect our physical environment?

The effects of plastic bags on the environment are really quite devastating. While there are many objections to the banning of plastic bags based solely on their convenience, the damage to the environment needs to be controlled.

There is no way to strictly limit the effects of plastic bags on the environment because there is no disposal method that will really help eliminate the problem. While reusing them is the first step, most people either don't or can't based on store policies. They are not durable enough to stand up to numerous trips to the store so often the best that citizens can do is reuse them when following pooper scooper laws.

The biggest problem with this is that once they have been soiled the end up in the trash, which then ends up in the landfill or burned. Either solution is very poor for the environment. Burning emits toxic gases that harm the atmosphere and increase the level of VOCs in the air while landfills hold them indefinitely as part of the plastic waste problem throughout the globe.

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 Plastic bags are harmful to the environment, as they kill 200 thousand animals annually because the animals consider the plastic bag as food and this ruins their digestive system.  Another reason why animals  die from plastic bags is that when the plastic bags are left around sometimes the animals get strangled in them.   When the plastic bags block the drain pipes this can prevent water from traveling.  The streets look dirty when citizens throw plastic bags there without bothering what can happen to the environment. The plastic bags are non-biodegradable and it takes about 1000 years for them to degrade.

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 The effects of plastic bags on the environment are really quite devastating. While there are many objections to the banning of plastic bags based solely on their convenience, the damage to the environment needs to be controlled.

Plastic Bag Litter

Even when citizens try to manage their plastic bag disposal wind plays a role in carrying them away as litter. This litter is not biodegradable and thus where it lands it tends to stay for long period of time. A bag that is eventually ripped to shreds from high winds or other factors doesn't disappear but instead is spread in smaller amounts throughout the area. This can cause more problems as these smaller pieces are carried away through storm drains and often end up in the waterways.

The Effects of Plastic Bags in Waterways

One of the greatest problems is that an estimated 300 million plastic bags end up in the Atlantic Ocean alone. These bags are very dangerous for sea life, especially those of the mammal variety. Any hunting mammal can easily mistake the size, shape, and texture of the plastic bag for a meal and find its airway is cut off. Needless deaths from plastic bags are increasing every year.

The Effects of Plastic Bags on Land

The indefinite period of time that it takes for the average plastic bag to breakdown can be literally hundreds of years. Every bag that ends up in the woodlands of the country threatens the natural progression of wildlife. Because the break down rate is so slow the chances that the bag will harmlessly go away are extremely slim. Throughout the world plastic bags are responsible for suffocation deaths of woodland animals as well as inhibiting soil nutrients.Hope it helps :)

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Plastic bags affect our physical environment by:
1.it is not biodegradable
2. On burning produces lot of harmful gas with lot of toxins
3.it sometimes chokes up pipes and rivers causing water pollution
4.sometimes animals eat up these plastics and die
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Plastic bags harms environment in many ways :
? when plastic falls in rivers, they leave their toxic acid,which is harmful for us
? when plastic falls in sewage, it jams the gutters and blocks the water to flow through the sewage and it comes out and soil pollution
? when plastics are burn, they produce toxic acid in air, whuch harmful for us.
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Plastic bags tend to disrupt the environment in a serious way. They get into soil and slowly release toxic chemicals. They eventually break down into the soil, with the unfortunate result being that animals eat them and often choke and die.
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