Environmental Science

Slide Presentation, Plastic Bags 1

Slide Presentation, Plastic Bags

Intro to Environmental Science

In a 1-2 page paper, using APA-style formatting, discuss three things you learned from the slide presentation on plastic bags If you were given the opportunity to address the public-at-large, what would be your recommendation regarding the use of plastic bags? In your closing remarks, include a short catchy phase, slogan, poem, or any other creative statement to emphasize your point of view.

To start this paper off I would like to say that I really didn’t know some of the things that were in the slide presentation on plastic bags. So three things that I learned from the presentation, well first of all less than one percent of bags are recycled and it costs more to recycle a plastic bag than it does to make a new one. The second thing that I learned is that over ten percent of the debris that washes up on the U.S. coastline are plastic bags. Thirdly, nearly 200 different species of sea life including dolphins, whales, turtles, and seals die due to plastic bags, they mistake them for food and eat them, and then they die.

If I were given the opportunity to address the public at large I would tell them not to ban plastic bags but to manage the use of them. There are many different ways to do this for example, switch to reusable shopping bags. Reusable shopping bags are made from renewable materials that conserve resources by replacing paper and plastic bags. These reusable bags are very handy and come in many different sizes, and styles, and are made from many different types of material. And when not using them, some reusable bags can be folded small enough to fit into your pocket, which makes it super handy.

Next I would say to them, try recycling your plastic bags. Everyone eventually uses plastic bags so why not recycle them. A lot of the grocery stores collect plastic bags to recycle so why not collect them up and turn them in to your local grocery store. So for my slogan or poem I would go with this,

Sometimes life can feel so drastic, especially while using all that plastic

Just get a bag that you can use again, and the environment will be your friend

So come on people make life fantastic, recycle those bags and manage your plastic.

So I hope that you like my work this week, because it was surely fun to complete.

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